![]() ![]() ![]() A swiped bag of blow sends a college girl on a wild, wild ride in Jessica Anya Blau’s wickedly funny romp The Wonder Bread Summer (Harper Perennial). Novelist Susan Choi gets top marks for slyly re-inventing the affaire de l’Académie in My Education (Viking). Cold War politics send a chill through the lives of two girlhood friends, one of whom finds herself a pawn in a U.S.-Russian public-relations game in Elliott Holt’s moving debut, You Are One of Them (Penguin Press). ![]() Brett Martin tips his hat to TV’s Difficult Men (Penguin Press), whose dark vision of America, borne out in shows such as The Sopranos, The Wire, and Breaking Bad, put a bullet in the sitcom and feel-good family dramas, giving rise to a big, brash, and very profitable new genre.Īlso this month: The insatiable Kate Christensen looks through the lens of her appetites in Blue Plate Special (Doubleday). contributing editor Peter Biskind’s My Lunches with Orson (Metropolitan)-drawn from the long-lost, private tapes of Orson Welles and director Henry Jaglom chewing the fat-is laden with secrets, gossip, and raunchy jokes. ![]()
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