{"id":858,"date":"2015-03-10T20:34:22","date_gmt":"2015-03-11T00:34:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/crafttheshow.com\/?p=858"},"modified":"2015-03-10T20:34:22","modified_gmt":"2015-03-11T00:34:22","slug":"kanon-brings-questions-not-answers-in-visit-to-columbus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.crafttheshow.com\/?p=858","title":{"rendered":"Kanon Brings Questions, Not Answers, In Visit to Columbus"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Tyler Clementi<\/p>\n

Some writers claim to have all the answers. Joseph Kanon<\/a>\u00a0isn\u2019t one of those writers. The NYT bestselling author is bringing more questions than answers with him to Columbus when he visits Thurber House Evenings with Authors<\/a>\u00a0on Thursday, March 12.<\/p>\n

In his career thus far, Kanon has focused on the period shortly following the end of World War II. He explains the period as \u201can endlessly dramatic\u201d time because of WWII\u2019s significant place in western history.<\/p>\n

More than just important or dramatic, Kanon characterizes WWII as \u201cthe real hinge of the [twentieth] century.\u201d<\/p>\n

Kanon\u2019s newest novel, Leaving Berlin<\/i>, explores Soviet-occupied East Germany in 1948. \u201cThis is a society on its knees, and, consequently, lying is second nature. Survival is everything.\u201d Within this scene, Kanon sees and creates situations of immense moral compromise.<\/p>\n

Through the conflicts approached by his characters, Kanon poses difficult moral questions. \u201cWhere do you draw your own line? Where do you create your own personal morality?\u201d Kanon finds the questions interesting, but necessarily offers no answers.<\/p>\n

While his morally ambiguous writing has stayed within a fairly tight chronological window, Kanon has taken his fiction back and forth across the Atlantic Ocean.<\/p>\n

The author recounts a recent visit to Berlin with his wife: \u201cAs we were walking along, I said, \u2018Oh, this is the flat where Irene would\u2019ve lived,\u2019 and \u2018This is the place where so-and-so worked.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

Kanon\u2019s wife looked to him and responded, \u201cYou know a lot of people here: it\u2019s just that you\u2019ve made them up.”<\/p>\n

The story exemplifies Kanon\u2019s interest in people within specific settings. \u201cIt\u2019s important for me to really place people.\u201d Understanding the places that characters encounter makes them real.<\/p>\n

\u201cI find that all of my books, in one way or another, begin with place.\u201d Places that Kanon doesn\u2019t know about are the ones that intrigue him. Places he understands are less interesting: \u201cI live in New York. I have no intention of writing about it. In a sense, I know about it.\u201d<\/p>\n

On March 12, Kanon brings his morally intriguing fiction to a new and mysterious location when he’s a\u00a0featured author at the\u00a0Thurber House Evenings with Authors<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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