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Bookmarks save entire pages...Clipmarks save the specific content that matters to you!en-ushttp://clipmarks.com/clipmark/ECA5BBED-8C08-411D-8408-257204C89B74/<b>clipped by:</b> <a href="http://clipmarks.com/clipper/Babe_ORiley/">Babe_ORiley</a><br><b>clipper's remarks:</b> worth a shot <br><div border="2" style="margin-top: 10px; border:#000000 1px solid;" width="90%"><div style="background-color:"><div align="center" width="100%" style="padding:4px;margin-bottom:4px;background-color:#666666;overflow:hidden;"><span style="color:#FFFFFF;font-weight:bold;">Clip Source: <a style="color:#FFFFFF;" href="http://www.villagevoice.com/nyclife/0820,favorite-writers-obscure-books,440816,15.html" title="http://www.villagevoice.com/nyclife/0820,favorite-writers-obscure-books,440816,15.html">www.villagevoice.com</a></span></div><div style="padding: 10px;"><div style="text-align:left;"><P>Ah, summer! The time to kick back in the sun, sucking up both gin and tonics and intellectual stimulation. But why be the hundredth person on the beach getting sand in Jhumpa Lahiri's <I>Unaccustomed Earth</I> or smudging Richard Dawkins's <I>The God Delusion</I> with SPF 45? Put some idiosyncrasy into your life, folks! To help guide you through the waters of the literary unknown, we asked a number of authors to name their favorite obscure book. Below, their replies, which we pass along as suggestions for your arcane summer reading.</P></div></div><hr size="2" color="#666666" /><div style="padding: 10px;"><div style="text-align:left;"><P><B>Jennifer Egan</B> <BR /><I>You Can't Live Forever,</I> by Harold Q. Masur</P></div></div><hr size="2" color="#666666" /><div style="padding: 10px;"><div style="text-align:left;"><P><B>John Banville</B> <BR /><I>Some People,</I> by Harold Nicolson</P></div></div><hr size="2" color="#666666" /><div style="padding: 10px;"><div style="text-align:left;"><P><B>Donna Tartt</B> <BR /><I>Blood in the Parlor,</I> by Dorothy Dunbar<I> </I></P></div></div><hr size="2" color="#666666" /><div style="padding: 10px;"><div style="text-align:left;"><P><B>Rick Moody</B><BR /><I>Frank Zappa: The Negative Dialectics of Poodle Play</I><I>,</I> by Ben Watson</P></div></div><hr size="2" color="#666666" /><div style="padding: 10px;"><div style="text-align:left;"><P><B>Jonathan Ames</B> <BR /><I>The Lunatic at Large</I><I>,</I> by J. Storer Clouston</P></div></div><hr size="2" color="#666666" /><div style="padding: 10px;"><div style="text-align:left;"><P><B>Nathan Englander</B> <BR /><I>Gob's Grief</I><I>,</I> by Chris Adrian</P></div></div><hr size="2" color="#666666" /><div style="padding: 10px;"><div style="text-align:left;"><P><B>Tom Bissell</B> <BR /><I>Invasion of the Space Invaders</I><I>,</I> by Martin Amis</P></div></div><hr size="2" color="#666666" /><div style="padding: 10px;"><div style="text-align:left;"><P><B>Colum McCann</B> <BR /><I>Fup</I><I>,</I> by Jim Dodge </P></div></div><hr size="2" color="#666666" /><div style="padding: 10px;"><div style="text-align:left;"><P><B>George Pelecanos</B> <BR /><I>Hard Rain Falling</I><I>,</I> by Don Carpenter</P></div></div></div></div><br><div style="margin-bottom: 40px;">Tags: <a href="http://clipmarks.com/tags/books/" rel="tag">books</a>, <a href="http://clipmarks.com/tags/unknown/" rel="tag">unknown</a>, <a href="http://clipmarks.com/tags/obscure/" rel="tag">obscure</a></div>http://www.villagevoice.com/nyclife/0820,favorite-writers-obscure-books,440816,15.htmlMon, 19 May 2008 07:09:55 GMThttp://clipmarks.com/clipmark/659EB91A-CA08-4B91-ABF1-2C0B0A46ADA0/<b>clipped by:</b> <a href="http://clipmarks.com/clipper/Babe_ORiley/">Babe_ORiley</a><br><b>clipper's remarks:</b> there's more to the English than the stiff upperlip <br><div border="2" style="margin-top: 10px; border:#000000 1px solid;" width="90%"><div style="background-color:"><div align="center" width="100%" style="padding:4px;margin-bottom:4px;background-color:#666666;overflow:hidden;"><span style="color:#FFFFFF;font-weight:bold;">Clip Source: <a style="color:#FFFFFF;" href="http://www.reuters.com/article/oddlyEnoughNews/idUSL0941780120080509" title="http://www.reuters.com/article/oddlyEnoughNews/idUSL0941780120080509">www.reuters.com</a></span></div><div style="padding: 10px;"><div style="text-align:left;"><P>LONDON (Reuters) - England is an irritating and insular country full of overweight, binge-drinking, reality TV addicts, a new guide warns tourists.<SPAN id="midArticle_byline"></SPAN></P></div></div><hr size="2" color="#666666" /><div style="padding: 10px;"><div style="text-align:left;"><P>But in the new Rough Guide to England, the English are also hailed as a nation of animal-loving, tea-drinking charity donors who love nothing better than forming an orderly queue.</P></div></div><hr size="2" color="#666666" /><div style="padding: 10px;"><div style="text-align:left;"><P>Gone, it seems, is the image of a genteel country awash with Englishmen politely tipping their bowler hats, groping through the London fog and being kinder to pets than kids.</P></div></div><hr size="2" color="#666666" /><div style="padding: 10px;"><div style="text-align:left;"><P>The writers confess to bafflement over the quirky English, concluding that of the 200 countries the guide reviews there is none "so fascinating, beautiful and culturally diverse yet as insular, self-important and irritating as England."</P></div></div><hr size="2" color="#666666" /><div style="padding: 10px;"><div style="text-align:left;"><P>But there are constant contradictions. In a country priding itself on patriotism, they have a Scottish Prime Minister, an Italian football coach and a Greek married to the Queen.</P></div></div></div></div><br><div style="margin-bottom: 40px;">Tags: <a href="http://clipmarks.com/tags/guide/" rel="tag">guide</a>, <a href="http://clipmarks.com/tags/english/" rel="tag">english</a></div>http://www.reuters.com/article/oddlyEnoughNews/idUSL0941780120080509Sat, 10 May 2008 07:37:36 GMT