#BalancingtheBooks - New book review: "The Weird Sisters" by Eleanor Brown. Worth a read, and not so weird at all. bit.ly/oexVTG

New author post on The Story Prize blog--Melanie Rae Thon: Catalytic Convergence thestoryprize.blogspot.com/2011/08/melani…

The Strength of Weak Ties in Nikky Finney's Sonnet Sequence - bit.ly/p5lOVO #poetry #sonnets

Digested read: The Sense of an Ending by Julian Barnes gu.com/p/3x8j7/tf

Jonathan Lethem's The Empty Room in the Paris Review theparisreview.org/fiction/6085/t…

Bad Romance: History’s Ill-Fated Literary Couples flavorwire.com/category/books

Ten Years Later Launches with a story by Granta debut writer Phil Klay about marines on OIF who go AWOL in their heads. bit.ly/qtWTok

The Hours, Michael Cunningham Three stories intertwine in an act of subtle and haunting grace. amazon.com/The-Hours-A-No…

A Thousand Splendid Suns Khaled Hosseini A tale of two women that is weighted equally with despair and grave hope. amazon.com/Thousand-Splen…

Midnight's Children, Salman Rushdie. Born at the very moment of India’s independence. amazon.com/Midnights-Chil…

The Married Man, Edmund White. Austin Smith pushing fifty, meets Julien, a much younger, married Frenchman. amazon.com/The-Married-Ma…

Amy Tan on Twitter x.com/AmyTanWriter

Rules for Virgins Amy Tan, Where beautiful courtesans mercilessly compete for the patronage of wealthy gentlemen. amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_no…

Paul Auster on Twitter x.com/paulausternet

The New York Trilogy, Paul Auster Three interlocking haunting and mysterious tales. amazon.com/The-New-York-T…

Infinite Jest, David Foster Wallace. The Pursuit of Happiness in America set in an addicts' halfway house, amazon.com/Infinite-Jest-…

A.M. Homes on Twitter x.com/nycnovel  

#Kindle HuffingtonPost's Roger Denson confronts Western myth of the mosque as breeding ground for terror amazon.com/THE-BEAUTY-WE-…

#Kindle HuffingtonPost's Roger Denson confronts Western myth of the mosque as breeding ground for terror amazon.com/THE-BEAUTY-WE-…