Who/What Are You Currently Reading?

As for myself, I'm into Russian writers for the time being. I'm reading Vladimir Nabokov's Lolita, and just treated myself to a copy of Anton Pavlovich Chekhov's The Party and Other Stories (from Denver Book Mall, the third used bookstore I went into this afternoon). Usually I stay away from short stories because I found the ones by western/western-ly influenced writers as "hollow."

But last week I dusted off my (used) copy of Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri and despite frowning over private yet very public displays of emotions in the first two stories, I managed to finish the whole book. It struck me that I've been avoiding emotions in my works, and maybe that was also the reason why I avoided such short stories.

Anyway, I'm also looking for a (used) copy of Milan Kundera's The Unbearable Lightness of Being and short stories by Nikolai Gogol. Apparently, Lahiri is deeply influenced by the latter.

So what and/or who are you reading?

**As for new releases, I would really love to read Cutting For Stone by Abraham Verghese. It's about two twin brothers who are doctors and their complicated relationship with each other and their estranged father, who is also a doctor. I am a sucker for medical fiction, the last book about doctors that I read was Beat the Reaper by Josh Bazell. It is flippin' amazing, and upon finishing it, I concluded that Peter Brown is one kick-as* MD!