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July is time to celebrate the birth of the Good Ol' U.S. of A. And what does America do better than any other country? Well, there are lots of answers to that question, some serious, some sarcastic. One thing is for certain: America invented the noir story and everyone else (especially the French) copied it slavishly. And who better to read in July than birthday boy Raymond Chandler, the father of detective fiction? His collection TROUBLE IS MY BUSINESS is a must own and will transport you into a world of tough talking dames and hard boiled mugs.

July

 1 George Sand, 1804
 2 Hermann Hesse, 1877
 3 Charlotte Perkins Gilman, 1860;
Franz Kafka, 1883;
M.F.K. Fisher,1908;
Tom Stoppard, 1937
 4 Nathaniel Hawthorne, 1804
 7 Robert Heinlein, 1907
10 Marcel Proust, 1871;
Alice Munro, 1931
11 E. B. White, 1899;
Harold Bloom, 1930
12 Henry David Thoreau, 1817;
Pablo Neruda, 1904
15 Iris Murdoch, 1919;
Richard Russo, 1949
16 Anita Brookner, 1928
18 Hunter S.Thompson, 1939
20 Thomas Berger, 1924;
Cormac McCarthy, 1933
21 Hart Crane, 1894;
Ernest Hemingway, 1899
22 Tom Robbins, 1936
23 Raymond Chandler, 1888
24 Robert Graves, 1895
26 George Bernard Shaw, 1856;
Carl Jung, 1875;
Aldous Huxley, 1894
27 Joseph Mitchell, 1908;
Bharati Mukherjee, 1940
28 Beatrix Potter, 1866;
Malcolm Lowry, 1909;
William T. Vollman, 1959
30 Emily Bronte, 1818

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