We were pleased to host Pauline Chen, one of our favorite VQR contributors, yesterday for her reading as part of the Virginia Festival of the Book. Pauline read to a packed audience at the UVA Bookstore and we hope to have a podcast of her reading up within the next week. (To the right, Pauline poses with VQR editor Ted Genoways.) Later in the day, Pauline taped an interview with C-SPAN’s Booknotes BookTV and we’re told the interview should be broadcast in the coming weeks. Check their website for more info.
Pauline’s book Final Exam: A Surgeon’s Reflections on Mortality is doing extraordinarly well for a first book. It’s already made an appearance on the NYT Bestseller list and we hear it’s gone into its fifth printing. We love it when a talented and genuinely nice person gets the success they deserve!