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Bookish: A LATE WEEKEND (11#) -

On Sundays, I usually like to peruse the Book Sections of various publications, but this Sunday morning I had trouble surfing the Net. About two-thirds of the times I would put in an address into my browser bar, the response was: it couldn't find the server. I tried to track down the problem, but never did. Thus, late . . .

# Interesting Times: Bill Deedes once served as the editor of the UK Telegraph, among many other things.

"Deedes is well remembered... as being the supposed model for Evelyn Waugh's William Boot, the mild and hapless rural journalist plucked by mistake for an important foreign assignment in the novel Scoop."

Maybe a bit too British for some
people, but sounds interesting anyway:

:: The Remarkable Lives of Bill Deedes
by Stephen Robinson; reviewed by Rod Liddle.
:: Stephen Bates at The Guardian reviews it, too.

# Contemporary Crime Gone Global:
The author "tells a grisly story very well."
:: McMafia: Crime Without Frontiers
by Misha Glenny; reviewed by Max Hastings.

# Bernie Gunther moved to Argentina in 1950, but didn't leave the Nazis and "The Jewish Problem" behind, it appears. A glowing review by Jake Kerridge for Philip Kerr's new mystery novel, A Quiet Flame.

# Some historical crimes novels
:: reviewed by Lucy Davies.

# Om Redux: Hippies of the Sixties head down
the trail to India in order to find themselves.
:: The Paradise Trail by Duncan Campbell.

# He teaches history at a Midwestern College, but Lebanese-American Toufic El Rassi, 30, always loved to draw. This is the debut of his graphic novel, Arab in America.

# Our Story by Tobias Wolff
:: is reviewed by Kyle Smith.

# Mystery maestro Otto Penzler writes about The Big Read dedicated to Dashiell Hammett and the diverse array of events scheduled.

# The writer laments the loss of the
Harry Potter clock at King's Cross station.

# The Oxford Literary Festival 2008 [times]

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