If the White House was anti-book before (Vincent Bugliosi's The Prosecution of George W. Bush for Murder probably isn't in the Lincoln Bedroom, for example), this news isn't going to change any minds there. Curtis Sittenfeld's forthcoming novel American Wife is reportedly a very thinly veiled reimagining of goings-on in the White House's master bedroom. The novel follows a good Wisconsin girl who becomes First Lady and learns that the position demands some compromises--both moral and otherwise.Radar magazine has a few choice (and not work-safe) excerpts and a brief review: "The result is a masterful highbrow-lowbrow mash-up that satisfies as ass-kicking literary fiction and juicy gossip simultaneously."
And yes, the book will be published just in time for the Republican convention, so you'll have something to read while you stand in St Paul protesting. Pre-order a copy today.--David E
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