Last week, an editor at the Times wrote and asked for my ...

Last week, an editor at the Times wrote and asked for my New Year's reading resolutions. After I scraped myself off the floor, I submitted about a paragraph's worth of resolutions, which got whittled down to two sentences (with a hyperlink for Gary Shteyngart, and none for me, because, other than the bestseller list, what would they link to? The Times, she does not cover my books).

Here's the in-full, annotated version of what I submitted:

In 2010, I will not reflexively assume that all-male b...