Prairie Lights, Iowa City, Iowa, recently lured longtime book buyer and bookseller extraordinaire Paul Ingram (r.) out of retirement to sit down for a conversation with Edward Carey to talk about Little (Riverhead), his new novel based on the life of Marie Tussaud. The two discussed the world of Madame Tussaud's famed wax figures (Carey once worked at the legendary London Museum, protecting the figures from disrespectful tourists), the dark thrills of Dickensian literature, and what a discovery it is when one first picks up a book and experiences the infinite possibilities of an author's imagination, ink and paper.
