… Coffee, sex, and ‘Game of Thrones’: A chat about ‘Balzac’s Lives’ … Coffee, sex, and ‘Game of Thrones’: A chat about … a book about Balzac for some 30 years, but I didn’t know how to go about it. There are already some good biographies. … is like “the Office of the Census. But much more fun.” How so? Once he decided that all his novels were going to be …