New books for fall

The LA Times provided its seasonal preview of upcoming books, noting the return of some favorite authors. Since the link won't last forever, here are some of the books I am looking forward to:

• Joan Didion's memoir of losing her husband and almost losing her daughter, The Year of Magical Thinking
• Salman Rushdie' s Shalimar the Clown (I need to read more of his work in general)
• Barbara Ehrenreich has another undercover expose of working America, this time as a white-collar worker
• Simon Winchester (he of The Professor and the Madman on the making of the OED, an awesome nerd book) has a "geologic and cultural history of the quake that changed the face of California, giving rise to many of the myths by which we define ourselves."
• And Margaret Cho and Zadie Smith also have new books, taking on culture in America in different ways

Should be yet another busy season for reading. As it should be...