Publishers Weekly calls Fobbit "an instant classic"

Things have been a little topsy-turvy in my head since I got the email from my editor at Grove/Atlantic a few days ago giving me a heads up about Publishers Weekly's pending starred-and-boxed review of Fobbit .  I'm not a man who cries easily, but I'll admit that when I finished reading those 264 words of praise I had to reach for a Kleenex.  I was living every debut novelist's dream, sitting bull's-eye in the moment for which I'd been waiting nearly 30 years.

Since the review was emb...