Curtis Sittenfeld, author of last year's Laura Bush-inspired novel American Wife is wading into fictional Presidential doings yet again. Last night, Slate started running All Along, This Was Supposed To Happen, a serialized novella about Barack Obama's Inauguration. Reached by email, Ms. Sittenfeld (who used to write for The Observer from time-to-time and is also the author ...

American WifeBy Curtis SittenfeldRandom House, 558 pages, $26 With American Wife, Curtis Sittenfeld has deftly crossed an extraordinarily high wire: She’s written a book in the voice of a someone we all know, and we come out of it thinking not about whether she got it right but rather why it seems here and there just the tiniest bit ...