Carlos Ruiz Zafón on Inspiration, Mystery, and Women

  Three-dimensional movies and multiplayer video games may be flashy, but, according to Rick Kleffel, one technology has them beat – the age-old mechanism of reading. Reading, he said, is “a primal force in which we the readers collaborate with the authors to create characters, adventures, empathy and memories not unlike those of our real lives.” Kleffel, who runs the book review site The Agony Column, visited Zócalo to chat with Carlos Ruiz Zafón, author of The Angel’s Game and The Shadow of the Wind, whom he called “one of …