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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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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.