How do you contend with the hubris of thinking anyone has or should have any interest in what you have to say about anything?
Russell Shorto: I have a notion that the smaller a story is, the bigger it is. That is, the more you zoom in on something, the more universal it is. So if I focus on one historical figure very closely, I believe (hope) what results will be of interest because, at heart, we’re all about the same things. Love, betrayal, striving.
—From a lithub.com post. Russell Shorto is the author of Smalltime: A Story of My Family and the Mob.
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