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JULY | 
   
Monday July 27, 1998 
New York Times 
Too Cool by Duff Brenna
 Review by Richard Bernstein 
  
Sunday July 26, 1998 
New York Times 
The Rings of Saturn by W.G. Sebald
 Review by Roberta Silman 
 
This is My Daughter by Roxana Robinson
 Review by Diana Postlethwaite 
 
Thirst by Ken Kalfus
 Review by Ron Carlson 
 
The Black Brook by Tom Drury
 Review by Luc Sante 
 
Cordelia Underwood: Or the Marvelous Beginnings of the Moosepath
League 
by Van Reid
 Review by Kit Reed 
 
The Exes by Pagan Kennedy
 Review by Stephen J. Dubner 
 
Dog Days by Daniel Lyons
 Review by J.D. Biersdorfer 
 
Books in Brief: 
Ghost Children by Sue Townsend
 Review by Allen Lincoln 
 
Days of Our Lives Lie in Fragments: New and Old Poems, 1957-1997 
 by George Garrett
 Review by Garner McFall 
 
My Year of Meats by Ruth L. Ozeki
 Review by Lisa Funderburg 
 
Calvert Casey: the Collected Stories by Calvert Casey
 Review by James Polk 
 
Koolaids by Rabih Alameddine
 Review by Mark Lindquist 
 
Articles of Faith by Robert L. Rudin
 Review by Andy Solomon 
 
San Francisco Chronicle 
A Crowded Heart by Nicholas Papandreou
 Review by Catherine Temma Davidson 
 
Misadventures in the (213) by Dennis Hensley
 Review by Brian Gunn 
 
This is My Daughter by Roxana Robinson 
 Review by Melissa Levine 
 
A Conspiracy of Tall Men by Noah Hawley
 Review by Marc Igler 
 
nixoncarver by Mark Maxwell
 Review by Robert Gluck 
 
I Know This Much is True by Wally Lamb
 Review by Erika Taylor 
 
Washington Post Book World 
Mrs. Einstein by Anna McGrail
 Review by Jay Parini 
 
The Notebooks of Don Rigoberto by Mario Vargas Llosa
 Review by John Derbyshire 
 
Philadelphia Inquirer 
Turnip Blues by Helen Campbell
 Review by Susan Balee 
 
The Notebooks of Don Rigoberto by Mario Vargas Llosa
 Review by Georgia Jones-Davis 
 
Antarctica by Kim Stanley Robinson
 Review by Gregory Feeley 
 
The Iron Bridge by David Morse
 Review by Gregory Frost 
 
The Fall of a Sparrow by Robert Hellenga
 Review by Ann Morrissett Davidon 
 
LA Times 
My Heart Laid Bare by Joyce Carol Oates
 Review by Jeff Turrentine 
  
Sunday July 19, 1998 
New York Times Book Review 
Secrets by Nuriddin Farah
 Review by George Packer 
 
Hullabaloo in the Guava Orchard by Kiran Desai
 Review by Zia Jaffrey 
 
On the Occasion of My Last Afternoon by Kaye Gibbons
 Review by Kathryn Harrison 
 
The Boy by Naeem Murr
 Review by Margot Livesey 
 
Penn Greek Drama Series
 Review by Daniel Mendelsohn 
 
Going East: Poems by Frederick Seidel
 Review by Melanie Rehak 
 
Final Vinyl Days: And Other Stories by Jill McCorkle
 Review by Meg Wolitzer 
 
The Inn at Lake Devine by Elinor Lipman
 Review by Lore Dickstein 
 
Books in Brief: 
Weird Women, Wired Women by Kit Reed
 Review by Enid Shomer 
 
Lambs of God by Marele Day
 Review by Julie Gray 
 
Dreamer by Jack Butler
 Review by Bill Hayes 
 
Summer Sisters by Judy Blume
 Review by Ruth Coughlin 
 
The Last Kabbalist of Lisbon by Richard Zimler
 Review by Erik Burns 
 
Justine by Alice Thompson
 Review by Jennifer Kornreich 
 
Washington Post Book World 
Apples From the Desert: Selected Stories by Savyon Liebrecht
 Review by Beryl Lieff Benderly 
 
Strachey's Folly by Richard Stevenson
 Review by Carolyn Banks 
 
The Last Resort by Alison Lurie
 Review by Jonathan Yardley 
 
Philadelphia Inquirer 
Gain by Richard Powers
 Review by Gregory Feeley 
 
Gone for Good by Mark Childress
 Review by Roger Catlin 
 
 
The Exes by Pagan Kennedy
 Review by Paula Friedman 
 
The Service of Clouds by Delia Falconer
 Review by James Held 
 
Dreamer by Charles Johnson
 Review by Farah Jasmine Griffin 
 
Secrets by Nurrudin Farah
 Review by T. Obinkaram Echewa 
  
San Francisco Chronicle 
The Last Resort by Alison Lurie
 Review by Sarah Coleman 
 
 
The Girl in the Flammable Suit by Aimee Bender 
 Review by Carol Lloyd 
 
The Flower in the Skull by Kathleen Alcala
 Review by Melissa Levine 
 
LA Times 
Talking to the Dead and
Your Blue-Eyed Boy  by Helen Dumore
 Review by Phyllis Richardson 
 
Object of Your Love: Stories by Dorothy Speak 
The Nightbird Cantata by Donald Rawley 
A German Picturesque by Jason Schwartz 
Ahmed's Revenge by Richard Wiley 
 Review by Susan Salter Reynolds 
  
Wednesday July 15, 1998 
New York Times 
Once Upon the River Love by Andrei Makine
Review by Richard Bernstein 
  
Monday July 13, 1998 
New York Times 
Lucky Bastard by Charles McGarry
Review by Christopher Lehmann-Haupt 
  
Sunday July 12, 1998 
New York Times Book Review 
The Last Resort by Alison Lurie
Review by Francine Prose 
 
Roxanna Slade by Reynolds Price
Review by Janet Burroway 
 
Missing Women and Others: Stories by June Spence
Review by Laura Miller 
 
Bombay Ice by Leslie Forbes
Review by Jamie James 
 
Cocaine Nights by J.G. Ballard
Review by A. O. Scott 
 
The Dumb House: A Chamber Novel by John Burnside
Review by James Saynor 
 
Cupid and Diana by Chrisina Bartolomeo
Review by Valerie Frankel 
 
Vain Empires: Poems by William Logan
Review by Henry Taylor 
 
Fear by Simon Lane
Review by Tobin Harshaw 
 
Quite a Year for Plums by Bailey White
Review by Tom Drury 
 
Books in Brief: 
Defiance by Carole Maso
Review by Patrick Farrell 
 
The Overseer by Jonathan Rabb
Review by Charles Salzberg 
 
Mrs. Einstein by Anna McGrail
Review by Willaim Ferguson 
 
The Buddha in Malibu by William Harrison
Review by Paula Freidman 
 
The Sinoloa Story by Barry Gifford
Review by Anthony Bourdain 
 
Washington Post Book World 
Ghost Country by Sara Paretsky
Review by Grace Lichtenstein 
 
On the Occasion of My Last Afternoon by Kaye Gibbons
Review by Susan Dood 
 
This is My Daughter by Roxanna Robinson
Review by Susan Goodman 
 
Lucky Bastard by Charles McGarry
Review by Jonathan Yardley  
 
San Francisco Chronicle 
Where the Sea Used to Be by Rick Bass
Review by Michale Barnard  
 
Final Vinyl by Jill McCorkle
Review by Courtney Weaver 
 
Inhuman Beings by Jerry Jay Carroll
Review by Andy Solomon 
 
LA Times 
A World Away by Stewart O'Nan
Review by Richard Eder 
 
I Know This Much is True by Wally lamb
Review by Jean Hanff Korelitz 
 
Philadelphia Inquirer 
Park City, New and Selected Stories by Ann Beattie
Review by Roland Kelts 
 
Bombay Ice by Leslie Forbes
Review by David Walton 
 
Sunset Limited by James Lee Burke
Review by David Delman  
  
Tuesday July 7, 1998 
New York Times 
About a Boy by Nick Hornby
 Review by Michiko Kakutani 
 
Washington Post 
Where the Sea Used to Be by Rick Bass
 Review by David Nicholson 
  
Monday July 6, 1998 
New York Times 
The Snake Charmer by Sanjay Nigam
 Review by Richard Bernstein 
 
Washington Post 
Kalimantaan by C.S. Godshalk
Review by Wendy Orent 
  
Sunday July 5, 1998 
New York Times Book Review 
My Heart Laid Bare by Joyce Carol Oates
 Review by Sarah Kerr 
 
Salvation and Other Disasters: Short Stores by Josip Novakovich
 Review by William Cobb 
 
Gettin It in the Head by Mike McCormack
 Review by Michael Upchurch 
 
Books in Brief 
 
Stripping Away the Sorrows From This World by Jesus Gardea
 Review by James Polk 
 
Blues for Hannah By Timm Farrington
 Review by Zofia Smarbe 
 
Nineteen to the Dozen by Sholom Aleichem
 Review by Sander Brawarsky 
 
Good Fences by Erika Ellis
 Review by Betsy Groban 
 
The Fire Gospels by Mike Magnuson
 Review by Erik Burns 
 
Highway Trade by John Domini
 Review by Norah Vincent 
 
Washington Post Book World 
I know this Much is True by Wally Lamb
 Review by Mary Kay Zuravleff 
 
Gain by Richard Powers
 Review by Thomas M. Disch 
 
Caprice and Rondo by Dorothy Dunnett
 Review by Brian Jacomb 
 
Bridget Jones's Diary by Helen Fielding
 Review by Tamsin Todd 
 
A World Away by Stewart O'Nan
 Review by Peter McCarthy 
 
Bombay Ice by Leslie Forbes
 Review by Shashi Tharoor 
 
How it all Began by Nicolai Bukharin
 Review by Oleg D. Kalugin 
 
Philadelphia Inquirer 
A Widow for One Year by John Irving
 Review by Peter Landry 
 
This is My Daughter by Roxanna Robinson
 Review by Carole Goldberg 
 
Fairy Tale by Alice Thomas Ellis
 Review by Frank Wilson 
 
San Francisco Chronicle 
Gaff Topsails by Patrick Kavanaugh
 Review by Kein Berger 
 
The Treatment by Daniel Menaker
 Review by Elizabeth Judd 
 
Secrets by Nuruddin Farah
 Review by Lisa Meyer 
 
Sunset Limited by James Lee Burke 
 Review by Joe Gores 
 
Grace: A Fictional Memoir by Robert Ward
 Review by Robert Ward 
LA Times 
Too Cool by Duff Brenna 
Ingratitude by Ying Chen 
The Iron Bridge by David Morse 
The Lake Dreams of the Sky by Swain Wolfe 
The Exes by Pagan Kennedy 
 Review by Susan Salter Reynolds 
  
Friday July 3, 1998 
New York Times 
The Last Resort by Alison Lurie
 Review by Michiko Kakutani 
 
LA Times  
Gone for Good by Mark Childress
 Review by Merle Rubin 
  
 
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