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Original Essays | September 23, 2009

Jonathan Lethem: IMG Stops: On Those Things My New Novel Forgot to Be About, Maybe



For me, there's a weird, unfathomable gulf — I almost wrote gulp — between the completion of a novel and its publication. Some days this duration feels interminable, as though the book has... Continue »
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    Chronic City

    Jonathan Lethem

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U-Turn: What If You Woke Up One Morning and Realized You Were Living the Wrong Life? by Bruce Grierson
U-Turn: What If You Woke Up One Morning and Realized You Were Living the Wrong Life?

Bill, June 15, 2007

Excellent. A very thoughtful examination of "secular epiphanies". I also found the book's website informative. It gives the background and other info on the book and the author... www.u-turns.org
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His Majesty's Dragon by Naomi Novik
His Majesty's Dragon

Bill, March 4, 2007

Inventive variation of the dragon genre. Temeraire has the gift of speech, a fighting spirit, and a curious mind. Great start of a wonderful series.
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From the Death of King Tsongor
From the Death of King Tsongor

Bill, March 4, 2007

A powerful, violent fable about war and human desire. Read the book in two hours but feel its impact for a very long time.
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State of Denial: Bush at War, Part III by Bob Woodward
State of Denial: Bush at War, Part III

Bill, October 7, 2006

Woodward coaxes powerful anecdotes from powerful people within and close to the Bush administration to paint harrowing scenes of the use of power during a time of war.
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