Two related articles of interest on NPR: Two media forces have been credited for increasing interest in reading books – Barack Obama and the hit TV show Lost. According to publishers, when Obama has been seen carrying various books, they report a surge in sales for that particular book. Obama apparently prefers mostly non-fiction – biographies of Lincoln, FDR and Thomas Friedman's Flat and Crowded. Lost draws on several literary sources, and pays homage to them throughout the series – including The Third Policeman, Slaughterhouse Five, Turn of the Screw, Watership Down, The Watchmen (which I just started reading), and Stephen King stories. Lost has an official book club (you can read an article about it here). Publishers have been jokingly referring to Obama as the "next Oprah."
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