May 7, 2008

All the World’s a Page

New Summer Fiction Roundup

There are places your nose shouldn’t go — like under the knife repeatedly or all up in your ex-con neighbor’s bizness.

And places it should. Books, for example. Here are the summer’s top upcoming reads.

Girl, Interrupted
Former Rolling Stone writer Jancee Dunn introduces Lillian, a thirtysomething New York City TV producer who moves back in with her parents and starts life anew in Don’t You Forget About Me (July 29).

Acting Out
A suspicious wife maniacally checks her actor husband’s voicemails and follows him on set, hoping to snuff out an affair, in Ann Leary’s Outtakes from a Marriage (June 3).

Guy-namite
A hapless Manhattan man tries to set his life straight after his marriage and business fail in Michael Dahlie’s funny first novel, A Gentleman’s Guide to Graceful Living (June 30).

Brothers McSullen
TV writer Noah Hawley (Bones) follows two brothers — one a bitter customer service rep, the other a pessimistic polygamist — as they travel to spread their father’s ashes in The Punch (June 16).

Mystery! Mayhem!
A sharp, washed-up novelist-turned-teacher discovers a murderer lurking among her creative writing students in Jincy Willett’s The Writing Class (June 10).

Ghost Writer
Lucie Whitehouse’s eerie debut novel, The House at Midnight, follows a group of college friends who begin to act strange while staying in an old manor in the English countryside (June 3).

Now your nose knows.