David Foster Wallace
Little, Brown
ISBN 978-0316074230
548 pages
$27.99
Reviewed by Jeff Turrentine, a writer in Los Angeles
After David Foster Wallace took his life in 2008, his editor, Michael Pietsch, traveled to the author's home in Claremont, Calif., to go through what remained of his unpublished writing and to see what kind of shape it was in. It ...
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Meg Wolitzer
Riverhead
ISBN 978-1594487880
271 pages
$25.95
Reviewed by Ron Charles, The Washington Post's fiction editor. He can be reached at charlesr(at symbol)washpost.com.
As our 10-year-old wars in Afghanistan and Iraq bleed into a new conflict in Libya, maybe we could use something more creative than "the surge" to bring peace. For the weary women ...
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