So yesterday we read part The New Yorker winter fiction issue while getting a mediocre workout on the stairmaster. Jhumpa Lahiri and Junot Diaz, two of our favorite writers, have stories, so it seemed like Chanukah came late this year. (Just kidding, mom. We love the scarf!)

Anyway, Jhumpa Lahiri's story, "Year's End" (which isn't online, ugh) was a continuation of her piece "Once In a Lifetime" from May, 2006.

We're not the literary paparazzi, but it seems like Jhumpa Lahiri's next novel will incorporate these two pieces.

We know speculating about the next book from a slow-moving and award-winning author has less scheudenfreude appeal than guessing how long it will take for Jamie Lynn Spears's unborn fetus to go to rehab. But if there's any time to be earnestly excited about something, it's around this season.