As the Books Editor of Paste Magazine, and a Pulitizer Prize-nominated novelist himself, Charles McNair cares deeply about what we read. But McNair is concerned that Americans are only reading a handful of writers, thanks to what he calls a kind of geographic hegemony of taste-making. In other words - we're all reading the same books because a handful of respected critics on the East and West coasts tell us to. He's out to change that.