Bookish: Weekend Links (7#) -

Nick Meo reviews former Taliban Minister Abdul Salam Zaeef's memoirs, which have been edited by Alex Strick van Linschoten and Felix Kuehn, My Life with the Taliban, at the Telegraph.

# Science Fiction author Philip K Dick spent his last decade in Orange County, California. Scott Timberg writes about that period in Dick's life at the LATimes.

# Olivia Cole describes the
Jaipur Literature Festival in India at TDB.

# A defector from
Scientology publishes her memoirs.

# Some new crime novels
are briefly reviewed by Laura Wilson.

# Steven Poole's non-fiction
round-up includes Jean Baudrillard.

# Jessica Holland reviews a book
of contents culled from The Believer.

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