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By Nicholas Fonseca
Nicholas Fonseca
Nicholas Fonseca watches ''Days of Our Lives'' religiously and thinks washing dishes by hand is the cheapest form of therapy on earth.

I love reading, but The Canterbury Tales just isn't my bag. So at a time when my TiVo holds little more than unwatched Men in Trees episodes, I'm thankful for the Pulitzer Book Club, an operation dreamed up by my friend Matt. We're reading, in chronological order, every novel to win the Pulitzer Prize since its inception in 1917. All the American literary giants are here, but the real fun comes in discovering oldies like the 1933 yarn about pre-Civil War Georgia called Lamb in His Bosom. Yes: Lamb. In. His. Bosom. Sorry, Chaucer. We can get cozy in another life.


Posted Nov 25, 1994 | Published in issue #975 Jan 25, 2008 | Order Article Reprints