July is almost over, so it’s a good time to look at fall books. Which ones look interesting? Which ones will be talked about even if they are terrible? Are there any hidden gems? Which ones am I most excited about?
Well, there is a bumper crop of literary biography this fall, along with some interesting collections of essays and letters.
We have Ray Bradbury’s Selected Correspondence (Simon & Schuster, November), for example, which contains “letters from his late teens to his ninth decade.”
Benjamin Taylor’s biography of Willa Cather will likely make a splash, and hopefully for the right reasons. It’s called Chasing Bright Medusas: A Life of Willa Cather (Viking, November). It’ll be interesting to see how it compares to Hermione Lee’s 2017 biography of Cather.
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