Mark Tompkins is the founder of the Aspen Writers’ Network and serves on the board of Aspen Words, a program of the Aspen Institute. Born in Texas of Irish ancestry, Tompkins lives in Boston, Houston, and Aspen. The Last Days of Magic is his first novel.
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Ethan Williams came to Beijing looking for a reset. A year abroad. A teaching job. Distance from the life he left behind. It sounded simple enough. But nothing about China is simple. Dropped into the electric chaos of modern Beijing, Ethan fin... SEE MORE