No longer in NYC

If I were in LA tonight, I’d go to this panel — with Mark Sarvas and Veronique de Turenne, among others — at Skylight Books on the new NBCC recommended list. More people talking about more good books is definitely a good thing. But what to call the list is turning out to be tough. The current name — its second — is Good Reads; given the popularity of the book-based social networking site GoodReads, it might be better called something else.

Instead I am in Pittsburgh, where the lack of food in the house is made up for by the plethora of papers to be graded. More soon.