Thursday, May 13

Bookish: Other Perspectives (5#) -

These are some of the book reviews and
essays which have caught my attention
as I surfed the Net this past week . . .

# Day for Night by Frederick Reiken is a novel that opens in Florida in 1984 with numerous narrators telling inter-woven tales across a broad landscape. It was featured this past weekend at NPR.

# Berlin is pervaded by 'a perfume of malice.'

Katherine A Powers writes a reader's probing
appreciation of distinctive literary landscapes.

# Paul Constant writes an exploratory essay
about Sci-Fi author Cory Doctorow's world.

# Ari Samsky reviews Wilson's War by Daniel Clowes.

# Fouad Ajami writes an essay
about Faisal Shahzad and his world.

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