Like, Wao!

Hi again, folks.

Many of you have probably already heard that the summer reading for the incoming class of 2013 is Junot Diaz's book The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao. The book was chosen from an excellent list of finalists, but I will now freely admit that I was pulling for this title all along. It's a challenging but fun read, and I think it will make for a great campus-wide conversation in the fall.

Diaz was on campus a few months ago, giving what I understand was a fantastic reading. Any of you who missed it can go to the NPR website and hear a clip of the author reading a passage from Oscar Wao. Check it out, and if you like what you hear you'll find plenty of copies of the book here at the store.