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Innovation: 'Machu Picchu', Homesteading And 'Johnny Appleseed'
This week, there's fresh fiction from Pulitzer finalist Denis Johnson, novelist Tom Perrotta and newspaperman Pete Hamill; plus, travel editor Mark Adams explores Machu Picchu; Melissa Coleman reminisces about growing up off the grid; and Howard Means looks at the life of Johnny Appleseed.
Best Books Of 2011
Year-End Fiction Wrap-Up: The 10 Best Novels Of 2011
2011 was a terrific year for fiction — both from first-time novelists and much-decorated veterans. Maureen Corrigan's recommendations range from Karen Russell's dazzling debut, to David Foster Wallace's posthumously published novel, to what may be the Sept. 11 novel.
Book Reviews
'Train Dreams' Evokes Frontier Life, Fate And Death
by Alan Cheuse
Denis Johnson writes with controlled and beautiful prose about the "steadying loneliness" of life in the northwestern mountains in his striking new short novel.
Book Reviews
Hard-Edged Noir Jewel From Denis Johnson
by Laurel Maury
The criminals in Denis Johnson's hard-edged Nobody Move aren't cool. But with a Mamet-like ear, Johnson — who won the National Book Award for Tree Of Smoke — wrings poetry from his hapless heroes' deadly exploits.
Book Tour
Hear the National Book Award Winners
by Linda Kulman
Tree of Smoke, Denis Johnson's Vietnam epic, and Legacy of Ashes, Tim Weiner's critical history of the CIA, were among the winners at the 58th annual National Book Awards, held earlier this month in New York.
Book Reviews
Johnson Covers Vietnam, CIA in 'Tree of Smoke'
by Alan Cheuse
Denis Johnson's new novel, Tree of Smoke, is one of the late summer's big books in a number of ways. It covers the Vietnam War and the U.S. intervention in Southeast Asia — and the life of a CIA agent whose career grows with the war. Also, it's more than 600 pages long.
You Must Read This
Writer Finds a Fated Friend in 'Jesus' Son'
by Nathan Englander
If you're only going to read one book this year about getting stabbed in the eye and crushing tiny, helpless bunnies, then run right out and get Denis Johnson's Jesus' Son.
Summer Books 2007: Excerpts
Excerpt: 'Jesus' Son'
If you're only going to read one book this year about getting stabbed in the eye and crushing tiny, helpless bunnies, then run right out and get Denis Johnson's Jesus' Son.
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