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Post Date: Mar 26, 2008 7:23 a.m.
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What happens to a writer's brain in a cubicle? That's the question Joshua Ferris answers in his National Book Award nominated novel, Then We Came to the End. Over the course of that wonderful book, he plays with narration, dayjob fantasies and the lives of creative people working in cubicles in Chicago. If you haven't read the book, you need to do two different things. First, watch this video interview I did with National Book Award winner Sherman Alexie and NBA finalist Joshua Ferris  Content suppressed by ://URLFAN, for full article visit source
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