The Times Magazine reports President Obama "he had become sick enough of briefing books to begin reading a novel in the evening" -- Joseph O'Neill's Netherland, which is set in part at a house on Rugby Road just off Cortelyou.Maybe "Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao" is next....
Tuesday, May 5, 2009
Obama reading Netherland
Interesting tidbit brought to my attention via the Ditmas Park Blog:
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He's an eclectic reader. Here's a Times article on books that influenced his writing:
ReplyDeletehttp://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/19/books/19read.html