When I fall in love with an author – which I do with some regularity – it is passionately, deeply, obsessively. I set out immediately to devour every literary morsel he or she has ever written. Typically I cannot contain my enthusiasm and extol the author’s virtues to everybody I know, and not a few that I don’t know, as if I had personally discovered this rare talent and was responsible for his success. This can be embarrassing, as I have been known to “discover” brilliant w