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Sunday October 31, 1999
New York Times Book Review
Lo's Diary by Pia Pera
Review by Mim Udovitch
Ice Fire Water: A Leib Goldkorn Cocktail by Leslie Epstein
Review by D.T. Max
Big Trouble by Dave Barry
Review by Kinky Friedman
Thumbsucker by Walter Kirn
Review by Richard Eder
Rebellion by Joseph Roth
Review by Peter Filkins
The Abyssinian by Jean-Christophe Rufin
Review by David A. Bell
Fencing the Sky by James Galvin
Review by Timothy Foote
House Fires by Nancy Reisman
Review by Meghan O'Rourke
Books in Brief:
Big Ugly by William F. Weld
Review by Erik Tarloff
Slapboxing with Jesus by Victor D. LaValle
Review by Ray Sawhill
Three Women by Marge Peircy
Review by Betsy Groban
Rain Mirror: New Poems by Michael McClure
Review by Ken Tucker
Homework by Suneeta Peres da Costa
Review by Nina Sonnenberg
The Serpent Club by Tom Coffey
Review by Charles Wilson
Washington Post Book World
A Star Called Henry by Roddy Doyle
Review by James Hynes
The Sub by Thomas M. Disch
Review by Elizabeth Hand
Fountain Society by Wes Craven
Review by Charles Wilson
Philadelphia Inquirer
Motherless Brooklyn by Jonathan Lethem
Review by Carlin Romano
Remember Me by Laura Hendrie
Review by Peter Landry
San Francisco Chronicle
Blood, Tin, Straw by Sharon Olds
Review by Allan M. Jalon
Losing Nelson by Barry Unsworth
Review by Jules Siegel
The Hindenburg Crashes Nightly by Greg Hrbek
Review by Paul Signorelli
Perv -- A Love Story by Jerry Stahl
Review by Brian Bouldrey
As It Is In Heaven by Niall Williams
Review by Jim Doyle
LA Times
Enchanted Night by Steven Milhauser
Review by Jonathan Levi
The Eternal Footman by James Morrow
Review by Peter Green
Ice Fire Water by Leslie Epstein
Review by Steven G. Kellman
The Interior by Lisa See
Review by Susan Spano
First Fiction:
Naked Pueblo by Mark Jude Poirer
Paisley Girl by Fran Gordon
Eddie's Bastard by William Kowalski
Review by Mark Rozzo
Discoveries:
Fencing the Sky by James Galvin
Welding with Children by Tim Gautreaux
Review by Susan Salter Reynolds
Sunday October 24, 1999
New York Times Book Review
Personal Injuries by Scott Turow
Review by Gary Krist
Waiting by Ha Jin
Review by Francine Prose
Lovers for a Day by Ivan Klima
Review by Andrew Miller
Somewhere in France by John Rolfe Gardiner
Review by Miranda Seymour
Daughter of Fortune by Isabel Allende
Review by Ruth Lopez
The 27th Kingdom by Alice Thomas Ellis
Review by Brooke Allen
The Cape: And Other Stories from the Japanese Ghetto by Kenji
Nakagami
Review by Mark Morris
The Book of Franza & Requiem for Fanny Goldmann by Ingeborg Bachmann
Review by Suzanne Ruta
The Edge of Marriage by Hester Kaplan
Review by Sarah Ferguson
The Story of a Million Years by David Huddle
Review by Polly Shulman
The Collected Tales and Fantasies of Lord Berners
Review by David Finkle
Books in Brief:
The Society of Friends by Kelly Cherry
Review by Megan Harlan
The Adventures of Allegra Fullerton, Or, A Memoir of Startling and
Amusing Episodes from Itinerant Life by Robert J. Begiebing
Review by Maud Casey
Living Glimmering Lying by Botho Strauss
Review by Noah Isenberg
Soldier in Paradise by John Mort
Review by David L. Ulin
How Aliens Thinks: Stories by Judith Grossman
Review by Melanie Rehak
Harlem Gallery and Other Poems by Melvin B. Tolson
Review by Matthew Flamm
Washington Post Book World
First Snow on Fuji by Yasunari Kawabata
Review by Thomas Rimer
The Last Life by Claire Messud
Review by John Crowley
Enchanted Night by Steven Millhauser
Review by Michael Dirda
San Francisco Chronicle
In Concert Performance by Nikolai Dezhnev
Review by Jill Laurie Goodman
Bagombo Snuff Box by Kurt Vonnegut
Review by Noah Hawley
The Descent by Jeff Long
Review by David Lazarus
Ahab's Wife by Sena Jeter Naslund
Review by Hershel Parker
Philadelphia Inquirer
Losing Nelson by Barry Unsworth
Review by David Walton
LA Times
Waiting by Ha Jin
Review by Peter Green
The Catastrophist by Ronan Bennett
Review by Adam Hochschild
The Cigarette Girl by Carol Wolper
Review by Rachel Resnick
The Return and Other Stories by Andrei Platonov
Review by Leslie Chamberlain
Discoveries:
The Mark of and Angel by Nancy Huston
The Peking Letter by Seymour Topping
Review by Susan Salter Reynolds
Friday October 22, 1999
White Rose by Amy Ephron
Review by Carolyn See
Sunday October 17, 1999
New York Times Book Review
Motherless Brooklyn by Jonathan Lethem
Review by Albert Mobilio
The Dangerous Husband by Jane Shapiro
Review by Karen Karbo
First Snow on Fuji by Yasunari Kawabata
Review by Mary Jo Salter
The Interior by Lisa See
Review by Jon Garelick
Taking the Wall: Stories by Jonis Agee
The Weight of Dreams by Jonis Agee
Review by Stewart Kellerman
The Ladies Auxiliary by Tova Mirvis
Review by Roy Hoffman
Leading the Cheers by Justin Cartwright
Review by Valerie Sayers
Bad Jews: And Other Stories by Gerald Shapiro
Review by Elena Lappin
The True History of Paradise by Margaret Cezair-Thompson
Review by Madison Smartt Bell
Books in Brief:
Fool by Frederick G. Dillen
Review by Laura Morgan Green
A Boy in Winter by Maxine Chernoff
Review by Katherine Wolff
At the Full and Change of the Moon by Dionne Brand
Review by William Ferguson
White Rose by Amy Ephron
Review by Ruth Coughlin
The Divine Ryans by Wayne Johnston
Review by Sally Eckoff
Night Game by Greg Jenkins
Review by James Polk
Washington Post Book World
In the Family Way by Lynne Sharon Schwartz
Review by Laura Miller
The Fall of the Year by Howard Frank Mosher
Review by Sudip Bose
All Tomorrow's Parties by William Gibson
Review by Michael Dirda
Losing Nelson by Barry Unsworth
Review by Jonathan Yardley
San Francisco Chronicle
A Star Called Henry by Roddy Doyle
Review by Brian Bouldrey
The Visitors and Fred and Madge by Joe Orton
Between Us Girls by Joe Orton
Review by David Ehrenstein
My Father Dancing: Stories by Bliss Broyard
Review by Frances Phillips
Walkin' the Dog by Walter Mosley
Review by Tom Nolan
The Goodlife by Keith Scribner
Men on the Moon by Simon Ortiz
Lawnboy by Paul Lisicky
Distance No Object by Gloria Frym
Meeting Luciano by Anna Esaki-Smith
Review by John Perry
Thumbsucker by Walter Kirn
Review by Christopher Hawthorne
LA Times
Lost by Hans-Ulrich Treichel
Review by Jonathan Levi
The Girls by Helen Yglesias
Review by Naomi Glauberman
First Fiction
Before You Sleep by Linn Ullmann
Shadow-Box by Antonia Logue
Going to Pot by Jill Laurimore
Review by Mark Rozzo
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Jumping the Green by Leslie Schwartz
Review by Denise Smith Amos
The Last Life by Claire Messud
Review by Jan Garden Castro
Friday October 15, 1999
Washington Post
The Book Borrower by Alice Mattison
Review by Carolyn See
Thursday October 14, 1999
Washington Post
Mr. X by Peter Straub
Review by Mike Musgrove
Tuesday October 12, 1999
Washington Post
Outcast by Jose Latour
Review by Richard Lipez
Monday October 11, 1999
New York Times
The Industry of Souls by Martin Booth
Review by Richard Eder
Sunday October 10, 1999
New York Times Book Review
Gap Creek by Robert Morgan
Review by Dwight Garner
The Complete Stories of Evelyn Waugh
Review by Richard Eder
The Pleasing Hour by Lily King
Review by Jacqueline Carey
Deep Background by David Corn
Review by James Polk
Before You Sleep by Linn Ullmann
Review by Caryn James
The Long Firm by Jake Arnott
Review by Henry Shukman
The Book Borrower by Alice Mattison
Review by Lore Dickstein
Books in Brief:
Say Goodbye: The Laurie Moss Story by Lewis Shiner
Review by Mark Athitakis
The Brass Dolphin by Janna Trollope
Review by Eden Ross Lipson
We Can Report Them by Michael Brodsky
Review by Kristin Eliasberg
The Crimes of Charlotte Bronte by James Tully
Review by Dana Kennedy
My Very Last Possession: And Other Stories by Pak Wanso
Review by Janice P. Nimura
Washington Post Book World
Having Everything by John L"Heureux
Review by Lev Raphael
A Gesture Life by Chang-rae Lee
Review by John Derbyshire
Plainsong by Kent Haruf
Review by Richard Tillinghast
San Francisco Chronicle
Leaping Man Hill by Carol Emshwiller
Review by Gerald Haslam
The Edna Webster Collection of Undiscovered Writings by Richard
Brautigan
Review by William Hjortsberg
Having Everything by John LHeureax
Review by Erik Tarloff
The Language of Threads by Gail Tsukiyama
Review by Sunil Iyengar
Cracks by Sheila Kohler
Review by David Wiegand
Our Fathers by Andrew O'Hagan
Review by Melvin Jules Bukiet
Philadelphia Inquirer
Bagombo Snuff Box: Uncollected Short Fiction by Kurt Vonnegut
Review by Peter Landry
LA Times
Daughter of Fortune by Isabel Allende
Review by Thomas Curwen
Losing Nelson by Barry Unsworth
Review by Jonathan Levi
Ahab's Wife by Sena Jeter Naslund
Review by Jane Smiley
Hitler's Niece by Ron Hansen
Review by Peter Green
Personal Injuries by Scott Turow
Review by Tom Nolan
Discoveries:
The Genius of Affection by Marilyn Sides
In the Family Way by Lynne Sharon Schwartz
A Walk to Remember by Nicholas Sparks
Review by Susan Salter Reynolds
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Plainsong by Kent Haruf
Review by Colleen Kelly Warren
Sunday October 3, 1999
New York Times Book Review
Plainsong by Kent Haruf
Review by Verlyn Klinkenborg
Ahab's Wife: Or, The Star-Gazer by Sena Jeter Naslund
Review by Stacey D'Erasmo
Hitler's Niece by Ron Hansen
Review by Richard Lourie
Our Fathers by Andrew O'Hagan
Review by Jeff Giles
Welding with Children by Tim Gautreaux
Review by Liam Callanan
The Catastrophist by Ronan Bennett
Review by Rand Richards Cooper
Books in Brief:
A Bar in Brooklyn by Andrei Codrescu
Review by Jon Garelick
The Sun King by David Ignatius
Review by David Walton
A Thirst For Rain by Roslyn Carrington
Review by Anderson Tepper
Altar Ego by Kathy Lette
Review by Lily Burana
What It Takes to Get To Vegas by Yxta Maya Murray
Review by Barbara Sutton
Washington Post Book World
The Sun Kings by David Ignatius
Review by John Katzenbach
The Catastrophist by Ronan Bennett
Review by Claire Messud
Personal Injuries by Scott Turow
Review by Dennis Drabelle
San Francisco Chronicle
PU-239 and Other Russian Fantasies by Ken Kalfus
Review by Andrew Roe
Welding With Children by Tim Gautreaux
Review by Daniel Orozco
The Summer of '39 by Miranda Seymour
Review by Sarah Saffian
Haunted Traveller: An Imaginary Memoir by Barry Yourgrau
Review by Sarah Van Arsdale
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Personal Injuries by Scott Turow
Review by Harry Levins
Ahab's Wife by Sena Jeter Naslund
Review by Lee Ann Sandweiss
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