Bellow and Nabokov, headed for Greene, Spark, McEwan, Naipaul), my one-novel-a-week goal for 2008 (having run through DeLillo’s White Noise , Coetzee’s Disgrace , Camus’ The Stranger , and Wodehouse’s Carry On, Jeeves ) , and my own in-progress novel (a tale of generational regret, youthful nonsense, and yes, American foreign policy),