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...Berlin: City of Stones," by Jason Lutes This paperback collects the first eight issues of a projected 25-issue series that takes place in Weimar Berlin. If it reaches completion, this will be the longest, most sophisticated work of historical fiction in the medium. Lutes has a natural, clean, European drawing style, much like Hergé's "Tintin." This first volume follows a young woman art student who meets a weary leftist journalist against a background of boiling politics and decadence. Only eight issues in, and already this book has the density of the best novels...
Jhumpa Lahiri won this year's Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for this moving collection of stories about Indian-Americans and the challenges of immigration. Some of the tales hit close to home, like "Third and Final Continent," about an Indian man who struggles to adapt to life in Cambridge and eventually sends a son to Harvard...
...EXPERIENCE: Taking a breather from fiction, Martin Amis writes movingly about life with his famous father, Kingsley, who died in 1995. The book hums with the same antic prose and looping comic riffs that characterize Martin's novels, along with a surprising admixture of tenderness...
...FICTION...
Gourmet's new editor attributes much of his success to the positive influence of classmate Ben Brooks '70, a fiction writer...