Thanks for the recommendations SRS and Arne. I'll put those on my summer reading list then. I understand 'Made in Texas' is pretty short.

This week I'll be starting Susan Sontag's 'Regarding the Pain of Others'. It appears to be a very interesting work, discussing how the images of atrocities that have become so commonplace via TV and computer screens, influences the viewers, ie does the daily barrage of violent news images inure or incite us to violence, create apathy, etc. She examines the intersection of news and art that depicts images of war and disaster. The book is 130 pgs, which seems slim to me for such complex subject matter. We'll see how she pulls it off.