Somehow, the new novel by Gary Shteyngart, Absurdistan, has snuck up on me.  The NYT reviews it in today’s paper.  Shteyngart is the author of The Russian Debutante’s Handbook, which we disussed, here and here.

Phillip Roth’s new book, Everyman, also snuck up on me.  It is reviewed just about everywhere (Times (UK), NYT, NYT-2, Guardian, etc).

Based on the runaway success of Baby Got Books, the National Book Critics Circle have set up their own blog called Critical Mass (link via NYT and BGB’s Nitro).