Somebody told me last night that every single Ingram warehouse is completely out of stock of The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay. Could that be a clue? It's the right price point for the book Oprah Winfrey has selected for her audience to read after The Road, which is certainly a point in its favor...

You know what else is a $15 Picador paperback, though? Strange Piece of Paradise. Now, we've been told that Oprah chose a fiction book, so if we had to place our bet between Michael Chabon and Terri Jentz, we'd go with Chabon, but it was worth a thought.

(Of course, if you got the headline, you're one step ahead of everyone else in America, you clever thing!)