Lisa Does a McSweeney

My blog friend, Lisa Samson, has decided to take on the Advanced Placement Reading List--she just doesn't know it as such. Instead she's called it "The Year of Reading Dangerously." And it's been great to hear the thoughts of an intelligent and fun grown woman give her take on all kinds of books many of us slogged through (or have forced others to slog through) in advanced high school or regular college lit courses.

But not only is Lisa a grown-up, she's a writer. And the point of her dangerous reading has been to (re)discover what makes the great writers great. Certainly, she's decided, those qualities are not what many editors would be looking for these days.

I recommend visiting her take on Heart of Darkness--which could have been given a McSweeney title, "A CBA Editor Responds to Mr. Conrad."

Happy Reading, folks.