Tomorrow: jury duty.
The last time I was on jury duty, everyone was reading the same book. Everywhere I turned I saw a black dust jacket with the red thumb print. It was 1987 and, of course, the book was Presumed Innocent.
Tomorrow, I will report back on what they’re reading at the courthouse now, in 2009, in downtown New Haven. I know, I can’t wait either.
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Betsy Lerner 
They were all reading Presumed Innocent? The prosecutor shoulda had them thrown off the damn jury.
I’ll admit that I was one of those people. And I enjoyed it. But I was in college and trying to escape the torture of a pre-med curriculum. You’ll probably see several people reading The Shack, which I saw all over the place on a recent plane trip to distant shores.
I hope you see potential jurors reading The Soloist, but not the story on which the recent Jamie Foxx / Robert Downey, Jr. movie is based. It’s Mark Salzman’s beautiful. quiet novel about a cellist as well- -and his experience as a juror on a murder trial. I hope people have this in place of the other story (however deserving that account is), and we’ll have what occured when the movie Independence Day came out way back when, with its own novelization. Richard Ford’s novel of the same name saw a nice lift, and buyers were too embarrassed to return it when they realized what they had done. But then again………..you’ll likely see The Shack being devoured. Let us know!