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Jerzy Kosinski
…at Wesleyan University; subsequently he taught American prose at Princeton and Yale universities. He then served the maximum two terms as president of the American Center of P.E.N., the international…
Wagons West
by Frank McLynn“Fascinating. . . . McLynn, an Englishman, is new to the West, but he turns this seeming liability into a strength. . . . McLynn does a fine job, too,…
A Place to Stand
by Jimmy Santiago Baca…me of the rawness of George Orwell combined with the human exuberance of Neruda’s memoirs. . . . This book will have a permanent place in American letters.” —Jim Harrison…
Woodcuts of Women
by Dagoberto Gilb‘dagoberto Gilb is an important voice in American fiction. These stories of working class, low-rent lives illuminated by the small pleasures of sex and drink and food and sleep and…
Prince of Pleasure
by Saul David‘morton”has written a scholarly but highly readable bio, filled with rich analysis and insight. He says more in his limited space than many others could do with three times the…
The Rise of the G.I. Army, 1940-1941
by Paul DicksonThe dramatic, untold story of how the American Army was mobilized from scattered outposts two years before Pearl Harbor into the disciplined and mobile fighting force that helped win World…
Gould’s Book of Fish
by Richard Flanagan“What’s memorable–even extraordinary–about this book are Flanagan’s aphoristic talent, his imagination and his uncanny ability to channel the Rabelaisian voices of the great picaresque writers–Fielding, Sterne, Smollet. . . ….
St. Petersburg
by Andrey Biely“There is nothing like a ticking time bomb to supply fictional suspense, and perhaps no other writer has ever used the device more successfully than Andrey Biely in St. Petersburg…
Pot Planet
by Brian Preston“A gimlet-eyed and often hilarious account of the author’s round-the-world reefer safari. With Britain’s downscaling of penalties for marijuana possession currently stirring up controversy, Preston’s book comes along at a…
Personal Velocity
by Rebecca Miller‘rebecca Miller’s debut story collection is a series of eye-opening portraits of women who are either struggling to attain self-knowledge or who are hopelessly plagued by it. . . ….
