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...Given Day By Dennis Lehane; out now Wait, what is Lehane's name doing on a 700-page epic about union politics, a flu epidemic, immigration, baseball, an Irish cop and a black fugitive in Boston in 1919? He's gone big and literary on us, and the results are part home run and part homework. But he hasn't forgotten where he came from: there's great pulp storytelling in here...
Bushnell's prose is breezy and careless, as if she composed One Fifth Avenue in a helicopter on the way to the Hamptons with a cigarette and a martini in her free hand and didn't worry too much if a page here or there flew out the window. (She describes Mrs. Houghton's death as a "swift and speedy end," as if those two words meant different things. And it's amazing that anyone could write, let alone publish, the following sentence: "That was the defining moment of great sex--when the penis met the vagina.") Bushnell also seems...
Which is still no mean feat, and One Fifth Avenue (Hyperion; 433 pages) is no mean book, except in the other sense of mean. So far, 2008 is looking like a career year for Bushnell, what with the success of the Sex and the City movie and the success--or, at any rate, the renewal--of her NBC series Lipstick Jungle. She also just announced a deal to write young-adult novels about the teen years of Carrie Bradshaw. One Fifth Avenue should round all that out nicely. It's certainly a page turner of practically Germanic efficiency...
...pieces collected in “The Second Plane: September 11: Terror and Boredom.” He attacks his subject with precisely the level of extreme rationality that he professes to value, and the resulting analyses are shocking both for their lucidity and their ruthlessness.The roughly 200-page volume contains pieces the Englishman published in American and British periodicals between September 18, 2001 and September 11, 2007, arranged in chronological order, and they get predictably more circumspect as the volume progresses. What each of them shares, however, is the express desire to annihilate the ideology that begat the events...
...upcoming events include “Wasilla Drinks,” when the club will watch the vice-presidential debate between “our beloved Gov. Sarah Palin and that dirty Washington Insider Joe Biden,” as advertised on the club’s Facebook group page...