Personal Days
Ed Park
The former Village Voice literary editor's debut novel offers a
cubicle-eye view of the downfall of a mysterious company.
Open Line
Ellen Hawley
In Hawley's politically charged novel, a struggling late-night radio
talk-show host in Minneapolis finds fame after joking on air that the
Vietnam War was a hoax.
Out Stealing Horses
Per Petterson
This Norwegian novel, one of EW's top 10 picks for '07, follows a
sexagenarian from the city to an isolated cabin where he ruminates on
his stormy youth.

