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August 23, 2008

In Sunday's Sun: back to Lake Wobegone

Sunday in the new YOU/Arts & Entertainment section, get a peek at Garrison Keillor's new book, Liberty: A Novel of Lake Wobegon (Viking / 257 pages / $25.95). Sixty-year-old Clint Bunsen reassesses his life in a story that "supplies the sights, slights, smells and swells of Lake Wobegon with a stir-fry of satire and sentimentality."

You'll also find capsule reviews of several books with Balimore connections. They include: Treasure in the Cellar by Leonard Augsburger, a tale of two boys who stumble onto riches in 1934; The Wave-Maker, Elizabeth Spires poetry that confronts the mystery of death; and Baltimore’s Alley Houses by Mary Ellen Hayward, a look at the Irish, German, Bohemian and blacks who arrived in Baltimore from the late 18th to the early 20th centuries.

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Dave Rosenthal came to The Baltimore Sun as a business reporter in 1987 and now is the Maryland Editor. He reads a wide range of books (but never as many as he'd like), usually alternating between non-fiction and fiction. Some all-time favorites: A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole; Wind, Sand and Stars by Antoine de Saint-Exupery; and anything by Calvin Trillin or John McPhee. He belongs to a book club with a Jewish theme.
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