Incidental Inventions

“Fifty-one columns, short in length but long on wisdom” from the bestselling author of My Brilliant Friend , an HBO original series ( Minneapolis Star-Tribune ). Collected here for the first time are the seeds of future novels, the timely reflections of this internationally beloved storyteller, the abiding preoccupations of a writer who has been called “one of the great novelists of our time” ( The New York Times ). “This is my last column, after a year that has scared and inspired me .&nbs