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Authorette: The writer Behind the political blog 'Wonkette' brings us 'dog days' -- a novel with little bite and even less bark
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Washington ought to be a wonderful subject for fiction; there's so
much of it in town. The city has characters to spare. Gosh knows
there are plots. But good novels about Washington are scarce:
Democracy, by Henry Adams; Allen Drury's admirable doorstop Advise
and Consent; Shelley's Heart and Lucky Bastard by Charles McCarry; a
Gore Vidal tome or two. And good comic novels about Washington can be
counted on one hand, specifically Christopher Buckley's.
Washington's pretensions, blown...
