Pete Dexter, author of Paris Trout and Train, has got a new one out, titled Spooner ; I've just gotten through the first couple of chapters but I can tell it's going to be another winner.

Also, feminist author Marilyn French has written a semi-autobiographical novel about the Sixties and early Seventies titled The Love Children. The opening line quotes a Hemingway short story; "In the fall the war was always there but we did not go to it anymore". Makes me want to read this book and Hemingway again.