Sorry, Michael, the eye on the cover of Infected in your previous post is just too creepy. I swear, it follows me around my office.
Fortunately, tonight's Pulitzer Prize awards provided me with the material for a blog post, which will push that image off of my monitor. The fiction winner for 2008 is The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, by Junot Diaz. This book was included on almost all of the "best of 2007" round-ups last year, but I never got around to reading it. Now I'm convinced that I need to carve out some time and see what all the hoopla is about (cough, cough, I think I'm coming down with a bug).
However, I can't pass up this opportunity to recommend the 2007 Pulitzer Prize winner for fiction, Cormac McCarthy's The Road. I know there are still some holdouts who have not yet read it. It was my favorite book of 2006, and possibly one of my top-ten of all time. Yes, it's a post-apocalyptic novel, and yes, it's dark, but it's also hopeful. And beautiful. It's one of those books that stays with you for a long, long time, and you know that's a rare thing. So go read it. And then read Oscar Wao.
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The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz
Riverhead hardcover, $24.95
ISBN: 978-1-594-48958-7
The Road by Cormac McCarthy
Vintage trade paperback, $14.95
ISBN: 978-0-307-38789-9
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