Archive for December, 2008

Free e-books for Stanza

Novels by Alan Furst & Arthur Phillips are among the (e-)books Random House is making available free to Stanza users.

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Some books and essays I’ve enjoyed this year

By request, and in the hopes of doing some small part to ease the struggles of great bookstores like Powell’s, here is an incomplete list of books and essays I enjoyed this year: Fiction: Richard Price’s Lush Life, Aleksandar Hemon’s The Lazarus Project, Marilynne Robinson’s Home, Claire Keegan’s Walk the Blue Fields, Julia Leigh’s Disquiet, Amara Lakhous’ Clash of Civilizations . . .

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