New books out the week of October 7th:
The Circle by Dave Eggers: "Eggers has written a nearly 500-page satire of the tech world while appearing to have little interest in the actual tech world." (Slate)
Dirty Love by Andre Dubus III: "The master of naturalistic New England fiction returns with a book of four loosely connected short works that showcases his Dreisarian abilities at their most trenchant." (Publishers Weekly)
Doomed by Chuck Palahniuk: "My new book, Doomed, features a series of electronic dispatches from the Great Beyond." (Chuck Palahniuk's Reddit Ask Me Anything)
The Double by George Pelecanos: "Pelecanos’s writing, as always, keeps the story moving with clarity and style, and the plot has a satisfying share of puzzles presented and resolved." (Toronto Star)
Longbourn by Jo Baker: "Longbourn is not just nicely packaged fan fiction, or an Austenian Downton Abbey; it’s an engrossing tale we neither know nor expect." (The Telegraph)
And more links:
The Daily Routines of History's Most Creative Minds at The Guardian (HT Poets & Writers)
A review of Paul Harding's Enon by J. M. Gamble at HTMLGiant
The Jong and the Restless: Fear of Flying, forty years on, at Bookforum