Today, and today only, I am stepping away from my Dawkinsian, Hitchensesque, Harrisite atheism to proclaim my belief in God. That's because today He/She/It did something right and gave my fabulously talented friend Katie Christensen the 2008 PEN/Faulkner Award for her amazing novel, The Great Man. Buy it, read it, love it. Nuff said.
But wait...there's more! Here's an article from today's Washington Post, with a really lovely photo of Katie, taken by (awww) her husband.
In which I mostly write about books, movies, and TV. An all-purpose spoiler alert: Sometimes I will talk about these works on the assumption that the reader's already read or seen them, so if you haven't, be forewarned.