06 May 2010

Spotted on the subway: That's a bingo


Writer Lauren Bans, of Salman Rushdie fan fame, snapped this photo of a woman reading GOING ROGUE on the subway, "book cover removed so peeps wouldn't be all 'judgery.'" Too late!

I had been waiting for this to happen; since it was on a train I take a lot, I guess I'll never know how close I was. So what should be my next "Where's Waldo" subway sighting goal? It can be an incongruous book or an incongruous combination of book and reader.

1 comment:

Wade Garrett said...

I will never understand this. Even if I liked Sarah Palin as a person or as a politician, I would not want to read her book.

The right wing reads a lot - their book clubs move hundreds of thousands of copies of the shit that Hannity and O'Reilly 'write.' But it would be nice if they read more books by real thinkers, instead of the blowhards they already spend hours a day watching on Fox News.