Oprah's Picks

After Cormac McCarthy's The Road, Oprah Winfrey's picked Jeffrey Eugenides luminous novel, Middlesex, as her new club selection. (During an interview with McCarthy, she asked him if his novel was "a love story to your son". Nothing like a question like that to thrill her audience.) As for Eugenides, he also has an essay in The New Yorker, about a real-life movie drive-in experience.