
On Writers and Writing 2012 Desk Diary
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Susan Sontag's latest novel, inspired by the real-life Polish woman Helena Modjeska. Sontag, through an ironic, erudite style, explores emigration as an existential escape: America is not a paradise, but a mirror of European weaknesses.
Summer Sisters (1998) follows the lifelong friendship of two girls from different worlds: Victoria "Vix" Leonard, a humble girl from a working-class family in New Mexico, and wealthy, rebellious Caitlin Somers.
Topaz is a Cold War suspense novel by Leon Uris, published in 1967 by McGraw-Hill. The novel spent one week atop The New York Times Best Seller List, and was Uris's first New York Times number-one bestseller since Exodus in 1959.
Melanie Gideon, an American writer known for her humorous novels about family dynamics, dissects the monotony of marriage in the age of social media in The Marriage Trap (2012).
Martin Cruz Smith, a master of crime novels, dissects the dark side of contemporary Russia – corruption, political intrigue, and Stalinist legacy – in the sixth part of the series about investigator Arkady Renko.
The novel High Window, the third in the series about private detective Philip Marlowe, takes place in sunny but corrupt Los Angeles. Marlowe, a cynic at heart, navigates through the glitz of Hollywood, where high windows hide falls into the abyss.