I Can't Wait to Read This

Some (incompetent? insubordinate?) bookseller at the bookstore in very close proximity to my office (which shall, of course, remain anonymous) made the mistake of placing Denis Johnson's new novel, Tree of Smoke, out on the stacks a week earlier than its release date--and I can't thank her/him enough.

With all due respect, fuck Harry Potter. THIS is the one book I've wanted to read all year, the tome I've wanted to forcefully sacrifice my sleep for and to read well into the wee hours of the evening and early morning on a caffeine-infused bender of words. I want to inhale this book. Devour it.

And now I get to do so an entire week early--and right before a three-day weekend. Happy summer, indeed.

Thank you, you beautiful renegade bookseller. Thank you.