Thirteen Ways of Looking at the NovelOver her 20 year career, Jane Smiley has written many kinds of novelsmystery, comedy, historical fiction, epic. But when her impulse to write faltered after 9 11, she decided to approach novels from a different angle: she read 100 of them, from the 1000 year old Tale of Genji to the recent bestseller White Teeth by Zadie Smith, from classics to little known gems. With these books and her experience of reading them as her reference, Smiley discusses