For those who want a break from politics and public policy – from PG Wodehouse to Evelyn Waugh to Isaac Bashevis Singer, and from the Wall Street Journal to Esquire Magazine to Publisher’s Weekly, this week’s fiction post has it all … or at least enough to satisfy those visiting over the Labor Day weekend.

Short Fiction:

• Short Story: “A Sea of Troubles” by P. G. Wodehouse
• Short Story: “The Beekeeper” by Bill Shears
• Short Story: “Jesus Out to Sea” by James Lee Burke

Commentary and Criticism:

• John Mortimer on P.G. Wodehouse
• Evelyn Waugh on P.G. Wodehouse
• Badly Wrong in the War of the World Views – John. J. Miller on H.G. Wells

News and Reviews

• Book Review: Decline and Fall (1928) by Evelyn Waugh
• Book Review: Blindsided by Blindsight – John C. Wright on Blindsight by Peter Watts
• Book Review: Ephemera in Full – R. Emmett Tyrell, Jr. on Prejudices, the Library of America’s collection of H.L. Mencken essays (Okay, so it isn’t fiction, but I thought it might interest readers)
• Stephen R. Lawhead on The Skin Map
• The Independent Institute on C.S. Lewis on Mere Liberty and the Evils of Statism
• The Return of Roth and Rushdie – Fall books from Philip Roth, Salman Rushdie, Ken Follett, and others, with several excerpts.
• Two Bookstores to Open on the East Coast – A refugee from the high-tech industry and former stay-at-home mom (her youngest child is now in high school) open bookshops in the Washington DC and Greater Boston areas, respectively.
• The Library of America Celebrates Isaac Bashevis Singe

The Writing Life:

• Novelist Dan Simmons asks, “Can someone really be taught how to write well?”