Catching Up With Jack Gantos Jack Gantos is the author of several award-winning children's books, young adult fiction and a memoir about his short career as a drug runner. READING Since I admire "Moby-Dick," my daughter gave me "In the Heart of the Sea" by Nathaniel Philbrick, which is a great companion to the Melville. Now I'm reading "Tocqueville's Discovery of America" by Leo Damrosch. Tocqueville was touring America in 1831-32 while Nantucketers were touring the Pacific for whales. It's quite interesting to compare land-based democracy vs. ship-based autocracy and land-based slave-raised crops vs. whale harvesting. LISTENING The film rights to my memoir, "Hole in My Life," were just optioned. The book is set from 1968 to 1972, so I'm trolling through the iconic tunes of those years and imagining the soundtrack - Dylan; Hendrix; Crosby, Stills and Nash; then throw in some Superfly, Nico and the Velvet Underground and a little Lou Reed. WATCHING My wife, daughter and I just watched the entire "Freaks and Geeks" series on DVD. That was impressive. And I'm a huge fan of the recent U.K. "Sherlock" series, which is set in modern times and has an Asperger's-like Sherlock. FOLLOWING My favorite Web site is The Neglected Books Page. Every time I go on it, there is always a title I walk away with that I track down, and it's drop-dead great. WEARING I did buy a beautiful, Prince of Wales check Thom Browne suit. I'm not a gigantic guy - if I was smaller I'd have to be in the boy's department. Dolce & Gabbana, you'll notice the jackets are sort of long, which makes me feel shorter. But Thom Browne jackets come up a little higher, a little sportier, a little hipper.