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... and anyone who thinks that’s bad should get
decked.
“Dangerous Laughter: 13 stories”
by Steven Millhauser
Knopf, 244 pages, $24
Even avid readers are unfamiliar with Steven Millhauser.
For the uninitiated (virtually everyone), Millhauser began his career in 1972 with the brilliant novel “Edwin Mullhouse.” Since then, he has written four novels (including 1997’s
“Martin Dressler,” which won the Pulitzer Prize) and five collections of short stories. One story, “Eisenheim the Illusionist,” became the 2006 film “The Illusionist.”
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 “Sacco
& Vanzetti: The Men, The Murders, and the Judgment of Mankind”
by Bruce Watson
Viking, $26,
434 pages
Any generation
subsequent to the Baby Boomers has had their collective heads filled
with tales of the unparalleled decadence, volatile politics and social
experimentation of the 1960s (and the first half of the 1970s, really),
that most storied of decades. What we’re
steered away from knowing is that the 20th
Century had a
decade at least comparable in its craziness and upheaval, if not more
striking: the 1920s.
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 “KOP” by Warren Hammond
Tor, 331 pages, $25, hardcover
The dust jacket of Denver author
Warren Hammond’s debut novel, “KOP,” sports a cover one rarely sees outside of romance novels: a lifelike, vivid image of the main
characters. Amid a dismal urban landscape that suggests overcrowding
and squalor, a young brunette looks into the distance while a man who
could pass for a meaner, somewhat broken down Pierce Brosnan leers into
the shadows.
“KOP” ain’t no romance novel,
though.
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 “Who Are You People?: A Personal Journey into the Heart of Fanatical Passion in America” by Shari Caudron
Barricade Books, 288 pages, $15
Denver writer Shari Caudron has hit the national radar with a nonfiction book that examines an interesting subject.
No,
she didn’t trek across the Afghanistan desert post 9-11, log time in a
foreign brothel, or go undercover with religious fanatics.
What she did was cast
a probing eye toward people we see all the time, possibly at work or at
family gatherings, who have interests that arouse a mixture of
curiosity and embarrassment.
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