People occasionally say that life has become so absurd it’s immune to parody, and it’s usually in reaction to the antics of a celebrity or a politician or the recent, hideous combination of the two – not the contents of the esteemed New York Times. But the Book Review – which every week interviews an author about his or her reading habits – featured this past Sunday Deion Sanders (co-author of a new inspirational book) who said the best book he ever received as a gift was The Little Engine That Could. Asked what three writers, living or dead, he would invite to a literary dinner party, he named as the third his co-author.
