"The real nonfiction shocker this year is that Freakonomics, an irreverent look at economics first published in 2005, has continued to sell so well in hardcover." An interesting line-up.
"We need bestsellers. But we don’t spend all of our time on them, and we don’t sweep non-bestselling books (or their authors) off to the glue factory. We need all the other books as well. Because