Have guns, will write.

That's Michael Thomas, author of Man Gone Down, recent winner of the Impac prize, flexing while pretending not to flex.

If you made a Ven diagram with writers and dudes who lift, the overlap would be very, very thin. Pretty much it would be this guy, Ben Percy, and Mark Leyner.

Anyway, I wanted to point to this interesting article about Thomas and his book, which includes some sharp insights like the following:

Despite the accolades, Mr. Thomas seems somewhat wary, even uneasy, about embracing his good fortune. He wondered whether his triumph should be attributed solely to the merits of his novel or whether other, nonliterary motives may also have been in play.

“My role now is some noble savage,” he said, “some person who has risen to grace from some sort of strange beginnings.” Or as he put it at another point in an interview Friday afternoon at a coffee shop in Cobble Hill, Brooklyn, near his home, “If you don’t have a physical deformity and are of above average intelligence and are black or from any marginalized minority, you become a poster boy for uplift.”