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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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While she always preferred The Hardy Boys to Nancy Drew, Nancy Knight grew up reading nearly everything she could get her hands on, including a probably unhealthy amount of R.L. Stine and Christopher Pike, with the obligatory Jane Austen thrown in. She'll still read just about anything you put in front of her, especially the funny or weird. She lives in the city with her books, cat and drum set.

Dave Rosenthal came to The Baltimore Sun as a business reporter in 1987 and now is an assistant managing editor and Sunday 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.