August 2000 |
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Thursday August 31, 2000
New York Times
The Knox Brothers by Penelope Fitzgerald
Review by Richard Eder
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Wednesday August 30, 2000
New York Times
The Royal Family by William T. Vollmann
Review by Richard Bernstein
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Tuesday August 29, 2000
New York Times
Properties of Light by Rebecca Goldstein
Review by Michiko Kakutani
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Monday August 28, 2000
Chicago Tribune
A Good House by Bonnie Burnard
Review by Robert Allen Papinchak
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Sunday August 27, 2000
New York Times Book Review
I Loved You All by Paula Sharp
Review by Craig Seligman
A Hole in the Earth by Robert Bausch
Review by Will Blythe
An Obedient Father by Akhil Sharma
Review by Akash Kapur
Graveyard of the Atlantic: Stories by Alyson Hagy
Review by Chris Solomon
Money, Love by Brad Barkley
Review by Ken Foster
The Rose Grower by Michelle de Kretser
Review by Joanna Harris
Books in Brief:
The Twins by Tessa De Lao
Review by William Ferguson
Hot Springs by Stephen Hunter
Review by John D. Thomas
Welcome to My Planet by Shannon Olson
Review by Cynthia Joyce
One Day in the Life of a Born Again Loser by Helen Norris
Review by Peter Khoury
Fool's Gold by Jane S. Smith
Review by Liam Callanan
The Black Rose by Tananarive Due
Review by Charles Wilson
Washington Post Book World
The Lost Legends of New Jersey by Frederick Reiken
Review by Bliss Broyard
When Mountains Walked by Kate Wheeler
Review by James Polk
Leaps of Faith by Rachel Kranz
Review by Roberto Friedman
Ben, In The World by Doris Lessing
Review by Brigitte Weeks
San Francisco Chronicle
Place Last Seen by Charlote McGuinn
Review by Jim Dodge
Sirena Selena by Mayra Santos-Febres
Review by Ron Nyren
Properties of Light by Rebecca Goldstein
Review by Floyd Skloot
Snake by Mary Woronov
Review by David L. Ulin
Dear Julia by Brian Biggs
Good-bye, Chunky Rice by Craig Thompson
Review by Chris Lanier
LA Times
Discoveries:
The Blackwater Lightship by Colm Toibin
Review by Susan Salter Reynolds
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
The Man Who Wrote the Book by Erik Tarloff
Review by Harry Levins
Purple Cane Road by James Lee Burke
Review by Helen Verongos
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Monday August 21, 2000
New York Times
Purple Cane Road by James Lee Burke
Review by Richard Bernstein
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Sunday August 20, 2000
New York Times Book Review
The Royal Family by William T. Vollmann
Review by Laura Miller
Dream Stuff: Stories by David Malouf
Review by Michael Wood
Grange House by Sarah Blake
Review by Laura Jamison
The Lost Legends of New Jersey by Frederick Reiken
Review by Gary Krist
At End of Day by George V. Higgins
Review by Bruce DeSilva
An Invisible Sign of My Own by Aimee Bender
Review by Bliss Broyard
Grant by Max Byrd
Grant Speaks by Ev Ehrlich
That Fateful Lightning: A Novel of Ulysses S. Grant by Richard
Parry
Review by Dante Ramos
Watch Your Mouth by Daniel Handler
Review by Jennifer Kraus
Books in Brief:
That Summer's Trance by J.R. Salamanca
Review by Linda Barrett Osborne
Her Infinite Variety by Louis Auchincloss
Review by Megan Harlan
Drivers at the Short-Time Motel by Eugene Gloria
Review by Melanie Rehak
Sirena Selena by Mayra Santos-Febres
Review by jana Giles
The Dark House by John Sedgwick
Review by James Polk
Washington Post Book World
The Heartsong of Charging Elk by James Welch
Review by Daniel McMahon
A Hole in the Earth by Robert Bausch
Review by Robert Clark
Fiction:
Open House by Elizabeth Berg
Pure by Rebecca Ray
Still Wild: Short Fiction of the American West, 1950 to the
Present
The Special Prisoner by Jim Lehrer
The Sunday Tertilia by Lori Marie Carlson
Review by Joan Mooney
San Francisco Chronicle
The Lost Legends of New Jersey by Frederick Reiken
Review by James Brown
Iron Shoes by Molly Giles
Review by Joanna Smith Rakoff
The Heartsong of Charging Elk by James Welch
Review by Mark Luce
The Blackwater Lightship by Colm Toibin
Review by Floyd Skloot
The River King by Alice Hoffman
Review by Sara Peyton
The Sleep-Over Artist by Thomas Beller
Review by Bernadette Murphy
Stop Breakin Down by John McManus
Review by Ron Franscell
Philadelphia Inquirer
Wainewright the Poisoner by Andrew Motion
Review by Bill Kent
The River King by Alice Hoffman
Review by Peter Landry
Trans-Sister Radio by Chris Bohjalian
Review by Justin Cronin
LA Times
Eduard's Homecoming by Peter Schneider
Review by Jonathan Levi
Chicago Tribune
The Heartsong of Charging Elk by James Welch
Review by Alan Cheuse
Norwegian Wood by Haruki Murakami
Review by Justin Coffin
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Sunday August 13, 2000
New York Times Book Review
Eduard's Homecoming by Peter Schneider
Review by Michael Gorra
Serendipity Green by Rob Levandoski
Review by David Finkle
Caracol Beach by Eliseo Alberto
Review by James Polk
The Better Man by Anita Nair
Review by Kit Reed
Books in Brief:
Asleep by Banana Yashimoto
Review by Magggie Galehouse
Lunch With Elizabeth David by Roger Williams
Review by Julie Gray
Long Odds: Stories by Gordon Weaver
Review by Paula Friedman
One Woman Short by Nelson George
Review by Steven Kandell
Birds of Passage by Robert Sole
Review by Peter Khoury
Washington Post Book World
New Fiction:
The Question of Bruno by Aleksandar Hemon
The Rules of Engagement by Catherine Bush
Affinity by Sarah Waters
Saving Elijah by Fran Dorf
A Blind Man Can See ow Much I Love You by Amy Bloom
Review by Laura Winters
Like Normal People by Karen Bender
Review by Roxana Robinson
Bee Season by Myla Goldberg
Review by Louis Bayard
Philadelphia Inquirer
The Lost Legends of New Jersey by Frederick Reiken
Review by Rita Giordano
San Francisco Chronicle
Drowning Ruth by Christina Schwarz
Review by Stewart O'Nan
Ben, In the World by Doris Lessing
Review by Martin Rubin
Mosaic Man by Ronald Sukenick
Review by Eric Miles Williamson
Jemima J by Jane Green
Review by Sarah Coleman
The Rules of Engagement by Catherine Bush
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Review by Tom Nolan
Catching Heaven by Sands Hall
Review by JoAnn Levy
Chicago Tribune
Grange House by Sarah Blake
Review by Melissa Pritchard
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Open House by Elizabeth Berg
Review by Coleen Kelly Warren
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Friday August 11, 2000
Washington Post
Her Infinite Variety by Louis Auchincloss
Review by Carolyn See
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Wednesday August 9, 2000
New York Times
Flashman and the Tiger by George MacDonald Fraser
Review by Richard Bernstein
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Tuesday August 8, 2000
New York Times
Ben, In the World by Doris Lessing
Review by Michiko Kakutani
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Monday August 7, 2000
New York Times
Magic Terror by Peter Straub
Review by Christopher Lehmann-Haupt
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Sunday August 6, 2000
New York Times
Carp Fishing in Valium: And Other Tales of the Stranger Road
Traveled by Graham Parker
Waterloo Unset: Stories by Ray Davies
Review by Charles Taylor
Ben, in the World by Doris Lessing
Review by Michael Pye
The Daughters of Simon Lamoreaux by David Long
Review by Andrew O'Hehir
Boss Cupid by Thom Gunn
Review by William Deresiewicz
Books in Brief:
Blue by Benjamin Zucker
Review by William Ferguson
Six Crooked Highways by Wayne Johnson
Review by Charles Wilson
Madame by Antoni Libera
Review by David Walton
Magic Terror by Peter Straub
Review by Bill Kent
Atomic Field by Nicholas Christopher
Review by Megan Harlan
Washington Post Book World
Daniel Plainway by Van Reid
Review by Susan Dooley
Wyoming by Barry Gifford
Review by Ron Franscell
Tuff by Paul Beatty
Review by Darryl Cox
Hot Springs by Stephen Hunter
Review by David Morrell
San Francisco Chronicle
The Royal Family by William T. Volmann
Review by Ken Foster
A Blind Man Can See How Much I Love You by Amy Bloom
Review by Richard Wallace
Watch Your Mouth by Daniel Handler
Review by Sarah Coleman
The Blood Latitudes by William Harrison
Review by Tracy Johnston
66 Laps by Leslie Lehr
Review by Courtney Weaver
One Woman Short by Nelson George
Review by Jacob Maso
Mayflies: New Poems and Translations by Richard Wilbur
Review by Cynthia L. Haven
Cronopios and Famas by Julio Cortazar
Review by Cathryn Alpert
Philadelphia Inquirer
In the City of the Disappeared by Tom Hazuka
Review by Ann Morrissett
Dust to Dust by Tami Haog
Review by Thomas J. Brady
LA Times
The Royal Family by William T. Vollmann
Review by Thomas McGonigle
City Sister Silver by Jachym Topol
Fingers Pointing Somewhere Else by Daniela Fischerova
Review by Patricia Hampl
The Color of Summer by Reinaldo Arenas
Review by Jonathan Levi
Discoveries:
Pastoralia by George Saunders
Review by Susan Salter Reynolds
St. Louis Post Dispatch
Quickening by Laura Catherine Brown
Review by Suzanne Rhodenbaugh
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Friday August 4, 2000
Washington Post
Drowning Ruth by Christina Schwartz
Review by Carolyn See
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Thursday August 3, 2000
New York Times
Drowning Ruth by Christina Schwartz
Review by Janet Maslin
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