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.