Specs and the City

After already earning the highly coveted honor of appearing in NextDraft’s Weekend Whats section, David Szalay’s novel Flesh has been awarded the Booker Prize. You may not know that Sarah Jessica Parker was among the the five judges who chose this year’s winner. “Winning the Booker Prize is a life-changing experience for an author. Sales blow up. Demands for interviews pour in. But Parker, who oversees a literary imprint at Zando, said that being a judge was just as life-changing.” Powering through 153 books will do that. Sarah Jessica Parker’s Year of Judging the Booker Prize. Now that it’s over, the reviewers can get back to some semblance of their normal lives. But, the five judges have formed a book group so they can keep reading together…