July 2001 |
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Sunday July 29, 2001
New York Times Book Review
The Rackets by Thomas Kelly
Review by Colin Harrison
Antarctica by Claire Keegan
Review by Caitlin Macy
Cool for You by Eileen Myles
The Heart is Deceitful Above All Things by J.T. LeRoy
Review by Ann Powers
Blue Diary by Alice Hoffman
Review by Claire Dederer
Flight of the Swans by Rosario Ferre
Review by Diana Postlethwaite
Books in Brief:
American Gods by Neil Gaiman
Review by Kera Bolonik
Jeremy Thrane by Kate Christensen
Review by Mary Elizabeth Williams
Strangers in Town by Ross McDonald
Review by Scott Veale
Pipe Dream by Solomon Jones
Review by Barbara Sutton
'57 Chicago by Steve Monore
Review by Tom Beer
The Other Mozart by Sharon Chmielarz
Review by Megan Harlan
Washington Post Book World
What You Owe Me by Bebe Moore Campbell
Review by Louise Titchener
In the Company of Angels by N.M. Kelby
Review by Lev Raphael
Fairness by Ferdinand Mount
Review by Michael Dirda
Clerical Errors by Alan Isler
Review by Donna Rifkind
The Dark Room by Rachel Seiffert
Review by Adam Kirsch
Blue Diary by Alice Hoffman
Review by Laurie Stone
San Francisco Chronicle
Everything You Need by A.L. Kennedy
Review by Sarah Coleman
Halide's Gift by Frances Kazan
Review by Marion Abbott
Lit Life by Kurt Wenzel
Review by Kevin Smokler
Summerland by Malcolm Knox
Review by Mark Luce
Life After Death by Carol Muske-Dukes
Review by John Perry
Boston Globe
The Procedure by Harry Mulisch
Second Thyme Around by Katie Fforde
Review by Barbara Fisher
Kissing in Manhattan by David Schickler
Among the Missing by Dan Chaon
Review by Gail Caldwell
LA Times
John Henry Days by Colson Whitehead
Review by D.J. Carlile
First Fiction:
Juniper Tree Burning by Goldberry Long
Juno & Juliet by Julian Gough
Lit Life by Kurt Wenzel
Review by Mark Rozzo
Chicago Tribune
Year of Wonders by Geraldine Brooks
Review by Sandra Scofield
The Sweetheart Is In by S.L. Wisenberg
Review by Valerie Miner
How To Be Good by Nick Hornby
Review by Robert Allen Papinchak
The Yokota Officers Club by Sarah Bird
Review by Jeanne Ray
Philadelphia Inquirer
I Wish I Had a Red Dress by Pearl Cleage
Review by Phaedra Trethan
Pipe Dream by Solomon Jones
Review by Frank Wilson
Babe in Paradise by Marisa Silver
Review by Justin Cronin
St. Louis Post Dispatch
The Broken Places by Susan Perabo
Review by Lee Ann Sandweiss
Everything You Need by A.L. Kennedy
Glue by Irvine Welsh
How To Be Good by Nick Hornby
Review by John Freeman
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Sunday July 22, 2001
New York Times
The Center of Things by Jenny McPhee
Review by Dennis Overbye
The Death of Sweet Mister by Daniel Woodrell
Review by Michael Anderson
Honeymooners by Chuck Kinder
Review by Jay McInerney
The Selected Poetry of Robinson Jeffers
Review by Brad Leithauser
On the Water by H.M. van den Brink
Review by Chris Solomon
Jewelry Talks: A Novel Thesis by Richard Klein
Review by William Norwich
The Flight of the Maidens by Jane Gardam
Review by Jacqueline Carey
The Looking Glass by Michele Roberts
Review by Catherine Lockerbie
Washington Post Book World
The Looking Glass by Michele Roberts
Review by Emily Barton
Lili by Annie Wang
Review by Lisa See
Bombay Time by Thrity Umrigar
Review by Helen C. Wan
Halide's Gift by Frances Kazan
Review by Gelareh Asayesh
To Swim Across the World by Frances Park and Ginger Park
Review by Deborah Sussman Susser
Chicago Tribune
The Rose City by David Ebershoff
Review by Wilton Barnhardt
True Enough by Stephen McCauley
Review by Dan Santow
The Sweep of the Second Hand by Dean Monti
Review by Barry Silesky
San Francisco Chronicle
How To Be Good by Nick Hornby
Review by David Kipen
Blue Diary by Alice Hoffman
Review by Monica Wood
Edgewater Angels by Sandro Meallet
Review by James Brown
Juno & Juliet by Julian Gough
Review by Jeff Galipeaux
My Story As Told By Water by David James Duncan
Review by John Osborn
Our Lady of the Assassins by Fernando Vallejo
Review by Richard Wallace
Philadelphia Inquirer
All We Know of Heaven by Remy Rougeau
Review by Michael D. Schaffer
LA Times
Elvis in the Morning by William F. Buckley
Review by Jeff Turrentine
The Sailor's Wife by Helen Benedict
Review by Peter Green
The Looking Glass by Michele Roberts
Review by Kai Maristed
How To Be Good by Nick Hornby
Review by Jonathan Levi
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Lit Life by Kurt Wenzel
Review by Josh Stevens
Secrets of Tsil Cafe by Thomas Fox Averill
Review by Judith Evans
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Sunday July 15, 2001
New York Times
The Bostons by Carolyn Cooke
Review by Sylvia Brownrigg
Talking in the Dark: Stories by Laura Glen Louis
Yellow by Don Lee
Review by Will Blythe
The Dearly Departed by Elinor Lipman
Review by Maggie Galehouse
Rot by Janet Kauffman
Review by Richard Lourie
Grand Ambition by Lisa Michaels
Review by Liam Callanan
Elvis in the Morning by William F. Buckley
Review by Robert Plunket
Books in Brief:
All the Finest Girls by Alexandra Styron
Review by Mark Lindquist
Doghouse Roses by Steve Earle
Review by Sia Michel
Spinach Days: Poems by Robert Phillips
Review by Megan Harlan
Dream House: Stories by Barbara Bean
Review by Judith Bolton-Fasman
Clay's Quilt by Silas House
Review by Erik Lundegaard
Gunman's Rhapsody by Robert Parker
Review by Allen Barra
Washington Post Book World
Next of Kin by Joanna Trollope
Review by Jonathan Yardley
How To Be Good by Nick Hornby
Review by Jennifer Howard
Blake's Therapy by Ariel Dorfman
Review by Joanna Omang
The Center of Things by Jenny McPhee
Review by Sam Lipsyte
The Songcatcher by Sharyn McCrumb
Review by Judith Warner
All We Know of Heaven by Remy Rougeau
Review by Robert Clark
The Right Hand of Sleep by John Wray
Review by Zofia Smardz
San Francisco Chronicle
Antarctica by Claire Keegan
Review by Tony Mastrogiorgio
The Center of Things by Jenny McPhee
Review by Jonathan Kiefer
The Dearly Departed by Elinor Lipman
Review by Heller McAlpin
Up In the Air by Walter Kirn
Review by Kevin Smokler
Mind the Doors by Zinovy Zinik
Review by Irina Reyn
Juniper Tree Burning by Goldberry Long
Review by Megan Harlan
Philadelphia Inquirer
The Catsitters by James Wolcott
Review by Carlin Romano
Boston Globe
The Journey Home by Olaf Olafsson
Review by Dick Lehr
The Fourth Hand by John Irving
Review by Gail Caldwell
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Sunday July 8, 2001
New York Times
The Artist's Wife by Max Phillips
Review by Sarah Boxer
Up In the Air by Walter Kirn
Review by Christopher Buckley
The Fourth Hand by John Irving
Review by Richard Eder
Slammerkin by Emma Donoghue
Review by Laura Jamison
Washington Post Book World
The Muse Asylum by David Czuchlewski
Review by Todd Kliman
Bel Canto by Ann Patchett
Review by Joseph McLellan
Kissing in Manhattan by David Schickler
Review by Judith Warner
Schooling by Heather McGowan
All Loves Excelling by Josiah Bunting III
Review by Linda Barrett Osborne
Rise to Rebellion by Jeff Shaara
Review by Noel Perrin
All the Finest Girls by Alexandra Styron
Grand Ambition by Lisa Michaels
The Width of the Sea by Michelle Chalfoun
By the Sea by Abdulrazak Gurnah
Silent Extras by Arnon Grunberg
Review by Heller McAlpin
San Francisco Chronicle
Yonder Stands Your Orphan by Barry Hannah
Review by Brad Vice
The Fourth Hand by John Irving
Review by Dennis Loy Johnson
Slammerkin by Emma Donoghue
Review by Danielle Svetcov
Secrets of the Tsil Cafe by Thomas Fox Averill
Review by Jacob Molyneux
Housebroken by Yael Hedaya
Review by Andrew Ervin
Philadelphia Inquirer
Thinks by David Lodge
Review by Dan DeLuca
Chicago Tribune
Yellow by Don Lee
Lili by Annie Wang
Review by Jan Alexander
Secret Love by Bart Schneider
Review by John Gregory Brown
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Leaving the Neighborhood by Lucy Ferriss
Review by Richard Burgin
LA Times
Antarctica by Claire Keegan
Review by Jerry Griswold
Bel Canto by Ann Patchett
Review by Jonathan Levi
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