newsweek

This week’s Newsweek is particularly good one for writers.  It features a very cool list of 50 books called “What To Read Now.  And Why.”  This isn’t the usual list with Ulysses and A Farewell To Arms.  It’s a list specifically intended to be relevant to current affairs but in a not-so-direct way.  It’s definitely worth a look.

There’s also an excerpt from E.L. Doctorow’s new book about the Collyer brothers.  (E.L. probably did not become familiar with the eccentric pair the way I did: from a great episode of Frasier.)