Sports Fact and Book Rec of the Day 8/23/2007

Late-night host David Letterman, on Tiger Woods' fourth Masters title: "What an amazing accomplishment. Tremendous. I was not aware of this, but if Tiger Woods wins one more Green Jacket, he officially becomes a Christo project."

Birthdays:
Sonny Jurgensen b. 1934
Nancy Richey b. 1942
Julio Franco b. 1958
Rik Smits b. 1966
Kobe Bryant b. 1978

LITERARY FICTION

A woman may have committed a terrible crime. Will the governor of her small town follow the law or succumb to the general public who demands she be destroyed? Bennett’s ambitious literary novel is set in 17th-century England when religious extremism was rampant and destructive, but his themes are eternal. A thought-provoking book, an heir to The Scarlet Letter.

HAVOC, IN ITS THIRD YEAR: A NOVEL, by Ronan Bennett (Simon & Schuster, 2006)