On the same day that Oprah airs an interview with notorious recluse Cormac McCarthy (who's next, J.D. Salinger?) she announces that 2007 speaker Jeffrey Eugenides' "Middlesex" will be her current Book Of The Month Club Selection. "It will grab you from the first sentence, I promise," said Oprah. Congratulations to Eugenides for scoring the literary world's equivalent of the bonus round: a bestseller that gets re-marketed to a new audience by the woman who has changed how-and what-middle America reads, and whose blessing guarantees a return to the top of the charts. Meanwhile, Eugenides has a new piece in the Summer Movies section of the June 11 & 18 New Yorker Magazine.
KWLS Board Member Judy Blume and Jeffey Eugenides at the 2007 Seminar
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