In another example of nerds making good, Junot Díaz has won the 2008 Pulitzer Prize for fiction for The Brief and Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao (Riverhead Books). It’s a really superb book, almost miraculously so since it’s primarily about an undersexed, comic-loving geek. (Seriously, that’s a category of fiction that’s closing in on hip novels about twenty-somethings trying to break into the publishing industry.)