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Zachary Lazar

(1968) Novelist

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Zachary Lazar is a novelist.

Quick Facts About Zachary Lazar

Born: January 1, 1968
Profession: Novelist

About Zachary Lazar

[Wikidata] novelist, author... | [Wikipedia] Zachary Lazar is an American novelist. Lazar was born in Phoenix, Arizona. He earned an A.B. degree in Comparative Literature from Brown University (1990) and M.F.A from the University of Iowa Iowa Writer's Workshop (1993). In 2015, he was the third recipient of the John Updike Award from the Americ

Quotes by Zachary Lazar

Once I got interested in organized crime, and, specifically, Jewish organized crime, I got very interested in it. I have learned that,…

Bigs

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What's invaluable about actually going to the places you want to write about are the random accidental things that happen. Random, accidental…

Best way

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I love the rabbit hole. I spend a lot of time looking at images, Google mapping, etc. I also love to read…

Boring

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“For everything man does has significance. An evil act will generally cause some disruption or negative reaction in the vast system of…

Karma

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“In writing this book, I have come to feel like a kind of immigrant in my own life, inhabiting a world of…

Book

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In hindsight, I must have been looking for a way to write about Jewishness that somehow managed to minimize irony and self-deprecation.

Has beens

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I try to do as little as possible without looking like an idiot. Research is fun and easy. Writing is hard. So…

Easy

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It's changed dramatically in our lifetimes. Communism is gone, so now the global war is framed in religious terms. Fundamentalist religion is…

Casts

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“They wanted you to grow up into some helpless combination of old person and infant. They wanted you to have a house…

Life work

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