Fiction Review Source June 2001

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June 2001

Friday June 29, 2001
New York Times

Kissing in Manhattan by David Schickler Review by Michiko Kakutani

Washington Post
Spectacular Happiness by Peter D. Kramer Review by Carolyn See

Thursday June 28, 2001
New York Times
Up In the Air by Walter Kirn
The Catsitters by James Wolcott
Review by Janet Maslin

Sunday June 24, 2001
New York Times Book Review
Empire Falls by Richard Russo Review by A.O. Scott
The Catsitters by James Wolcott Review by Laura Miller
Kissing in Manhattan by David Schickler Review by Jennifer Schuessler
In Cuba I Was a German Shepherd by Ana Menendez Review by Richard Eder
Dupont Circle by Paul Kafka-Gibbons Review by karen Karbo
Schooling by Heather McGowan Review by Eric Weinberger

Washington Post Book World
The Wind Done Gone by Alice Randall Review by Carolyn See
Love and Modern Medicine by Perri Klass Review by Lori Leibovich
Flatterland by Ian Stewart Review by Martin Gardner
American Gods by Neil Gaiman Review by Michael Dirda
Juniper Tree Burning by Goldberry Long Review by Jenny Offill
Glue by Irvine Welsh Review by Jonathan Fasman
A Perfect Arrangement by Suzanne Berne Review by Katherine A. Powers

Fiction:
Life After Death by Carol Muske-Dukes
Love's Death by Oscar van den Boogaard
Three Apples Fell From Heaven by Micheline Aharonian Marcom
The Other Side of Mulholland by Stephen Randall
Review by Elizabeth Roca

San Francisco Chronicle
The Heart is Deceitful Above All Things by J.T. LeRoy Review by Ken Foster
Children of Pithiviers by Sheila Kohler Review by Charlotte McGuinn Freeman
Fearless Jones by Walter Mosley Review by David Lazarus
P is For Peril by Sue Grafton Review by Monica Wood
Before Time Could Change Them: The Complete Poems of Constantine P. Cavafy
Review by Carmela Ciuraru
I Don't Want To Go To Jail by Jimmy Breslin Review by John Freeman
Funny Accent by Barbara Shulgasser-Parker Review by Megan Harlan
The Pharmacist's Mate by Amy Fusselman Review by Andrew Roe
Thinks by David Lodge Review by Tony Mastrogiorgio
Getting a Life by Helen Simpson Review by Sarah Coleman

Chicago Tribune
Among the Missing by Dan Chaon Review by Michael Upchurch
Girl Beside Him by Cris Mazza Review by Kera Bolonik
The Cold Six Thousand by James Ellroy Review by Keir Graff

Philadelphia Inquirer
The Miracle Life of Edgar Mint by Brady Udall Review by Sanford Pinsker
Carry Me Across the Water by Ethan Canin Review by Justin Cronin

Boston Globe
Thinks by David Lodge Review by Gail Caldwell

St. Louis Post-Dispatch
A Theory of Relativity by Jacquelyn Mitchard Review by Gail Pennington

LA Times
The Wind Done Gone by Alice Randall Review by D.J. Carlile

Tuesday June 12, 2001
New York Times
Getting a Life by Helen Simpson Review by Michiko Kakutani

Sunday June 10, 2001
New York Times Book Review
Thinks by David Lodge Review by Lisa Zeidner
Sputnik Sweetheart by Haruki Murakami Review by Damiel Zalewski
Poems 1968-1998 by Paul Muldoon Review by Richard Eder
By the Sea by Abdulrazak Gurnah Review by Michael Pye
Fearless Jones by Walter Mosley Review by Jesse Berrett
Children of Pithiviers by Sheila Kohler Review by Katharine Weber
Bel Canto by Ann Patchett Review by James Polk
Ambassador of the Dead by Askold Melnyczuk Review by Jeffrey Eugenides

Washington Post Book World
To the Hermitage by Malcolm Bradbury Review by Daniel McMahon
Piano Music For Four Hands by Roger Grenier Review by Philip Kennicott
The Carpenter's Pencil by Manuel Rivas Review by Barbara Probst Solomon
My Grandmother's Erotic Folktales by Robert Antoni Review by Elizabeth Hand

Fiction:
Narrative of a Pastor's Disappearance by Benjamin Anastas
Rough Music by Patrick Gale
No One Thinks of Greenland by John Griesemer
I Don't Want To Go To Jail by Jimmy Breslin
P.S. by Helen Schulman
Review by Mark Luce

San Francisco Chronicle
True Enough by Stephen McCauley Review by John Perry
The Good People of New York by Thisbe Nissen Review by Josh Emmons
Kissing in Manhattan by David Schickler Review by Porter Shreve
The Muse Asylum by David Czuchlewski Review by Claire Splan
How To Paint Sunlight by Lawrence Ferlinghetti Review by Carmella Ciuraru

Chicago Tribune
Bad Timing by Betsy Berne
Bone House by Betsy Tobin
These Granite Islands by Sarah Stonich
Still Can't See Nothin' Comin' by Daniel Grey Marshall
Review by Dawn Marlan
Thinks by David Lodge Review by Robert E. Hosmer
When I Lived in Modern Times by Linda Grant Review by Chris Bohjalian
Crooked River Burning by Mark Winegardner Review by Thrity Umrigar

Philadelphia Inquirer
Clay's Quilt by Silas House Review by Lisa Sigler

LA Times
Recent History by Anthony Giardina Review by Regina Marler
Water in Darkness by Daniel Buckman Review by Jack Fuller
Thinks by David Lodge Review by Peter Green

First Fiction
The Rich Part of Life by Jim Kokoris
Field Guide by Gwendolen Gross
The Dark Room by Rachel Seiffert
Review by Mark Rozzo
Empire Falls by Richard Russo Review by D.T. Max
The Golovyov Family by Shchedrin Review by James Wood

Friday June 8, 2001
New York Times
Two Murders in My Double Life by Josef Skvorecky Review by Michiko Kakutani

Tuesday June 5, 2001
New York Times
Thinks by David Lodge Review by Michiko Kakutani

Sunday June 3, 2001
New York Times Book Review
The Columnist by Jeffrey Frank Review by Robert Worth
The Unknown Sigrid Undset: Jenny and Other Works Review by Bruce Bawer
Fish, Blood and Bone by Leslie Forbes Review by Charles Taylor
Drinking With the Cook by Laura Furman Review by Deborah Mason

Washington Post Book World
Border Crossing by Pat Barker Review by Barbara Esstman
The Unknown Errors of Our Lives by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni Review by Claire Messud
Here's To You, Jesusa by Elena Poniatowska Review by Nina King
Thinks by David Lodge Review by Michael Dirda

San Francisco Chronicle
Hotel Honolulu by Paul Theroux Review by Floyd Skloot
Five Quarters of the Orange by Joanne Harris Review by Regan McMahon
Astronauts & Other Stories by Matthew Iribarne Review by David Wiegand
Best Friends by Martha Moody Review by Heller McAlpin
Cranberry Queen by Kathleen DeMarco Review by Megan Harlan

Chicago Tribune
Snow Mountain Passage by James Houston Review by Ann Fabian
Kissing in Manhattan by David Schickler
The Good People of New York by Thisbe Nissen
Review by Carmela Ciuraru
Electric Light by Seamus Heaney Review by Joshua Weiner

Friday June 1, 2001
New York Times
Glass Mountain by R.M. Koster Review by Richard Bernstein

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