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September 27, 2008

Coming Sunday in The Sun

This week in the YOU/Arts & Entertainment section, find a review of Philip Roth's Indignation. The book is described as an irritating, puzzling and fascinating bundle of mistakes, miscalculations and self-indulgences. Readers familiar with Roth will recognize familiar territory, characters and preoccupations in the tale of a brilliant but overprotected son of East Coast Jews who transfers to a small Midwestern college.

Also, capsule summeries football-themed books, including The Year That Changed The Game: The Memorable Months That Shaped Pro Football By Jonathan Rand; The Glory Game: How The 1958 NFL Championship Changed Football Forever By Frank Gifford with Peter Richmond; and Pro Football Prospectus 2008 By Aaron Schatz and the Experts at FootballOutsiders.com.

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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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