airport reading

I just heard, on the NPR Books podcast (8 March 2010), recommendations for airport reading from author Susan Jane Gilman:

• Elaine Dundy’s The Old Man and Me – plucky woman protagonist
• Miriam Toews’ The Flying Troutmans – Little Miss Sunshine in Canada
• Daniel Everett’s Don’t Sleep; There Are Snakes – non-fiction story about going into the Amazon
• Benjamin Nugent’s American Nerd: The Story of My People – nerds…
• Pierre Bayard’s How to Talk About Books You Haven’t Read

And there are my next five trips…