“After three years of near silence about the attacks of Sept. 11, the literary world has begun to grapple with the meanings and consequences of the worst terrorist attack ever to happen on American soil,” reports Ed Wyatt in a New York Times story. Wyatt talks about “a half-dozen novels that use 9/11 and its aftermath as central elements of their plot or setting, from some of the most acclaimed literary novelists and the most respected publishing houses,” which are “being released later this year.” Included are books by Lynn Sharon Schwartz, Jonathan Safran Foer, Reynolds Price, and Ian McEwan, whose book is already out in the UK. Wyatt also cites Frederic Beigbeder‘s Windows on the World, which was actually released in France nearly two years ago. “The delay of more than three years reflects both the logistics of producing a bound volume of a lengthy manuscript and the more subtle, complex process of creating a novel,” says Wyatt.