This Week’s Hot Reads: June 17, 2013

Eccentrics

From a 1980s literary superstar’s return to a study of American trailblazers with obsessive-compulsive personality disorder.

Published Jun. 17 2013 6:18AM EDT

The House of Mourning and Other StoriesBy Desmond HoganA reclusive writer returns with a short-story collection of lost loves and opportunities.

Back in the 1980s, Desmond Hogan was a writer to watch, one of those figures who could light up a London literary party just by showing up.

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