"Mainly, we've been talking about the novel from a kind of formalist point of view... But I'm also very interested in the novel in relation to history."
"I'm interested to some extent in seeing how one thing leads to another. I think it's a useful fiction, editorially, to work on: what are the echoes and resonances going back and forth between books and places and times?"
"Stranger Than Fiction: Lives of the Twentieth-Century Novel... traces through lines of craft and theme across 33 novels, beginning with a prelude on Dostoyevsky and ending with Sebald's Austerlitz."
"If Frank is disappointed that NYRB has published just two of the novels he examines in his book, that disappointment is misplaced... Any publisher to put out both Proust's Swann's Way and Grossman's Life and Fate has a backlist to brag about."
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