It’s Official: Summer is Over With Labor Day still a week away, the media has nonetheless given up on summer and moved into that transitional season formally known as “Fall Preview.” (Filing stories before the holiday often allows the reporters themselves to go on vacation.) NY Magazine’s Fall Preview issue mentions dozens of books, though the posted versions are strung out over 10 links (perhaps giving the impression of more verbiage than actually provided.) The primary recommended/featured books are: — Junot Diaz’s The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, “worth the long, long wait.” (Separately, Amazon’s Brad Parsons recently dubbed […]