Books self is interested in reading after perusing the 2 August 2009 issue of The New York Times Book Review:
- After reading Mark Harris’ review of the director Werner Herzog’s Conquest of the Useless: Reflections From the Making of “Fitzcarraldo” :
Werner Herzog’s Conquest of the Useless: Reflections From the Making of “Fitzcarraldo”
- After reading Lawrence Downes’ review of William T. Vollmann’s “monumental” new book, Imperial, about “one county in far southeast California” :
William T. Vollmann’s Imperial
- After reading Joe Meno’s review of Nic Brown’s first book, Floodmarkers, a novel in stories:
Two classics of the genre: Winesburg, Ohio and Go Down, Moses
- After reading Marilyn Stasio’s “Crime” column:
Three by South African-born writer Rennie Airth:
River of Darkness
The Blood-Dimmed Tide
The Dead of Winter
Steve Hockensmith’s The Crack in the Lens
Kanlaon 