books are in!

Word from the wonderful people in Philly is that copies of the book are in, and ready to be shipped to their new readers' homes--including me! I can't wait to see a real live copy.

Meanwhile, I am utterly captivated by the Jonathan Franzen glasses theft hullaballo. I keep imagining it as the opening of a David Lodge novel, or perhaps a scene in a Coen brothers movie. There's something even more profound in the whole thing, perhaps, but I have not quite figured out what that might be.