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February 20, 2007

Your reading list

Each week on this blog, I'll offer some reading suggestions beyond our book-of-the-month.
 
   The titles have been heavily vetted by those of us at The News involved in the Book Club and by other readers in the community.  Why? How? The books have been past monthly selections that we've loved so much we don't want others to miss out on the joy.

The News Book Club has been up and running since October of 2003, and it's the very first book we featured that we suggest to you today: Richard Russo's "Straight Man."

This novel is funny, poignant, well-written and a must-read. As far as I'm concerned, Russo (who won the Pulitzer for "Empire Falls") is the best American fiction writer publishing today.

Posted at 03:55 PM in Literature |

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