Bookish: Obscure Designs (6#) -

Alan Glynn writes an essay about '70s paranoia thrillers like The Parallax View, Three Days of the Condor, and Chinatown. He contends we need a revival of the genre.

# Olga Craig interviews author John le Carre who discloses some very personal details about his own life, youth, and family background at the Telegraph.

# Charle McGrath writes about the
complex aftermath of author Stieg Larsson's life.

# Carolyn Kellogg gives a heads-up to
Last Night at Chateau Marmont by Lauren
Weisberger who wrote The Devil Wears Prada.

# Max Headroom was ahead of his time,
Patrick Cassels asserts in a wonderful essay at Slate.

# McSweeney's is holding a contest to find a fresh, new columnist, according to Maryann Yin at GalleyCat. Deadline for entries is September 10th.

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