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Today’s snapshots have fun with the all-American pastimes of politics and baseball.
Non-fiction Snapshots this time, of pilots in WWII, slum-dwellers in Mumbai, and the "lasting political damage" caused by the retreating British empire. Terrific reads all!
Today, a serving of fiction for every taste and mood. Enjoy!
Crossing to Safety by Wallace Stegner, published in 1987, is our June recommendation, because the novel explores the quintessential theme of friendship.
A recurring feature showcasing recently released books that book clubs may find interesting.
We highlight two novels that explore our contemporary financial and social dystopia from wildly different points of view. Want a change of pace? Spend some time with "rare creatures and people . . . sometimes too compassionate for their own good." Megan Mayhew Bergman's debut short story collection delights.
Grace Cavalieri's column this month looks at poets Mark Strand, Traci Brimhall, Jonathan Galassi, Campbell McGrath, and Vladimir Nabokov. Very honorably mentioned are Dennis Barone’s Parallel Lines; and Villanelles edited by Annie Finch and Marie-Elizabeth Mali.
These snapshots range from turf battles in the Irish underworld, to Hindu-Muslim religious and generational struggles, to Jeanette Winterson's witty and affecting memoir of her horrific childhood. Good reading all.
