Bookish: INTO THE HEAT (6#) -

Entering Summer Territory . . .

Is Seattle too nice for Noir?
Too laid-back and politically correct?

Seattle Mystery Bookshop is launching
Akashic's latest city darkside with its Seattle Noir.

# Feature about Eric Ambler in this weekend's WSJ.

# Jeffrey Eugenides shares his
enthusiasm for Bellow's Herzog at NPR.

# New issue of Book Forum
posted online: June-July-Aug 2009.

# Hay Lit Festival

# Whatever happened to Pat Conroy?
... and other provocative reads ... Sara Nelson's
Book Picks for this summer. Try to catch this one.

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