![]() ![]() His new novel, Insignificant Others, takes a gently satiric. ![]() (Check out a recent Bob Wolfley column for some details at Bryant will read from and discuss his book at 7 p.m. Ever since his 1987 debut, The Object of My Affection, Stephen McCauley has helped revive and update the modern comedy of manners. Now they can learn about the mind and heart of one of the game's greatest players from senior writer Howard Bryant, author of the biography "The Last Hero: A Life of Henry Aaron" (Pantheon, $29.95). Local baseball fans have cheered Henry Aaron from the bleachers and the living-room couches for decades. Port Washington Road, Fox Point, at 7 that night. Prospect Ave., at noon Tuesday, and Borders, 8705 N. Margolin visits Mystery One Bookshop, 2109 N. Mystery writer Phillip Margolin makes two stops in Milwaukee to sign his books, including the new "Supreme Justice" (HarperCollins, $25.99), with private investigator Dana Cutler and some FBI chums probing skulduggery at the Supreme Court. But fans of McCauley's previous novels, including "The Object of My Affection," would tell you his genius is as much about how he writes as what he writes about. His newest, the wonderfully titled "Insignificant Others" (Simon & Schuster, $25), might be brutally summarized as a comedy of manners about men tiptoeing out on the down-low. Stephen McCauley used to be a travel agent, but now he moves around the country in a different way, gliding from bookstore to bookstore to read from his witty novels. ![]()
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