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Wednesday March 31, 1999 New York Times Ocean Sea by Alessandro Baricco Review by Richard Bernstein Washington Post Sinatraland by Sam Kashner Review by Jonathan Yardley Sunday March 28, 1999 New York Times Me by Garrison Keillor Review by Peter Applebome Lord of the Barnyard by Tristan Egolf Review by Laura Miller Survival Rates: Stories by Mary Clyde Review by Karen Karbo Freedom Song by Amit Chaudri Review by Alice Truax Intimacy by Hanif Kureishi Review by Jane Mendelsohn Teeth of the Dog by Jill Ciment Review by David Sacks The Book of Blam by Aleksandr Tisma Review by Larry Wolff Kafka's Curse by Achmat Dangor Review by Christopher Hope The River Midnight by Lilian Nattel Review by Roy Hoffman The Sound of Trumpets by John Mortimer Review by Alison Lurie Books in Brief: More Bread or I'll Appear by Emer Martin Review by Megan Harlan Under House Arrest by Yevgeny Kharitonov Review by Vesna Neskow Dog Eat Dog by Jerry Jay Carroll Review by Liam Callanan Vittorio the Vampire by Ann Rice Review by Andrea Higbie The Mother-in-law Diaries by Carol Dawson Review by Laura Jamison Washington Post Book World Evensong by Gail Godwin Review by Brigitte Weeks Philadelphia Inquirer Me by Garrison Keillor Review by Robert Schmuhl Vittorio the Vampire by Anne Rice Review by Marc Schogol San Francisco Chronicle Trumpet by Jackie Kay Review by Bart Schneider The Daiquiri Girls by Toni Graham Review by Melissa Levine The Wake of the Wind by J.California Cooper Review by Joyce Irvine Early Sorrows by Danilo Kis Review by Christopher Merrill Elegy for the Departure by Zbigniew Herbert Review by Christopher Merrill LA Times Little Green Men by Christopher Buckley Review by Jonathan Levi Discoveries: Crowe's Requiem by Mike McCormack Sleep: Stories by Stephen Dixon The Sea Came in at Midnight by Steve Erickson Review by Susan Salter Reynolds St. Louis Post-Dispatch Elementals: Stories of Fire and Ice by A.S. Byatt Review by Peter Wolfe Thursday March 25, 1999 Washington Post The Electrical Field by Kerri Sakamoto Review by Lelia Ruckenstein Wednesday March 24, 1999 New York Times Nine Below Zero by Kevin Canty Review by Richard Bernstein Monday March 22, 1999 New York Times Fredy Neptune: A Novel in Verse by Les Murray Review by Ricahrd Eder Sunday March 21, 1999 New York Times Book Review Devil's Valley by Andre Brink Review by Lorna Sage Darkest Desire: The Wolf's Own Tale by Anthony Schmitz Review by M.G. Lord Single & Single by John le Carre Review by Michael Lewis The Handyman by Carolyn See Review by David Willis McCullough World Elsewhere by Peter Brooks Review by Hilary Mantel Books in Brief: Foreign Bodies by Hwee Hwee Tan Review by Anderson Tepper The Narrowback by Michael Ledwidge Review by Erik Burns The Jewish Lover by Edward Topol Review by Patrick Giles The Dangerous Age by Annette Williams Jaffee Review by Betsy Groban Pink Slip by Rita Ciresi Review by Barbara Quick Ocean Sea by Alessandro Baricco Review by Jenny McPhee Washington Post Book World Tara Road by Maeve Binchy Review by Michele Slung Amy and Isabelle by Elizabeth Strout Review by Reeve Lindbergh The World and Other Places by Jeanette Winterson Review by Steven Moore This Scribe, My hand: The Complete Poems of Ben Belitt Review by Adam Kirsch Freedom Song by Amit Chaudhuri Review by Sudip Bose Night Music: Poems by L.E. Sissman Review by Michael Dirda San Francisco Chronicle The Last Lovely City: Stories by Alice Adams Review by Georgie Jones-Davis Dog Eat Dog by Jerry Jay Carroll Review by Andy Solomon The Peculiar Memories of Thomas Penman by Bruce Robinson Review by Martin Rubin The Foreign Student by Susan Choi Review by Tara Ison Nine Below Zero by Kevin Canty Review by John Perry The Dragon Can't Dance by Earl Lovelace Review by Michael Upchurch The Conversion by Aharon Appelfeld Review by Christopher Merrill LA Times Devil's Valley by Andre Brink Review by Jonathan Levi St. Louis Post-Dispatch Tara Road by Maeve Binchy Review by Gail Pennington Garnethill by Denise Mina Review by Judith Evans Faraway Blue by Max Evans Review by Susan C. Thompson Friday March 19, 1999 The Stones Cry Out by Hikaru Okuizumi Review by Carolyn See Thursday February 18, 1999 New York Times Such a Pretty Pretty Girl by Winston Groom Review by Christopher Lehmann-Haupt Washington Post Sister of My Heart by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni Review by Mary Kay Zuraleff Tuesday March 16, 1999 New York Times Damascus by Richard Beard Review by Richard Eder Monday March 15, 1999 Washington Post Certifiably Insane by Arthur W. Bahr Review by Carolyn Banks Sunday March 14, 1999 New York Times Book Review Taking Lives by Michael Pye Review by Michael Upchurch The Undiscovered Chekhov: Thirty-eight New Stories Review by Doanld Fanger Trumpet by Jackie Kay Review by Aoibheann Sweeney Damascus by Richard Beard Review by Frederic Tuten Life with Swan by Paul West Review by Roger Kimball Picking up the Pieces by Mary Sheepshanks Review by Barbara Quick The Law of Similars by Chris Bohjalian Review by Liz Rosenberg Sonny Liston Was a Friend of Mine: Stories by Thom Jones Review by Dwight Garner Books in Brief: Heads by Harry by Lois-Ann Yamanaka Review by Michael Porter Flesh Guitar by Geoff Nicholson Review by Anthony Bourdain How to Accomodate Men by Marilyn Krysl Review by Megan Harlan The Gardens of Light by Amin Maalouf Review by David Guy Evening News by Marly Swick Review by James Polk Suspicion by Barbara Rogan Review by Julie Gray Washington Post Book World Original Bliss by A.L. Kennedy Review by Charles Wilson Philadelphia Inquirer The Pollen Room by Zoe Jenny Review by Carlin Romano Freedom Song by Amit Chauduri Review by Ward Hower The Mitt Man by Mel Taylor Review by Farah Jasmine Griffin San Francisco Chronicle The Idealists by Henry Carlisle and Olga Andreyev Carlisle Review by David Freeman Esperanza's Box of Saints by Maria Ampara Escandon Review by Joyce Irvine Self-Portrait With Ghosts by Kelly Dwyer Review by Whitney Otto Finbar's Hotel by Roddy Doyle (and others) Review by Tony Mastrogiogio LA Times Damascus by Richard Beard Review by Jonathan Levi Discoveries: Rescue by Elizabeth Richards Evensong by Gail Godwin The World and Other Places by Jeanette Winterson Review by Susan Salter Reynolds St. Louis Post-Dispatch The Return of Little Big Man by Thomas Berger Review by Allen Barra Werewolves in Their Youth by Michael Chabon Review by Jameson Currier Sunday March 7, 1999 New York Times Book Review Incubus by Ann Arensberg Review by Janet Burroway Who's Hot/Who's Not by Sherwood Kiraly Review by Deanne Stillman The Tesseract by Alex Garland Review by Elizabeth Schmidt Chocolat by Joanne Harris Review by Nancy Willard Three-Legged Horse by Cheng Ching-wen Review by Guanlong Cao Out of the Woods: Stories by Chris Offutt Review by Leon Rooke Nine Below Zero by Kevin Canty Review by Kit Reed The Collector of Hearts: New Tales of the Grotesque by Joyce Carol Oates Review by Margot Livesey Books In Brief: The Promised Land by Ruhama Veltfort Review by Sandee Brawarsky Where the Rainbow Ends by Jameson Currier Review by Erik Burns Lila Says by Chimo Review by Stacey D'Erasimo Wingtips by Avery Chenoweth Review by Nora Krug Stopping for Green Lights by Alyce Miller Review by Linda Barrett Osborne Washington Post Book World Heads by Harry by Lois-Ann Yamanaka Review by Georgia Jones-Davis Mosquito by Gayl Jones Review by Jabari Asim November 1916 by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Review by Ellendea Proffer The Gardens of Light by Amin Maalouf Review by Wendy Orent Philadelphia Inquirer Charlotte Gray by Sebastian Faulks Review by Karen Heller Incubus by Ann Arensberg Review by Darrell Schweitzer San Francisco Chronicle Return of Little Big Man by Thomas Berger Review by Nathan Ward The Travelling Horn Player by Barbara Trapido Review by Carey Harrison The River Midnight by Lilian Nattel Review by Sarah Coleman Survivor by Chuck Palaniuk Review by Andrew Roe Freedom Song by Amit Chaudhuri Review by David Wiegand Right Here, Right Now by Trey Ellis Review by David Lazarus St. Louis Post-Dispatch Incubus by Ann Arensberg Review by Susan C. Thomson Windfall by James Magnuson Review by Harry Levins Messiah by Andrei Codrescu Review by Dale Singer LA Times Fredy Neptune: A Novel in Verse by Less Murray Review by Jonathan Levy The Handyman by Carolyn See Review by Herbert Gold First Fiction: East Bay Grease by Eric Miles Williamson Life in thr Air Ocean by Sylvia Foley East of A by Russell Atwood The Pollen Room by Zoe Jenny; Translated from the German by Elizabeth Gaffney Thumbelina by Andrea Koenig Review by Mark Rozzo February List Fiction Review Source Main Page Comments and Suggestions About this Site