Erik Larson on THE SPLENDID AND THE VILE
\u201cBelieve me, there probably was not a day that went by where I didn't say to myself,\xa0What on earth am I doing? And why did I take this on?\xa0Early on in the process, I was talking with a Churchill expert over breakfast in Washington, DC, and he was basically asking me,\xa0Why on earth are you doing this?\xa0And my answer to him, which stuck throughout the whole project, is that it's all in the telling.\u201d\xa0The Splendid and the Vile spent most of 2020 and \u201821 on top of the bestseller charts, and it\u2019s just out in paperback. Erik Larson joins us on the show to talk about the craft of writing, how his background in journalism prepared him for a career writing bestselling books, how he conducts his research, the fiction that inspires him, the surprises he uncovered while writing about one of the world\u2019s most-documented men, and more.
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