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Bookish: INTRIGUING GRAB BAG (8#) -

Hong Kong: Meet Roland Soong who blogs at EastSouthWestNorth, a bridge blog about China, which is a bit like The Drudge Report, Leslie Hook tells us.

# The Village Voice gives us a preview of the Brooklyn Book Festival by Matthew Shaer. It starts this Sunday, Sept 14th.

# "Nadeem Aslam's follow-up to his acclaimed Maps For Lost Lovers is about people searching for someone they've lost, played out against two decades of war in Afghanistan." The Wasted Vigil is reviewed by John Harding.

# The Glass Of Time by Michael Cox is a story of
Victorian intrigue. Review by Hephzibah Anderson.

# Fall Books touted by
The Phoenix in Boston.

# Paul Boutin reviews science fiction writer Neal Stephenson's new book Anathem. Stephenson is the author of the well-known book Cryptonomicom.

This one takes place in an alternate universe populated by a group of cloistered scholars, until their world is invaded by outsiders.

Boutin's review is outstanding because he familiarizes us with some of the territory covered, but without giving too much away.

# Another review of Anathem by Nisi Shawl.

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