Mostly what I’m reading is Doris Lessing’s The Golden Notebook (1962), which is 600+-pages and fascinating. I’m at about page 430 and will finish by the time we discuss it in bookgroup next week. Otherwise, online: >> We’ve Got A Ticket To Read in The Observer, about the French Metro-riding public’s reading tastes. Robert McCrum is scanning riders in search of evidence of “existentialists in the Sartrean sense;” doesn’t find too much of that, but reports what Parisians are reading and how it differs from Londoners. Appeals to the voyeur in me. >>Exclusive Interview with ‘The Wire’ creator David Simon, … Continue reading What I’m Reading: Policy and Mediocrity, Wine, Metro Readers