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Pick up your paper Sunday, or visit GuideLive.com, and you'll find reviews of: A pair of El Paso authors. John Rechy, whose work was considered scandalous in the 1960s, has written a memoir, "About My Life and the Kept Woman." And Benjamin Alire Saenz, a former priest who now leads the creative writing program at the University of Texas-El Paso, has a new novel about a family dealing with assimilation, "Names on a Map." (Visit the blog Sunday for an excerpt of that one.) "American-Made: The Enduring Legacy of the WPA -- When FDR Put the Nation Back to Work," by Nick Taylor. "Artists in Exile: How Refugees from Twentieth-Century War and Revolution Transformed the American Performing Arts," by Joseph Horowitz. And the aforementioned "Beautiful Children," a novel by Charles Bock. (Which is a free download for another few hours.... ) |
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Posted by Yen @ 3:51 PM Fri, Feb 29, 2008
Merci to Random House for that free download of Beautiful Children. Now all I have to do is figure out how to print it. I'd be interested to know how many Kindle-less folk have printed and read it, or have we all downloaded it only to be read ... never?