What’s the best run of great books you’ve read consecutively? Books that one after another blew you away, back-to-back, so many in a row. What were you reading? Where were you living at the time, and under what circumstances?
Eleanor Henderson talks about one such hot streak, and a novel she read in the midst of it, Michael Chabon’s The Adventures of Kavalier and Clay, that wound up having a big impact on her writing.

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