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MARCH |
Sunday, March 29, 1998
New York Times Book Review
The Castle: a New Translation by Franz Kafka
Review by Jeremy Adler
The Hunt Club by Bret Lott
Review by Robert Polito
Solibo Magnificent by Patrick Chamoiseau
Review by Caryl Phillips
The House of Sleep by Jonathan Coe
Review by Suzanne Berne
James Baldwin: Early Novels and Stories
Review by Michael Anderson
Inheritance by Indira Ganesan
Review by Edward Hower
God is my Broker by Brother Ty with Christopher Buckley
Review by Dwight Garner
The Fiery Pantheon by Nancy Lemann
Review by Julia Reed
Books in Brief:
Kissing the Beehive by Jonathan Carroll
Review by Malachy Duffy
Was it Something I Said by Valerie Block
Review by Karen Angel
First Love and Look For My Obituary by Elena Garro
Review by Peter Bricklebank
High Holiday Sutra by Allan Apel
Review by Fran Handman
The Last Voyage ond other Stories by James Hanley
Review by Erik Burns
Washington Post Book World
A Much Younger Man by Dianne Highbridge
Review by Susan Dooley
The Fiery Pantheon by Nancy Lemann
Review by Mary Kay Zuravleff
Philadelphia Inquirer
Karoo by Steve Tesich
Review by Brian Leighton
San Francisco Chronicle
The Antelope Wife by Louise Erdrich
Review by Paul Skenazy
The Short History of a Prince by Jane Hamilton
Review by Mary Mackey
Enduring Love by Ian McEwan
Review by Alix Madrigal
LATimes
The Short History of a Prince by Jane Hamilton
Review by Richard Eder
Los Angeles Times Book Prizes for 1997
Fiction: In the Rogue Blood by James Carlos Blake
Poetry: Black Zodiac by Charles Wright
The Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction:
Don't Erase Me by Carolyn Ferrell
Friday, March 27, 1998
New York Times
The Page Turner by David Leavitt
Review by Michiko Kakutani
Washington Post
Oyster by Janette Turner Hospital
Review by Carolyn See
Thursday, March 26, 1998
New York Times
The Rich Man's Table by Scott Spencer
Review by Christopher Lehmann-Haupt
Footlights:
National Book Critics Circle award for fiction to Penelope Fitzgerald
for the novel "The Blue Flower."
Wednesday, March 25, 1998
New York Times
Nosferatu by Jim Shepard
Review by Richard Bernstein
Footlights:
Novelist Charlotte Bacon has been named winner of the Hemingway
Foundation/PEN Award for a distinguished first fiction, for her novel
"A Private State."
Tuesday, March 24, 1998
New York Times
The Antelope Wife by Louise Erdrich
Review by Michiko Kakutani
Monday, March 23, 1998
New York Times
Solibo Magnificent by Patrick Chamoiseau
Review by Richard Bernstein
Sunday, March 22, 1998
New York Times Book Review
Singing into the Piano by Ted Mooney
Review by Sarah Kerr
Oyster by Janette Turner Hospital
Reviewed by Dale Peck
An Instance of the Fingerpost by Iain Pears
Review by Andrew Miller
Mendel's Dwarf by Simon Mawer
Review by Franicine Prose
Pride by Lorene Cary
Review by Michael Rovner
The Ultimate Rush by Joe Quirk
Review by Bruno Maddox
Books in Brief:
Fiction:
Loving Chloe by Jo-Ann Mapson
Review by Betsy Groban
The Man who stole the Mona Lisa by Robert Noah
Review by William Ferguson
Another Day in Paradise by Eddie Little
Review by Steve Weinstein
The Light of Falling Stars by J. Robert Lennon
Review by Aoibheann Sweeney
Flesh Wounds by Mick Cochrane
Review by Paula Friedman
The Way to Cobbs Creek by Dabney Stuart
Review by Maggie Garb
Crime:
Man With an Axe by Jon A. Jackson
Review by Marilyn Stasso
Washington Post Book World
Mendel's Dwarf by Simon Mawer
Review by Robin Marantz Henig
The Life of Insects by Victor Pelevin
Review by Anthony Olcott
Holding Out by Anne O. Faulk
Review by Barbara Raskin
Lady Moses by Lucinda Roy
Review by Bonnie Greer
Whistle by Janice Daugharty
Review by Lisa Alther
Philadelphia Inquirer
The Healing by Gayle Jones
Review by N. Graham Nesmith
San Francisco Chronicle
The All-True Travel and Adventures of Lidie Newton by Jane
Smiley
Review by Brigitte Frase
The Ultimate Rush by Joe Quirk
Review by Brad Newsham
This Side of Brightness by Colum McCann
Review by Andy Solomon
Blanche Cleans Up by Barbara Neely
Review by Patricia Turner
Kalimantaan by C.S. Godschalk
Review by Brian St. Pierre
LATimes
This Side of Brightness by Colum McCann
Review by Richard Eder
Thursday March 19, 1998
New York Times
The Smithsonian Institution by Gore Vidal
Review by Christopher Lehmann-Haupt
Sunday March 15, 1998
New York Times Book Review
Delirium by Douglas Cooper
Review by Craig Seligman
Thrones, Dominations by Dorothy L. Sayers
and Jill Paton Walsh
Review by Joyce Carol Oates
Cavedweller by Dorothy Allison
Review by Valerie Sayers
Caucasia by Danzy Senna
Review by Elizabeth Schmidt
The Dower House by Annabel Davis-Goff
Review by Jacqueline Carey
A Scientific Romance by Ronald Wright
Review by John Vernon
Lady Moses by Lucinda Roy
Review by Abby Frucht
Books in Brief:
Persian Brides by Dorit Rabinyan
Review by Michael Lowenthal
Major Washington by Michael Kilian
Review by David Walton
Yesterday Will Make You Cry by Chester Himes
Review by Peter Bricklebank
Solo Variations by Cassandra Garbus
Review by Alissa Quart
State of Mind by John Katzenbach
Review by Scott Veale
Washington Post Book World
Requiem for Harlem by Henry Roth
Review by Sanford Pinsker
Jack Maggs by Peter Carey
Review by James Marcus
The Tattoo Murder Case by Akmitsu Takagi
Review by Dennis Drabelle
Aliens of Affection by Padgett Powell
Review by James Hynes
Someplace To Be Flying by Charles De Lint
Review by Brian Jacomb
Philadelphia Inquirer
Solibo Magnificent by Patrick Chamoiseau
Review by Sandra Scofield
The Smithsonian Institution by Gore Vidal
Review by Tim Warren
LATimes
The Smithsonian Institution by Gore Vidal
Review by Merle Rubin
Birthday Letters by Ted Hughes
Review by Carol Muske
Cavedweller by Dorothy Allison
Review by Phyllis Richardson
San Francisco Chronicle
Cavedweller by Dorothy Allison
Review by Jeanne DuPrau
An Instance of the Fingerpost by Iain Pears
Review by Carey Harrison
The Half-life of Happiness by John Casey
Review by David Wiegand
Thrones and Dominations by Dorothy L. Sayers
and Jill Paton Walsh
Review by Alix Madrigal
Blueback by Tim Winton
Review by Colleen Lindsay
Shiva Dancing by Bharti Kirchner
Review by Reena Jana
Election by Tom Perrotta
Review by Nancy Margolis
Pandora: New Tales of the Vampires by Anne Rice
Review by Robin McEvoy
Bay Area Book Reviewers Association Awards Nominations:
Fiction:
Carson Valley, by Bill Varich (Pantheon)
Sleeping in Velvet, by Thaisa Frank (Black Sparrow)
The Mirror, Lynn Freed (Crown)
Le Divorce, by Diane Johnson (Dutton)
Crooked Little Heart, Anne Lamott (Pantheon)
Saturday, March 14, 1998
Boston Globe
The Black Flower by Howard Bahr
Review by Michael Kenny
Wednesday March 11, 1998
Boston Globe
The Fiery Pantheon by Nancy Lemann
Review by Robert Taylor
Sunday, March 8, 1998
New York Times
Sunday Book Review
Spending: A Utopian Divertimento by Mary Gordon
Review by Hilary Mandel
A Working Girl Can't Win ond other poems by Deborah Garrison
Review by Nicholas Christopher
The Life of Insects by Victor Pelevin
Review by Michael Upchurch
Books In Brief:
Black Glass by Karen Joy Fowler
Review by Jenny McPhee
A Floating Life by Simon Elegant
Review by Philip Gambone
Deconstruction Acres by Tim Brown
Review by Michael Porter
Within these Walls by Luis Arturo Ramos
Review by Anderson Tepper
Desire by Hugo Claus
Washington Post
An Instance of the Fingerpost by Iain Pears
Review by Michael Dirda
Birthday Letters by Ted Hughes
Review by Linda Pastan
33 Moments of Happiness: St. Petersburg Stories by Ingo Schulze
Translated from the German by John E. Woods
Review by Thomas McGonigle
Caucasia by Danzy Senna
Review by Jake Lamar
Philadelphia Inquirer
Spending: A Utopian Divertimento by Mary Gordon
Review by Joan Mellen
A Good Doctor's Son by Steven Schwartz
Review by Bill Kent
Singing in the Comeback Choir by Bebe Moore Campbell
Review by Betsy Willeford
An Instance of the Fingerpost by Iain Pears
Review by David Walton
Black Glass: Short Fictions by Karen Joy Fowler
Review by Kurt Jensen
The File on H by Ismail Kadare
Review by David Bellos
Preston Falls by David Gates
Review by Malcolm Johnson
Jack Maggs by Peter Carey
Review by Lisa Zeidner
Cloudsplitter by Russell Banks
Review by George Garrett
San Francisco Chronicle
Black Glass by Karen Joy Fowler
Review by Sherri Hallgren
Pride by Lorene Cary
Review by Linda Raymond
Blue Bossa by Bart Schneider
Review by Joe Cadora
LATimes
Solibo Magnificent by Patrick Chamoiseau
Review by Richard Eder
Cloudsplitter by Russell Banks
Review by Henry Mayer
An Instance of the Fingerpost by Iain Pears
Review by Alfred MacAdam
Two Guys from Verona by James Kaplan
Review by D.J.Walsh
Boston Globe
Caucasia by Danza Seena
Review by Alisa Valdes
Friday March 6, 1998
New York Times
Shadow Wars by Clyde Farnsworth
Review by George Stade
Thursday March 5, 1998
New York Times
Spending: A Utopian Divertimento by Mary Gordon
Review by Chrostopher Lehmann-Haupt
Sunday, March 1, 1998
New York Times Book Review
Birthday Letters by Ted Hughes
Review by Katha Pollitt
Nobody's Girl by Antonya Nelson
Review by Suzanne Ruta
The Smithsonian Institution by Gore Vidal
Review by Christopher Benfey
A Private State: Stories by Charlotte Bacon
Review by Lisa Zeidner
The File on H by Ismail Kadare
Review by Ken Kalfus
Tales of the Night by Peter Hoeg
Review by Jay Parini
Books in Brief:
The Polish Lover by Anthony Weller
Review by Megan Harlan
High Crimes by Joseph Finder
Review by Scott Veale
Somebody's Child by Dennis A. Williams
Review by Paula Friedman
Where This Lake Is by Jeff Lodge
Review by Erik Burns
Eating Chinese Food Naked by Mei Ng
Review by Lynn Karpen
Unicorn's Blood by Patricia Finney
Review by Julie Gray
Philadelphia Inquirer
Mendel's Dwarf by Simon Mawer
Review by Melvin Jules Bukiet
The Life of Insects by Victor Pelevin
Review by Edward Hower
Eccentric Neighbors by Rosario Ferre
Review by James Polk
Visitors by Anita Brookner
Review by Donald Newlove
LATimes
The House of Sleep by Jonathan Coe
Review by Richard Eder
San Francisco Chronicle
The Smithsonian Institution by Gore Vidal
Review by Po Bronson
Holding Out by Anne O. Faulk
Review by Autumn Stephens
Singing into the Piano by Ted Mooney
Review by Brigitte Frase
Night Of Many Dreams by Gail Tsukiyama
Review by Patricia Abe
In a Land of Plenty by Tim Pears
Review by Casey Harrison
Riven Rock by T.C. Boyle
Review by Benedict Cosgrove
Yesterday Will Make You Cry by Chester Himes
Review by Patricia Turner
The Miracle Strain by Michael Cordy
Review by Michael A. Goldman
Oriental Girls Desire Romance by Catherine Liu
Review by Mary Cresse
Newfangled by Debra Monroe
Review by Evelin Sullivan
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