I loved the Correspondent! I listened to it in the summer. I also really enjoyed Janet's fashion related recommendation -- the biography of Claire McCardell. We owe her so much! She was a fashion genius, I think. And led quite an adventuresome and interesting life.
I've been reading poetry (I know not everyone's taste, but Marie Howe and Karen Solie are amazing). Also re-reading (via audio) Pat Barker's Regeneration trilogy. She is so good!
I read James last year and loved it. Erasure is also really good. Fun fact: I met Percival Everett years ago at a writing conference.
Carla, The Grand Sophy is brilliant! I love Georgette Heyer!
Another recent read for those into literary analysis and gossip and/or those who have ever lived with an alcoholic or a closeted parent...Susan Cheever's study of her father's fiction: When All The Men Wore Hats. She's a writer herself, and a good one, and she has many insights into her father's work but also into the psyche of those who write from personal experience.
