But that would bore me. It is unusual that a book should have that long a life - the kind of a book, I mean, that doesn't plumb the depths of human nature. I think it's because it describes things as they are. I tried to be very truthful and literal about describing things as they are. It's surprising how seldom that's done.
Novelists do it - good novelists.
They often tell us more about the real world than history does. I'm about novels that were contemporary when they were written. I think that's the virtue of Death and Life . By contrast, The Nature of Economies is speculative, which lends itself to the dialogue format. It's also optimistic.