Summer Solstice

• Easy, readers: Summer reads from the Boston Globe
• "Hot Summer Reads" from On Point with Tom Ashbrook
• NPR's Summer Books 2007
• The third of a four-part series of summer reading recommendations from Salon.

Also:

• The Scorn of the Literary Blog
• Racing Against Reality: A review of Don DeLillo's Falling Man
• Biggest literary prize goes to little-known Norwegian
• James Baldwin's letters to Istanbul
• David Halberstam Remembered as Writer Dedicated to Conveying Truth
• García Márquez's 'Total' Novel: One Hundred Years turns 40
• An old Salon interview with Haruki Murakami