Does Where You Live Make a Difference in How and What You Write?

www­.nytimes.com - Each week in Bookends, two writers take on questions about the world of books. This week, Mohsin Hamid and Thomas Mallon discuss how where they’ve lived has affected their work.  J. R. R. Tolkien’s “The Hobbit” might have read a little differently had he been a resident of Osaka instead of Oxfordshire.