Last month, a school district committee in Utah decided that the Bible should be removed from elementary and middle school libraries.
Unless youโre a fantasy fan, you likely havenโt heard of Brandon Sanderson โ which is odd, because the man has written more words and sold more books than just about any living genre author not named King or Rowling. Even so, youโll enjoy this curveball of a profile, in which Wiredโs Jason Kehe tries to distinguish between the man and his wor(l)ds.
This story has an ending, I promise, and Iโm sprinting toward it, as if to a vacation. Like the best of Sandersonโs endings, my ending should surprise you. Because, you see, Sanderson actuallyย didย say one thing to me,ย one miraculous thing, that stuck, that I remember, these five months later, with perfect clarity. Just seven words, but true ones. Youโre not ready for them just yet. You need more story first. For now, there is only Sanderson, both wordful and wordless, the best-selling writer no writer writes about because writers only know how to talk about words. Sandersonโs readersโloving, legionโcare about something else.