And now for a word from the author…

If you happen to be in the Chicago area, you can tune in this afternoon to hear me talk about The Icon Thief on Bill Moller’s show on WGN Radio 720, starting around 12:45 pm CT. You can also listen to it live online. Not sure if there’s going to be a podcast version, but I’ll post it if I can. (And if, by chance, you’re just joining us now, you can learn more about the novel here and here.)

(Update: The interview is now online! You can listen to it here.)

Yo-Yo Ma, detective

I always look at a piece of music like a detective novel. Maybe the novel is about a murder. Well, who committed the murder? Why did he do it? My job is to retrace the story so that the audience feels the suspense. So that when the climax comes, they’re right there with me, listening to my beautiful detective story. It’s all about making people care about what happens next.

—Yo-Yo Ma, quoted by Jonah Lehrer in Imagine