My dear friend Peter Sagal* has a good discussion going on his blog about what qualities constitute the perfect novel. He's not asking about best novels -- but rather books that are marvels of structure and technique that you find...
The biggest crowd I saw today was for Roy Blount Jr. and Peter Sagal, who drew several hundred people to the Senate chamber -- so many that people were turned away, and some who made it in had to be...
After a nice chat with Susan Orlean (actual detail to follow, I promise), I have slipped into the Roy Blount/Peter Sagal session. Which took some doing, because a perturbed trooper was shooing the overflow crowd out of the Senate chamber....
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