I tend to read mysteries and thriller fiction. The best of those keep me up at night reading, and I find myself picking them up at odd times to see what happens next. I tend to seldom read "literature", and had to go to Wikipedia to ensure that Thomas Wolfe and Tom Wolfe were different people. I do like biographies, though, and this biography was hard to put down. It is about the Scribner's editor, Max Perkins, and his relationships with F. Scott Fitzgerald (I have read The Great Gatsby), Ernest Hemingway (read some of his short stories), and Thomas Wolfe (I don't think I've ever read any). This is a great book. I learned about those writers, about publishing and editing, and I found myself picking the book up whenever I had a few moments to read the next couple of pages. My wife got tired of me reading sections to her. This is as attention catching as anything by Stephen King, Sara Paretsky, James Patterson, or the others I normally read.