 | James P. Othmer Friend of the blog, JPO’s enormously fun satire is one of my recommendations for paperback reading this summer. Here’s what I said last year: “The smug wink-and-nod cynicism and their unraveling is reminiscent of Revolutionary Road, but, you know, really funny, including an excrutiating, more than you want to know account of vasectomies.” JE reviewed it too, and put it on his Manly Books of the Year list. |
 | Keith Scribner Jennifer Tyler reviewed this just yesterday. How about that? |
 | Jane Smiley Smiley lost me with Three Days in the Hills, but I often like her a lot. This looks great to me. I’ll read it if one comes my way. |
 | Jim Crace Leonard Lessing is a British jazz musician whose life has become largely predictable and stagnant. While watching the news one night he recognizes a man who is holding four hostages. |
 | Jane Mendelsohn In her exquisite, psychologically fluent novels, the actual and imagined merge as Mendelsohn tests the power of stories to define, guide, and sometimes destroy us. Her third novel is an intricate puzzle of haunting, far-reaching, secretly connected love stories…. Sensuously rendered.” —Booklist |
 | Kate Christensen We’ve written about Kate Christensen a lot over the years. In fact, you can read her interview with Dennis today. If you look around you can find reviews of The Astral and Trouble, and the Three Guys treatment of The Great Man |
 | Simon Rich Simon Rich stopped by 3G1B last year with a WWFIL piece about Roald Dahl: “Luckily, like the alcohol prohibition of 1919, the TV rules were completely unenforceable. All I had to do was hold a book in my lap while watching my shows.” Read the rest here. |
 | Lee Martin “Martin, whose kidnap novel The Bright Forever (2005) was a finalist for the 2006 Pulitzer Prize in fiction, expertly applies shades of James Cain–like noir to modern story that might have been inspired by one of the Lucinda Williams songs on this book’s soundtrack.” –Kirkus Reviews Sounds great. Awful cover. |
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