There are no big surprises here, but that’s not the point: the WSJ touts fall releases from some of the best-known authors: Toni Morrison, Stephen King, Annie Proulx and Marilynne Robinson have new novels. So do Christopher Paolini (who wrote “Eragon”) and Candace Bushnell (“Sex and the City”). Prepublication reviews have been strong for Dennis Lehane’s “The Given Day,” a 700-page epic from the “Mystic River” author that includes characters such as Babe Ruth. The buzz is also rising for Philip Roth’s “Indignation,” the tale of a butcher’s boy in an Ohio college during the Korean War. In nonfiction, Bill […]
