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Bookish: A ROUNDUP - (7#) -

# Tobias Wolff is one of America's more highly regarded storytellers. Craig Seligman reviews Wolff's new book, Our Story Begins, which consists of 21 stories including 10 new ones. "He writes in the Chekhovian mode," says Seligman.

# Lucy Popescu of PEN tells us that Alaa al Aswany's next book due soon is called Chicago and is about Egyptian expatriates living in the U.S. This is from a piece she wrote about plans to translate more contemporary fiction books from Arabic into English.

# Noirish: Mystery author Denise Hamilton
is interviewed in advance of Lit Festival.

# DT Max gives a postive review of Cynthia Ozick's
new book which consists of four novellas.
"Her characters live... Dictation is a brilliant book."

# A review of Tony Judt's new collection of essays: Reappraisals. "The best of them... deal with some of 20th century Europe's major intellectual figures: Albert Camus, Arthur Koestler, Primo Levi, Hannah Arendt and Leszek Kolakowski, among others."

# Haunted by the Holocaust: Not for everyone... this
is a review of Grete Weil's Aftershocks, a collection
of her stories, written by Benjamin Lytal.

# In Rabih Alameddine's new novel The Hakawati,
Osama al-Kharrat returns to his native Beirut...

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