BOOKMASON HOUSE is happy to announce another acquisition: THE IDES OF AUGUST by Mary Williams in a nice deal. The title calls up a day in 1969, on which a series of odd—at first droll, later increasingly unsettling—incidents begin to beset a doctoral student in Paris. Trying to wrap his head around the forces that threaten to take over his life, Marty and his best friend Augustus spiral into a deepening crisis even as they question whether what they stumbled upon is only a figment of their imaginations. Unfortunately for them, their summer will end tragically, raising a host of questions about what exactly they encountered on the streets of the fever-hot city.