Beach Reads

Kudos to Salon for its Summer Reading Series. C and I were talking about this last week, kind of, about famous authors and what they're reading (for an example, check out Nick Hornsby's column in Believer magazine, "What I'm Reading"). But why famous authors? Why can't us not-so-famous authors or even nonauthors contribute? Do famous authors have better tastes, better influences, or just better luck? A small nitpick: why start out the series with a review of War and Peace? That's like drunken me, in my college years, always asking the party hosts to play Pink Floyd, aka instant party killer.