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Bookish: SOME WEEKEND LINKS (6#) -

# Mystery Maestro Otto Penzler
reviews Loren D Estleman's new novel:

*Gas City is an utterly believable portrait of people in a city so comfortable with corruption that they would rather not have it cleaned up lest they find themselves adrift in a world they no longer understand.*

# Laura Wilson reviews Blood from Stone by Frances Fyfield who is being compared here to Patricia Highsmith. Plus: a few more.

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# Nick Fraser at The Guardian profiles Richard Yates, a neglected 20th Century American writer. Two of his novels are being made into upcoming movies.

# And for the more adventurous: A feature piece about a new English novelist named Will Ashon. Two of his favorite writers are Thomas Pynchon and Georges Perec. He writes about contemporary life as a kind of "low-intensity dystopia."

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# TURIN INT'L BOOK FAIR: The Arab League's recent vote to impose censorship on satellite TV channels such as Al Jazeera has now morphed into a call by some Arabphonic intellectuals to impose censorship on the Turin Book Fair which has invited Israel to participate this spring in honor of its 60th anniversary.

If these Arabphonic intellectuals cannot control the administration and policies of the Turin Book Fair, they are advocating boycott. Looks like they have some unresolved control issues. How about controlling that urge to control?

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