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Bookish: SOME HIGHLIGHTS (2#) -

# The Summer Issue of BOOKFORUM has been posted online for June/July/August. I haven't read it yet, but here are some highlights from the index of contents:

:: SOUL INSPECTOR:
Luc Sante on Georges Simenon;

:: Valerie Steiker on Shocking Life:
The Autobigraphy of Elsa Schiaparelli;

:: Nicholas von Hoffman on J Edgar Hoover,
the Red Scare, and the Kennedys.

+ Looks like they've put together enough variety for most readers to find something interesting there. A good way to spend some of a rainy afternoon, as long as there's no lightening to fry your computer. [bkfrm]

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# And next month, the English translation of Girls of Riyadh by Rajaa Alsanea will be released in the United States by the Penguin Press... from an article in the current issue of the NY Observer.

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