Michael Meyer, author of
The Last Days of Old Beijing Life in the Vanishing Backstreets of a City Transformed. was interviewed on today's
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Michael Meyer will discuss his book, "The Last Days of Old Beijing: Life in the Backstreets of a Changing City," and give a presentation on the transforming face of Beijing at 7:30 p.m. Thursday Nov. 13 at the New Canaan Library, 151 Main St., New Canaan as part of their Authors on Stage series. For information or reservations, call 594-5000.
Publishers Weekly Names Salt River One of the Best Books of 2008
Salt River is named in
PW's article on the best books of 2008.
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Whicher Thrills The New York Times
Marilyn Stasio of The New York Times calls The Suspicions of Mr. Whicher "[A] fastidious reconstruction and expansive analysis of the Road Hill
murder case...Summerscale smartly uses an energetic narrative voice and a
suspenseful pace, among other novelistic devices, to make her factual
material read with the urgency of a work of fiction...The author's startling final twist both vindicatesher fallen hero and advances an 'aggressive' attack on moral hypocrasy
in his day and ours.".
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Read Summerscale's interview in popular blog
"BookSlut". Interesting story in
GalleyCat.
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