Dan Chaon Doesn't Want to Hear About Your Middle-Class Norwegian Life

The novelist and story writer, whose new book is “Sleepwalk,” wishes more authors would write about ‘anything other than themselves. I love writers … who use some aspects of their own experience to tell a far-out tale.’

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