November 2000 |
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Sunday November 26, 2000
New York Times Book Review
The Means of Escape by Penelope Fitzgerald
Review by Richard Eder
The Law of Averages by Frederick Barthelme
Review by Will Blythe
The Greatest of Marlys by Lynda Barry
Julius Knipl, Real Estate Photographer by Ben Katchor
David Boring by Daniel Clowes
Jimmy Corrigan: The Smartest Kid on Earth by Chris Ware
Review by Dave Eggers
Boone's Lick by Larry McMurtry
Review by Karen Karbo
The Best of Jackson Payne by Jack Fuller
Review by Jeff Waggoner
Books in Brief:
The Fisher King by Paule Marshall
Review by Lori Leibovich
Esau and Jacob by Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis
Review by Jenny McPhee
The Happiest Days by Cressida Connolly
Review by Elizabeth Judd
Hero of the Underworld by Jimmy Boyle
Review by Jennifer Reese
The Visitor by Maeve Brennan
Review by Michael Porter
Washington Post Book World
Schmidt Delivered by Louis Begley
Review by Carolyn See
The Diagnosis by Alan Lightman
Review by James Hynes
Mall by Eric Bogosian
Review by Chris Lehmann
San Francisco Chronicle
Jimmy Corrigan by Chris Ware
Review by Chris Lanier
Boone's Lick by Larry McMurtry
Review by David Lazarus
The Hand of Buddha by Linda Watanabe
Review by Karen Kevorkian
Bloodroot by Aaron Roy Even
Review by Richard Wallace
Philadelphia Inquirer
The Means of Escape by Penelope Fitzgerald
Review by Maggie Galehouse
The Way Forward Is With a Broken Heart by Alice Walker
Review by Susan Balee
LA Times
Too Far Afield by Gunter Grass
Review by Thomas McGonigle
The Abomination by Paul Golding
Review by Jonathan Levi
Off Keck Road by Mona Simpson
Review by Michael Frank
Discoveries:
Guess Again: Short Stories by Bernard Cooper
Review by Susan Salter Reynolds
Chicago Tribune
Off Keck Road by Mona Simpson
Shopgirl by Steve Martin
Review by Alan Cheuse
Acts of God by Amry Morris
Review by Carolyn Alessio
An Eighth of August by Dawn Turner Trice
Review by Jeffrey Renard Allen
You Are Here by Paul Bresliin
Supernatural Love by Gjertrud Schnackenberg
The Determined Days by Philip Stephens
North Street by Jonathan Galassi
Review by Eric Murphy
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Tuesday November 21, 2000
Lying Awake by Mark Salzman
Review by Richard Eder
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Monday November 20, 2000
Mall by Eric Bogosian
Review by Janet Maslin
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Sunday November 19, 2000
New York Times Book Review
The Elementary Particles by Michel Houellebecq
Review by Anthony Quinn
Disobedience by Jane Hamilton
Review by Sylvia Brownrigg
Licks of Love by John Updike
Review by A.O. Scott
Lying Awake by Mark Salzman
Review by Louis Bayard
Louisa by Simone Zelitch
Review by David Sacks
Books in Brief:
The Powerbook by Jeanette Winterson
Review by David Galef
Zeitgeist by Bruce Sterling
Review by Jon Garelick
Write Letter to Billy by Toby Olson
William Ferguson
The Aerialist by Richard Schmitt
Review by Emily Hall
Guess Again by Bernard Cooper
Review by Charles Wilson
Washington Post Book World
The Truth by Terry Pratchett
Review by Michael Dirda
The Quick and the Dead by Joy Williams
Review by Lisa Tuttle
Prodigal Summer by Barbara Kingsolver
Review by Daniel Woodrell
Philadelphia Inquirer
Too Far Afield by Gunter Grass
Review by Carlin Romano
Confessions of a Fallen Standard Bearer by Andrei Makine
Review by Andrew C. Ervine
After the War by Alice Adams
Review by Martha Woodall
Chicago Tribune
The Night Listener by Armistead Maupin
Review by Vanessa Gezari
What She Saw by Lucinda Rosenfeld
Review by Miranda Schwartz
The White Man in the Tree by Mark Kurlansky
Review by Keir Graff
St. Louis Post Dispatch
Lick of Love by John Updike
Review by Peter Wolfe
LA Times
Discoveries:
Licks of Love by John Updike
On a Dark Night I Left My Silent House by Peter Handke
Review by Susan Salter Reynolds
First Fiction:
Diamond Dogs by Alan Watt
The Collapsible World by Anne N. Marino
Where I'm Bound by Allen B. Ballard
Review by Mark Rozzo
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Sunday November 12, 2000
New York Times Book Review
The Years With Laura Diaz by Carlos Fuentes
Review by Richard Eder
Off Keck Road by Mona Simpson
Review by Stacey D'Erasmo
Don't Tell Anyone by Frederick Busch
Review by Margot Livesey
Alice Falling by William Wall
Review by Kathryn Harrison
Head: Stories by Willaim Tester
Review by Scott Bradfield
In The Snow Forest: Three Novellas by Roy Parvin
Review by Tobin Harshaw
Books in Brief:
Something Special by Iris Murdoch
Review by Stephen Amidon
All We Know of Love by Katie Schneider
Review by Barbara Fisher
The Last Lover by Laura Van Warmer
Review by Diane Cole
Dictionary of Modern Anguish
Review by William Ferguson
ZombieOO by Brad Gooch
Review by David Yaffe
The House of Blue Light by David Kirby
Review by Megan Harlan
Washington Post Book World
Shadows of Glory by Owen Parry
Review by Sudip Bose
Don't Tell Anyone by Frederick Busch
Review by David Guy
Eduard's Homecoming by Peter Schneider
Review by Adam Kirsch
San Francisco Chronicle
Innocence by Jane Mendelsohn
Review by Monica Wood
Don't Tell Anyone by Frederick Busch
Review by Jacob Molyneux
Too Far Afield by Gunter Grass
Review by Francie Lin
Mrs. Hollingsworth Men by Padgett Powell
Review by Ken Foster
The Golden Age by Gore Vidal
Review by Brendan Bernhard
Acts of God by Mary Morris
Review by Marit Haahr
Philadelphia Inquirer
The Amber Spyglass by Philip Pullman
Review by Ann Waldron
Chicago Tribune
Loving Graham Greene by Gloria Emerson
Review by Sandra Scofield
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Klay by Michael Chabon
David Boring by Daniel Clowes
Jimmy Corrigan by Chris Ware
Review by Jeremy Smith
Don't Tell Anyone by Frederick Busch
Review by Robert Allen Papinchak
I Like Being Killed by Tibor Fischer
Review by David L. Ulin
St. Louis Post Dispatch
Boone's Lick by Larry McMurtry
Review by Harry Levins
Disobedience by Jane Hamilton
Review by Lucy Ferriss
Too Far Afield by Gunter Grass
Review by Peter Wolfe
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Friday November 10, 2000
New York Times
The Elementary Particles by Michel Houellebecq
Review by Michiko Kakutani
Washington Post
Blood and Guile by William Hoffman
Review by Carolyn See
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Tuesday November 7, 2000
New York Times
Licks of Love: Short Stories and a Sequel by John Updike
Review by Michiko Kakutani
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Monday November 6, 2000
New York Times
The Ice Harvest by Scott Phillips
Review by Janet Maslin
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Sunday November 5, 2000
New York Times Book Review
Master of the Crossroads by Madison Smartt Bell
Review by Jay Parini
Too Far Afield by Gunter Grass
Review by James J. Sheehan
Pobby and Dingan by Ben Rice
Review by Jeff Giles
Time's Fool: A Tale in Verse by Glyn Maxwell
The Boys at Twilight: Poems 1990-1995 by Glyn Maxwell
Review by Langdon Hammer
Mrs. Hollingsworth's Men by Padgett Powell
Review by Robert Kelly
Several Deceptions by Jane Stevenson
Review by Paul Baumann
Prodigal Summer by Barbara Kingsolver
Review by Jennifer Schuessler
Books in Brief:
The Song and the Truth by Helga Ruebgsamen
Review by Gardner McFall
How All This Started by Pete Fromm
Review by Maud Casey
Stone Field, True Arrow by Kyoko Mori
Review by Jeff Waggoner
Nearer Than the Sky by T. Greenwood
Review by Mary Elizabeth Williams
Mrs. Shakespeare: The Complete Works by Robert Nye
Review by William Ferguson
Washington Post Book World
Where I'm Bound by Allen B. Ballard
Review by William S. McFeely
My Father's Court by Isaac Bashevis Singer
Review by Adam Kirsch
Master of the Crossroads by Madison Smartt Bell
Review by Sudip Bose
San Francisco Chronicle
The Law of Averages; New & Selected Stories by Frederick Barthelme
Review by Ken Foster
The Quick and the Dead by Joy Williams
Review by Cristina Nehring
The Throne of Labdacus by Gjertrud Schnackenberg
Supernatural Love by Gjertrud Schnackenberg
Review by Cynthia Haven
Love by Peter Nadas
Review by Drew Cherry
The Beast God Forgot To Invent by Jim Harrison
Review by Ron Franscell
Philadelphia Inquirer
The Bottoms by Joe R. Lansdale
Review by Lee Winfrey
LA Times
Don't Tell Anyone by Frederick Busch
Review by Jonathan Levi
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