Between Realism and Something Else: An Interview with Ron Nyren "I loved researching this book, finding out about chronophotography, pictorialism, the 1906 earthquake, and the artists of the time." Ron Nyren talks with Margot Livesey about his debut novel, The Book of Lost Light. When I suggested to Ron Nyren that we have a conversation about his absorbing debut novel, The Book of Lost Light, I realized that I could no longer remember when he and I first met. Our lives were already intertwined through several writerly connections, notably Andrea Barrett, Charles Baxter, and his spouse, Sarah Stone. Ron reminded me that he and Sarah had come to a reading I gave in San Francisco. The three of us wound up taking a walk near the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, which contains a number of the remarkable Eadweard Muybridge photographs that play a vital part in