I recently received an advance copy of a new book by Alix Kates Shulman, To Love What Is: A Marriage Transformed (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2008), which is excerpted in Salon this week. Many of you will know Alix from her much earlier novel, Memoirs of an Ex-Prom Queen. Her latest–a gut-wrenchingly true-to-life memoir this time–is breathtaking in its poignance. That’s all I’ll say. You can read from it right here.

And from a book publicity perspective, I’m fascinated at the way savvy authors now are doing video trailers. Alix has a wonderful one–check it out, here. And to hear Alix on writing, check out this podcast. Kudos to the ex-prom queen on each and every front.