Another blast from the past - a 1950's book with a contemporary tone - Hamilton Basso's "The View from Pompey's Head."

Also, two books recently out-- Margaret Atwoods "Moral Disorders", (short stories), and "Him, Her, Him Again, The End of Him" by Patricia Marx, which I have to keep checking to make sure it's not (early) Margaret Atwood, or even Margaret Drabble. Find and read.

How could I forget? On my list of Funniest Books, Chip Kidd's "Cheese Monkeys" - actually owned by MPL too. Another contender - Judith Martin, who writes the Miss Manners books, wrote a novel called "Gilbert", about the eighties and the Reagan administration.