Digression

My wife is an English instructor, and she and her office mate decided to challenge each other to read every Pulitzer Prize-winning novel this year. The list dates back to the turn of the century and thus is fairly hefty. I perused it to see what I had read off of it and found I had only read 11 of them. I would have sworn it was more, and there were many on there I should have read or, even worse, are sitting on the many bookshelves all around my house. But here's what I have read from the list:

2007 The Road by Cormac McCarthy

2004 The Known World by Edward P. Jones

2001 The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay by Michael Chabon

1986 Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry

1984 Ironweed by William Kennedy

1967 The Fixer by Bernard Malamud

1963 The Reivers by William Faulkner

1961 To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee

1953 The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway

1952 The Caine Mutiny by Herman Wouk

1939 The Yearling by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

All great reads, but I especially recall Ironweed, Lonesome Dove, and Kavalier & Clay.