I guess because I’m a writer, people often ask me what I’m reading. I’m about to head out on a book tour that will last about a month – I’ll be blogging from wherever I am – and on a book tour I spend a lot of time in airports and planes and motels.  I also don’t do much other writing because tours are so intense – interviews, readings, etc. So I try and read good books to stay focused and settled.

Right now, I’m reading the above  books – Michael Lewis is a favorite writer of mine, and his new book “Boomerang,” on the collapse of over-leveraged western economies, is riveting. It even manages to be funny, though the message is pretty sobering. He starts by showing us the financial catastrophes in Greece, Iceland and Ireland and just when we are gratetful not to be them, he shows us that we are them.  I am loving “The Night Circus” by Erin Morgenstern, a magical work. I much loved “The Last Werewolf” by Glenn Duncan and have not finished “Please Look After Mom” by Kyung-Sook Shin, although I love the first third. I am taking “Last Man In Tower,” by Aravind Adiga, on the road – a moral tale of modern India’s business ascent – and then “The Art Of Fielding,” by Chad Harbach.

I just finished a Walter Mosely mystery. He’s very smooth.