I’m going away for a few days to an unnamed Italian city. I’ve got to pack like now and I’m still all ungapotched about what to read. I”m pretty sure I’m taking the new Lorrie Moore (I know, predicatable, but still). And probably the James Atlas biography of Saul Bellow. I also want to read Katherine Harrison’s The Seal Wife and Walter Kirn’s Lost in the Meritocracy. I’m all over the place.
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Betsy Lerner 
The Good Thief by Hannah Tinti – not that youasked, but have you read it?
I can’t believe you’re taking Lorrie Moore! Yes, predictable! I’m reading ALL THE SAD YOUNG LITERARY MEN…much better (if you’re a sad young literary man, well, not so young).
The Girl Who Played with Fire, Pippi Longstocking for adult women.
Sure, don’t name the city, but you can’t keep secret forever your rendezvous with George Clooney at Lake Como. Can’t imagine you’ll have much time to read.
Wait, I’m meeting George Clooney at Lake Como. Only George.
Coincidentally, I read Meritocracy and Saul Bellow’s bio from Atlas both in the past six months. Highly recommend Kirn’s thoughtful work on the Ivies; it’s a quick read. As per Bellow…I was still trying to talk myself into ignoring his womanizing and focusing on his writing on page 400-something.