Last Tuesday went to meet Mark Childress at the MPL Readers & Writers event. Well worth the time investment, he told us more about his bio and writing and some interesting questions even got asked. He read a chapter from One Mississippi and ( I think ) sold some books.

Carl Hiassen's book Nature Girl just came out - a one day read if it's a weekend.

Just finished reading Lilith by Salamanca. Read it! They made a movie out of it with Warren Beatty that tried to rip off Splendor in the Grass, but its really better than that. The first part the book, about small towns, reminded me of the Hired Girls section of My Antonia.

Also; I just reread The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit by Sloan Wilson, amazingly contemporary. If you leave out the parts about WWII it could have come out last Sept.