After Cormac: Winfrey’s next book choice

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The next writer who can now plan on an early retirement and the purchase of a yacht or summer home is Jeffrey Eugenides, whose ‘Middlesex’ has been selected by Oprah Winfrey for her book club’s summer read.

Eugenides’ novel--about a Greek American family in Michigan and its hermaphrodite child, Cal/Calliope--follows Oprah’s recommendation of ‘The Road’ by Cormac McCarthy. Like McCarthy’s novel, ‘Middlesex’ received a Pulitzer Prize (in 2003) for fiction. Its current rank on Amazon.com is 541, but that’s certainly going to change. There’s only one direction to go, and that’s up.

This afternoon, Oprah talks to McCarthy in an interview much anticipated--and thought impossible, until Oprah managed it--by the literati. More on that later.
--Nick Owchar