RICHARD DAWKINS smashes your faith with The God Delusion (Houghton Mifflin, October 18). If that leaves you down, sniff those tears away while reading Moving the Chains: Tom Brady and the Pursuit of Everything (Hill & Wang, November 1), Boston writer and wit CHARLES P. PIERCE ’s tribute to the other god of New England.
Poetry
Look for big new selected-and-collected volumes from JAMES FENTON, C.K. WILLIAMS, and ROBERT LOWELL, as well as a new translation of the Aeneid by ROBERT FAGLES. GALWAY KINNELL ’s Strong Is Your Hold (Houghton Mifflin, November 8) features a CD of his throaty readings. PAUL MULDOON ’s Horse Latitudes (FSG, October 3) has no audio and doesn’t need it, so powerful is the Irishman’s musical verse.
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Diana Joseph's new essay collection I'm Sorry You Feel That Way: The Astonishing True Story of a Daughter, Sister, Slut, Wife, Mother and Friend to Man and Dog begins with an account of her father giving her the sex talk: "When a girl goes with this one, and then that one, and then that one over there ... what happens is people will start to talk.
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