Soup and Salad: A Conversation with Alex Gilvarry, World Book Night, Inauguration Poetry, Story Prize Finalists, Jeffrey Eugenides' Advice to Young Writers

On today's menu:


1.  At Barnes and Noble's Discover Great New Writers blog, Alex Gilvarry (who's certainly a great new writer you should discover) and I have a conversation about Woody Allen, Mel Brooks, Vladimir Nabokov's Pale Fire , the politics of war literature, and what it's like to date a fashion model (Alex, not me).  We talk about a whole bunch of other stuff, too.  Check it out , and then go pick up a copy of Alex's debut novel From the Memoirs of a Non-Enemy Combatant . ...