'The Young People Are Taking Everything Over Now, and It's Going to Be Great'
"When writing My Friends--when I was really stuck and struggling with my confidence--I went with my 12-year-old daughter to The English Bookshop in Stockholm. It was a Saturday, it was freezing cold outside, and the place was absolutely PACKED with teenagers. They were all insanely passionate about books I'd never heard about. My daughter went on and on about book genres I didn't even know existed. Then all of a sudden, one young woman asked a staff member, 'Do you have White Nights by Dostoevsky?'
"I remember standing there in this small indie bookshop just thinking, 'Whoever is saying young people don't read anymore is out of their goddamn minds.' Whenever I feel lost in the industry part of the book industry, I think about that Saturday. The young people are taking everything over now, and it's going to be great."
