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January 29, 2008
Fiction
The Centaur's Son by Philip Daughtry.
The Canal Bridge by Tom Phelan.
The World Before Her by Deborah Weisgall.
Tell Everything by Sally Cooper.
The Flowers by Dagoberto Gilb.
A Little Stranger by Kate Pullinger.
A Case of Exploding Mangoes by Mohammed Hanif.
Pins & Needles by Karen Brown.
Confessions of a Falling Woman and Other Stories by Debra Dean.
The Have-Nots by Katharina Hacker.
Senselessness by Horacio Castellanos Moya.
Never on These Shores by Stephen R. Pastore.
The Boys in the Trees by Mary Swan.
In the Name of Friendship by Marilyn French.
What Was Lost by Catherine O'Flynn.
The Diving Pool by Yoko Ogawa.
The Konkans by Tony D'Souza.
The Story of a Marriage by Andrew Sean Greer.
Life Class by Pat Barker.
Standing Still by Kelly Simmons.
The Soul Thief by Charles Baxter.
The Drop Edge of Yonder by Rudolph Wurlitzer.
Split Estate by Charlotte Bacon.
The Age of Dreaming by Nina Revoyr.
They Say by Joseph Torra.
Getting Even: Revenge Stories edited by MItzi Szereto.
Swansea Terminal by Robert Lewis.
Writing New York: A Literary Anthology edited by Phillip Lopate.
Nano Comes to Clifford Falls and Other Stories by Nancy Kress.
Belong to Me by Marisa de los Santos.
There a Petal Silently Falls by Ch'oe Yun.
Love and the Incredibly Old Man by Lee Siegel.
Peace by Richard Bausch.
Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet by Joanne Proulx.
Kuroshio: The Blood of Foxes by Terry Watada.
Abecedarium by Davis Schneiderman and Carlos Hernandez.
The Best of the Bellevue Literary Review edited by Danielle Ofri.
The Leper Compound by Paula Nangle.
My Last Days by Lou Rowan.
Sweet Potatoes by Lou Rowan.
The Learners by Chip Kidd.
Winterwood by Patrick McCabe.
The Messiah by Marek Halter.
Vacation by Jeremy C. Shipp.
To This Day by S.Y. Agnon.
Dear American Airlines by Jonathan Miles.
Illegal Action by Stella Rimington.
The Reavers by George MacDonald Fraser.
December by Elizabeth Hartley Winthrop.
White Fungus, Issue 8 (Lithoprint).
Transformation: A Journal of Literature, Ideas & the Arts, Volume I, No. 4.
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Nonfiction
Lines of Velocity: Words that Move from WriteGirl edited by Keren Taylor.
Mahmoud Darwish: Exile's Poet edited by Hala Khamis Nassar and Najat Rahman.
Words in Your Face: A Guided Tour Through Twenty Years of the New York City Poetry Slam edited by Cristin O'Keefe Aptowicz.
Seneca Falls and the Origins of the Women's Rights Movement by Sally G. McMillen.
Swallow the Ocean by Laura M. Flynn.
Quiet, Please: Dispatches from a Public Librarian by Scott Douglas.
Black Glasses Like Clark Kent: A GI's Secret from Postwar Japan by Terese Svoboda.
Sex for America: Politically Inspired Erotica edited by Stephen Elliott.
The Film Club by David Gilmour.
I Have Fun Everywhere I Go by Mike Edison.
How to Sleep Alone in a King-Sized Bed by Theo Pauline Nestor.
The Second Plane: September 11: Terror and Boredom by Martin Amis.
Sex and Bacon: Why I Love Things That are Very, Very Bad For Me by Sarah Katherine Lewis.
Grayson by Lynne Cox.
The Wisdom of Whores: Bureaucrats, Brothers and the Business of AIDS by Elizabeth Pisani.
A Stranger Among Us: Stories of Cross Cultural Collusion and Connection edited by Stacy Bierlein.
Tree Barking by Nesta Rovina.
About Face: 25 Women Write about What They See When They Look in the Mirror edited by Anne Burt and Christina Baker Kline.
Walking with Nobby: Conversations with Norman O. Brown by Dale Pendell.
The Thief at the End of the World: Rubber, Power and the Seeds of Empire by Joe Jackson.
The Russian Lieutenant's Woman: A True Story of Passion, Love and Betrayal by Barbara Davies.
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Poetry
The Narrow Road to the Interior by Kimiko Hahn.
Watching the Spring Festival by Frank Bidart.
Trick Pear by Suzanne Cleary.
Polynomials and Pollen by Jay Wright.
The Presentable Art of Reading Absence by Jay Wright.
Sharp Teeth by Toby Barlow.
A Phone Call to the Future by Mary Jo Salter.
A New Quarantine Will Take My Place by Johannes Goransson.
Mommy Must be a Fountain of Feathers by Kim Hyesoon.
Thaumatrope by Brent Hendricks.
Whim Man Mammon by Abraham Smith.
Port Trakl by Jaime Luis Huenun.
Everything Else in the World by Stephen Dunn.
Field Work: Modern Poems from Eastern Forests by Erik Reece.
May Day by Phillis Levin.
Want by Rick Barot.
Forms of Intercession by Jayne Pupek.
Light in Hand: The Selected Early Poems of Lola Ridge edited by Daniel Tobin.
The Second Blush by Molly Peacock.
A Different Practice by Fredrik Nyberg (Ugly Duckling Presse).
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Graphic Novels
Life Sucks by Jessica Abel.
Bone: Ghost Circles by Jeff Smith.
'85 by Danny Simmons.
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January 16, 2008
Poetry
Winter Journey by Tony Towle.
National Anthem by Kevin Prufer.
Shadow Mountain by Claire Kageyama-Ramakrishnan.
The Splintered Face: Tsunami Poems by Indran Amirthanayagam.
When Winter Come: The Ascension of York by Frank X Walker (University of Kentucky Press).
A Yes-Or-No Answer by Jane Shore.
Harpoon by Michael Cavendish (Wordrunner Chapbooks).
An Architecture by Chad Sweeney.
Save the Last Dance by Gerald Stern.
Kamal: Book One by Zireaux.
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Nonfiction
Puppy Chow is Better Than Prozac: The True Story of a Man and the Dog Who Saved His Life by Bruce Goldstein.
Damned to Eternity: The Story of the Man Who They Said Caused the Flood by Adam Pitluk.
Things I've Learned From Women Who've Dumped Me edited by Ben Karlin.
What Are the Dead Sea Scrolls and Why Do They Matter? by David Noel Freedman and Pam Fox Kuhlken.
Are You There God? It's Me, Kevin. by Kevin Keck.
Hats & Eyeglasses: A Family Love Affair with Gambling by Martha Frankel.
The Importance of Music to Girls by Lavinia Greenlaw.
The Lodger Shakespeare: His Life On Silver Street by Charles Nicholl.
Rock On: An Office Power Ballad by Dan Kennedy.
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Graphic Novels
The Guin Saga, Vol 2: The Seven Magi by Kaoru Kurimoto.
My Brain Hurts by Liz Baillie.
Do-It-Yourself Screenprinting by John Isaacson.
Invincible Summer by Nicole J. Georges.
MOME edited by Eric Reynolds and Gary Groth.
Midnight Sun by Ben Towle.
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Fiction
This Will Go Down on Your Permanent Record by Susannah Felts.
Crimini: Italian Crime Fiction edited by Giancarlo De Cataldo.
Lizka and Her Men by Alexander Ikonnikov.
Hallam's War by Elisabeth Payne Rosen.
Kyra by Carol Gilligan.
Reservation Nation by David Fuller Cook
Tallgrass by Sandra Dallas.
And Sometimes Why by Rebecca Johnson.
Where Light Takes its Color From The Sea: A California Notebook by James D. Houston.
Happy Family by Wendy Lee.
The Reserve by Russell Banks.
In the Time of Assignments by Douglas A. Martin.
Noon: A Literary Annual, edited by Diane Williams.
Apples by Richard Milward.
The Commoner by John Burnham Schwartz.
Love Letters from a Fat Man by Naomi Benaron.
Fieldwork by Mischa Berlinski.
Dakota by Martha Grimes.
Cleaver by Tim Parks.
We Are Now Beginning Our Descent by James Meek.
The Invention of Everything Else by Samantha Hunt.
Bringing Vincent Home by Madeleine Mysko.
The Lost Books of the Odyssey by Zachary Mason.
Unquiet Dreams by Mark Del Franco.
The Eye of Jade by Diane Wei Liang.
Yellow Medicine by Anthony Neil Smith.
Bang Crunch by Neil Smith.
B as in Beirut by Iman Humaydan Younes.
A Father's Law by Richard Wright.
Song Yet Sung by James McBride.
The Guin Saga, Book Two: Warrior in the Wilderness by Kaoru Kurimoto.
Paris Noir edited by Maxim Jakubowski.
Walking Man by Tim W. Brown.
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January 04, 2008
Graphic Novels
Andomeda Stories Vol. 2 by Keiko Takemiya
365: A Diary by Julie Doucet
Out of Picture Vol. 1
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Poetry
Ideals Clearance by Henry Parland (Trans. from the Swedish by Johannes Goransson, Ugly Duckling Press)
Ludlow, a Verse-Novel by David Mason (Red Hen Press)
The Making of a Sonnet edited by Edward Hirsch and Eavan Boland
Fathom By Philip Brady (Word Press)
Interpretive Work by Elizabeth Bradfielld (Arktoi Books)
Your Ten Favorite Words by Reb Livingston (Coconut Books)
Woman Reading to the Sea by Lisa Williams (W. W. Norton and Company)
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Nonfiction
Relics of Eden: The Powerful Evidence of Evolution in Human DNA by Daniel J. Fairbanks
Swimming in a Sea of Death: A Son's Memoir by David Rieff
Entering the Castle: Finding the Inner Path to God and Your Soul's Purpose by Caroline Myss
Leaning with Intent to Fall: a Memoir by Ethan Clark
Have you Found Her: A Memoir by Janice Erlbaum
Comedy at the Edge: How Stand-Up in the 1970s Changed America by Richard Zoglin
How to Fit a Car Seat on a Camel and other Misadventures Traveling with Kids, edited by Sarah Franklin
America Unzipped: In Search of Sex and Satisfaction by Brian Alexander
Surviving Iraq: Soldiers' Stories by E. F. Tripp
Memories of Montparnasse by John Glassco
The Next Rodeo: New and Selected Essays by William Kittredge
Radiant Lyre: Essays on Lyric Poetry edited by David Baker and Ann Townsend
The Trapeze Diaries by Marie Carter
The First Total War by David A. Bell
The Delighted States: A Book of Novels, Romances, and Their Unknown Translators, Containing Ten Languages... by Adam Thirlwell
Beyond Bullets: The Suppression of Dissent in the United States by Jules Boykoff
Making a Killing: The Political Economy of Animal Rights by Bob Torres
Comrade J: The Untold Secrets of Russia's Master Spy in America After the End of the Cold War by Pete Earley
How Can I Talk If My Lips Don't Move? Inside my Austistic Mind by Tito Rajarski Mukhopadhyay
Negro with a Hat: The Rise and Fall of Marcus Garvey and His Dreams of Mother Africa by Colin Grant
Choosing You: Deciding to Have a Baby on My Own by Alexandra Soiseth
Bonk: The Curious Coupling of Science and Sex by Mary Roach
Stephen Hawking: A Biography by Kristine Larsen
Douglas and Lincoln: How Revolutionary Black Leaders and a Reluctant Liberator Struggled to End Slavery and Save the Union by Paul Kendrick and Stephen Kendrick
The Anatomist: A True Story of Gray's Anatomy by Bill Hayes
Group Theory in the Bedroom, and other Mathematical Diversions by Brian Hayes
In the World, But Not of It: On Family's Militant Faith and the History of Fundamentalism in America by Brett Grainger
Intern: A Doctor's Initiation by Sandeep Jauhar
My First Movie: Take Two: Ten Celebrated Directors Talk About THeir First Film edited by Stephen Lowenstein
After War: The Political Economy of Exporting Democracy by Christopher J. Coyne
The Fall of Constantinople by Nanami Shiono
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Fiction
Sway by Zachary Lazar
Easy Innocence by Libby Fischer Hellmann
Deviant Behavior by Mike Sager
What I Was by Meg Rosoff
Salt River by James Sallis
The Sixth Wife by Suzannah Dunn
Evening is the Whole Day by Preeta Samarasan
Moonlight Downs by Adrian Hyland
The Painter of Battles by Arturo Perez-Reverte
The End of the World Book by Alistair McCartney
The Misremembered Man by Christina McKenna
Empty Ever After: A Moe Prager Mystery by Reed Farrel Coleman
The New Weird Edited by Ann and Jeff Vandermeer
Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout
The Chameleon's Shadow by Minette Walters
Unaccustomed Earth by Jhumpa Lahiri
All Shall Be Well; and All Shall Be Well; and All Manner of Things Shall be Well by Zachary Lazar
Ellington Boulevard by Adam Langer
Yalo by Elias Khoury
Final Silence by Ronald Flores
The Sixth Forum by Tom Dolby
Salvage by Jane F. Kotapish
Blind Faith by Sagarika Ghose
Imagine Me and You by Billy Mernit
When the Black Girl Sings by Bil Wright
Dogface by Jeff Garigliano
Water: Nine Stories by Alyce Miller
Nightmare in Silicon by Colette Phair
Starting Out in Evening by Brian Morton
Shinjuku Shark by Arimasa Osawa
Bangkok Laws by Jim Michael Hanson
Taxi by Khaled Al Khamissi
The Roman Triumph by Mary Beard
Winged Creatures by Roy Freirich
Artist's Proof by Lander Marks
The Thief of Time by John Boyne
The Five Seasons of Love by Joao Almino
Snow, Ashes by Alyson Hagy
The Year She Disappeared by Ann Harleman
Inferno: New Tales of Terror and the Supernatural edited by Ellen Datlow
The Watsons and Emma Watson by Jane Austen and Joan Aiken
New York Echoes by Warren Adler
End Credits by A. F. Rutzy
Without Wax by William Walsh
My Revolutions by Hari Kunzru
Two Brothers by David H. JOnes
The Girl on the Fridge by Etgar Keret
How the Soldier Repairs the Gramophone by Sasa Stanisic
Playing with the Grown-Ups by Sophie Dahl
The Accident Man by Tom Cain
A Person of Interest by Susan Choi
Pinkerton's Secret by Eric Lerner
Men Die by H. L. Humes
Tampico by Toby Olson
The Underground City by H. L. Humes
Ottawa Arts Reviewed: The Official University of Ottawa Literary and Arts Journal
Azalea: Journal of Korean Literature and Culture (feat. Orthan Pamuk, Robert Pinksy)
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