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The article presents information on the comments of various authors on several books. Kate Clinton says that she had the pleasure of getting Leslie Feinberg's first novel, "Drag King Dreams," in galleys and it wasn't paginated. It is an island novel about class and race during wartime. Ruth Conniff comments on the philosophy professor Harry G. Frankfurt's book "On Bulls##t." As he was reading Frankfurt, he was reminded of a radio call-in show he heard recently, in which a Republican caller lambasted the liberal guest for suggesting that the U.S. President had lied to get them into the war in Iraq. Anne-Marie Cusac comments on E.L. Doctorow's "The March." It traces the Civil War experiences of the people who followed an author William Tecumseh Sherman's scorched earth campaign. The Civil War may have been the war that ended slavery, but the novel contains little evidence of principled or inspired action. It is clear, for instance, that many union soldiers shared the racism of their Southern counterparts.

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Vol. 69 Issue 12, p41-52 10p