Fiction Review Source: A Literary Link to Current Fiction
November 2000

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

    Tuesday November 21, 2000
  • Lying Awake by Mark Salzman Review by Richard Eder

    Monday November 20, 2000
  • Mall by Eric Bogosian Review by Janet Maslin

    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

    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

    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

    Tuesday November 7, 2000
    New York Times
  • Licks of Love: Short Stories and a Sequel by John Updike Review by Michiko Kakutani

    Monday November 6, 2000
    New York Times
  • The Ice Harvest by Scott Phillips Review by Janet Maslin

    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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