It’s a season of cliffhangers. Who will emerge as top dog in a transatlantic face-off when Don DeLillo and Ian McEwan each publish a new novel on the very same day? Will anyone come up with a better title for a book about working moms than The Feminine Mistake, by Vanity Fair writer Leslie Bennetts Read More
Its arrival has been as secretive as that time Holden hid in Phoebe’s closet.
In the fall of 2000, Pocket Books, a division of Simon & Schuster Inc., plans to publish a memoir by J.D. Salinger’s daughter, Margaret (Peggy) Salinger. The book, entitled Dream-Catcher , is about her childhood and as such will incorporate Read More
Juneteenth , by Ralph Ellison. Random House, 368 pages, $25.
Oh, has a novel ever had a murkier provenance than this one? I mean, fires and file cabinets with multiple drafts and handwritten notes on loose pieces of paper and a widow who changed her mind? “The real quality of the paint is always determined Read More
