PEN/Faulkner Award-Winner: And Why Shouldn’t The President Read My Book?

Barack Obama recently endorsed PEN winner Joseph O’Neill’s book. “Novelists should believe strongly enough in what they do to say, “What’s the big deal? Why shouldn’t the president read my book?’ O’Neill said. ‘Surely it’s not contended by anybody that the only valuable information about the world is to be found in briefing books’.”