More geek cred

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.)