And it will most likely continue to rain through the better part of tomorrow, so why not curl up with a book? Edmund White has some suggestions--as does Cynthia Ozick , and John Updike , too. Or maybe you're more in the mood to watch a puppet show interpretation of George Saunders' short story "Ask the Optimist!," originally published in the New Yorker and collected in his new book, The Braindead Megaphone.