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March 25, 2008
Fiction
Beijing Coma by Ma Jian.
Back Roads by Ted Ferguson.
The Pornographer of Vienna by Lewis Crofts.
The Adoration of Jenna Fox by Mary E. Pearson
The Camel Bookmobile by Masha Hamilton.
The Willoughbys by Lois Lowry.
The Story of Forgetting by Stefan Merrill Block.
Toronto Noir edited by Janine Armin & Nathaniel G. Moore.
Las Vegas Noir edited by Jarret Keene & Todd James Pierce.
South by South Bronx by Adam Rodriguez.
Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout.
The Stone Gods by Jeanette Winterson.
Dictation by Cynthia Ozick.
My Name is Will: A Novel of Sex, Drugs and Shakespeare by Jess Winfield.
Gerbil Mother by D. M. Bryan.
Love and the Incredibly Old Man by Lee Siegel.
Tales: from a Distant Planet by Felice Picano.
Good Morning Comrades by Ondjaki.
Julian Rodriguez Episode One: Trash Crisis on Earth by Alexander Stadler.
Diana: A Diary in the Second Person by Russell Smith.
The Mercy Rule by Perri Klass.
On a Day Like This by Peter Stamm.
The Lizard Cage by Karen Connelly.
Roommates Wanted by Lisa Jewell.
Three Girls and Their Brother by Theresa Rebeck.
Daughters of the North by Sarah Hall.
I Am Death by Gary Amdahl.
Playing by Melanie Abrams.
All About Lulu by Jonathan Evison.
The Cure for Modern Life by Lisa Tucker
The Conversation by Joseph Olshan
Wild Nights!: Stories about the Last Days of Poe, Dickinson, Twain, James and Hemingway by Joyce Carol Oates.
The Children of the Black Valley by Evan Kilgore.
The Shadow Year by Jeffrey Ford.
Awesome by Jack Pendarvis.
The Forgery of Venus by Michael Gruber.
Erotomania: A Romance by Francis Levy.
A Carrion Death by Michael Stanley.
Pravda by Edward Docx.
Not in the Flesh by Ruth Rendell.
Submarine by Joe Dunthorne.
Art in America by RonMcLarty.
The Cellist of Sarajevo by Steven Galloway.
The White King by Gyorgy Dragoman.
Nice to Come Home To by Rebecca Flowers.
A Fragile Hope by Ken N. Kamoche.
Between Two Seas by Carmine Abate.
Shelter Half by Carol Bly.
A Clockwork Apple by Belinda Webb.
Translucent Tree by Nobuko Takagi (Vertical Press).
New Letters: A Magazine of Art and Writing Vol. 74 No. 2.
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Nonfiction
Dark Summit: The True Story of Everest's Most Controversial Season by Nick Heil.
Chance by Anne Metikosh.
The Devil Gets His Due: The Uncollected Essays of Leslie Fiedler edited by Samuele F. S. Pardini.
The Pessimist's Guide to History by Doris Flexner and Stuart Berg Flexner.
The Corpse Walker: Real-Life Stories, China from the Bottom Up by Liao Yiwu.
Split: A Memoir of Divorce by Suzanne Finnamore.
The Warrior: A Mother's Story of a Son at War by France Richey.
Turtle Feet: The Making and Unmaking of a Buddhist Monk by Nikolai Grozni.
Just Call Me Mike: A Journey to Actor and Activist by Mike Farrell.
Harpoon: Into the Heart of Whaling by Andrew Darby.
Tintin and the Secret of Literature by Tom McCarthy.
1858: Abraham Lincoln, Jefferson Davis, Robert E. Lee, Ulysses S. Grant and the War They Failed to See by Bruce Chadwick.
You Want Fries With That?:A White-Collar Burnout Experiences Life at Minimum Wage by Prioleau Alexander.
Chick Lit: The New Woman's Fiction edited by Suzanne Ferriss and Mallory Young.
Chick Flicks: Contemporary Women at the Movies edited by Suzanne Ferriss and Mallory Young.
Sing Me Back Home: Love, Death and Country Music by Dana Jennings.
Autobiography of a Wardrobe by Elizabeth Kendall.
Germaine De Stael & Benjamin Constant: A Dual Biography by Renee Winegarten.
Ambivalence: Adventures in Israel and Palestine.
A Blue Hand: The Beats in India by Deborah Baker.
The Venus Week: Discover the Powerful Secret of Your Cycle ... At Any Age by Rebecca Booth.
Do No Harm: How a Magic Bullet for Prostate Cancer Became a Medical Quandry by Stewart Justman.
Ghetto Plainsman by Jarid Manos.
The Stem Cell Dilemma: Beacons of Hope or Harbringers of Doom? by Leo Furcht.
Partners in Command: George Marshall and Dwight Eisenhower in War and Peace by Mark Perry.
Ark of the Liberties: America and the World by Ted Widmer.
A Broom of One's Own: Words on Writing, Housecleaning & Life by Nancy Peacock.
Taking on the Trust: Ida B. Tarbell and John D. Rockefeller: How an Investigative Journalist Brought Down Standard Oil by Steve Weinberg.
Biography: A User's Guide by Carl Rollyson.
Peace: 50 Years of Protest by Barry Miles.
Dry Storeroom No. 1: The Secret Life of the Natural History Museum by Richard Fortey.
Dawn, Dusk or Night: A Year with Nicolas Sarkozy by Yasmina Reza.
Without a Map by Meredith Hall.
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Graphic Novels
Life Sucks by Jessica Abel, Gabe Soria and Warren Pleece.
Three Shadows by Cyril Pedrosa.
Sex and Sensibility: Ten Woman Examine the Lunacy of Modern Love ... in 200 Cartoons edited by Liza Donnelly.
Maintenance, Volume 2 by Jim Massey and Robbi Rodriguez.
The New York Four by Brian Wood and Ryan Kelly.
Mr. Fooster Traveling on a Whim by Tom Corwin.
The Rabbi's Cat 2 by Joann Sfar.
North World by Lars Brown (Oni Press).
Funeral of the Heart by Leah Hayes.
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Poetry
Meditations on Rising and Falling by Philip Pardi.
Old War by Alan Shapiro.
The Translator's Diary by Jon Pineda.
Language for a New Century: Contemporary Poetry from the Middle East, Asia and Beyond edited by Tina Chang, Nathalie Handal and Ravi Shankar.
The Royal Baker's Daughter by Barbara Goldberg.
Undersleep by Julie Doxsee.
Irresponsibility by Chris Vitiello.
They Lift Their Wings to Cry by Brooks Haxton.
Human Dark with Sugar by Brenda Shaughnessy.
Woman Reading to the Sea by Lisa Williams.
The Boatloads by Dan Albergotti.
A Yes-or-No Answer by Jane Shore.
Nomina by Karen Volkman.
I Wrote Stone by Ryszard Kapuscinski.
Bicycle by Paul Fattaruso.
To and From by G. E. Patterson (Ahsahta Press).
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March 12, 2008
Bios
Please send your bios (or updated bios) to liz.decoster@gmail.com, so we can update the website. Thanks!
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Fiction
A Man of Ideas and Other Stories by David Galff.
The Evening Papers by Matthew Kirby.
The Song is You by Megan Abbott.
The Gift of Rain by Tan Twan Eng.
The Woman Who Wouldn't by Gene Wilder.
The Book of Dahlia by Elisa Albert.
Theft by N. S. Koening.
The Blue Star by Tony Earley.
Tortoise by James Lewelling.
Slumberland by Paul Beatty.
Bob, or Man on Boat by Peter Markus.
Telex from Cuba by Rachel Kushner.
Last Last Chance by Fiona Maazel.
The Disagreement by Nick Taylor.
Necking by Chris Salvatore.
The Mandarin by Aaron Kunin.
Muder Bay: A Ben Carey Mystery by David R. Horwitz.
Knockemstiff by Donald Ray Pollock.
Windy City: A Novel of Politics by Scott Simon.
The Answer is Always Yes by Monica Ferrell.
A Proper Knowledge by Michelle Latiolais.
Implied Spaces by Walter Jon Williams.
Bawdy Bedtime Stories by Joan Elizabeth Lloyd.
In Hoboken by Christian Bauman.
In the Light of You by Nathan Singer.
A Chronicle of the Madness of Small Worlds by Mac Wellman.
Mine All Mine by Adam Davies.
Chasing Windmills by Catherine Ryan Hyde.
Superpowers by David J. Schwartz.
I'd Like by Amanda Michalopoulou.
Petropolis by Anya Ulinich.
Delusion by Michele Roberts.
HomeSpun by Nilita Vachani.
Red Car by Sallie Bingham.
The Outlander by Gil Adamson.
Dreamers of the Day by Mary Doria Russell.
The Post-War Dream by Mitch Cullin.
Mafeking Road by Herman Charles Bosman.
Wolf Totem by Jiang Rong.
The 351 Books of Irma Arcuri by David Bajo.
The Ten Year Nap by Meg Wolitzer.
The Other by David Guterson.
The Sister by Poppy Adams.
The Sienese Shredder, Issue 1 edited by Trevor Winkfield and Brice Brown.
Banana Heart Summer by Merlinda Bobis.
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Nonfiction
Sing Me Back Home: Love, Death and Country Music by Dana Jennings.
Twilight War: The Folly of U.S. Space Dominance by Mike Moore.
The World and its Double: The Life and Work of Otto Preminger by Chris Fujiwara.
Somebody Scream: Rap Music's Rise to Prominence in the Aftershock of Black Power by Marcus Reeves.
The Suspicions of Mr. Whicher: A Shocking Murder and the Undoing of a Great Victorian Detective by Kate Summerscale.
About My Life and the Kept Woman by John Rechy.
Pornography: A Groundwork Guide by Debbie Nathan.
Cheer!: Three Teams on a Quest for College Cheerleading's Ultimate Prize by Kate Torgovnick.
The Constant Rider Omnibus by Kate Lopresti.
Taking on the Trust: The Epic Battle of Ida Tarbell and John D. Rockefeller by Steven Weinberg.
Distance Makes the Heart Grow Sick: A Book of Postcards by Cristy C. Road.
The Chainbreaker Bike Book: A Rough Guide to Bicycle Maintenance by Shelley Lynn Jackson & Ethan Clark.
On Empire: America, War and Global Supremacy by Eric Hobsbawn.
The Pearl: A True Tale of Forbidden Love in Catherine the Great's Russia by Douglas Smith.
The Return of History and the End of Dreams by Robert Kagan.
The Making of FDR: The Story of Stephen T. Early, America's First Modern Press Secretary by Linda Lotridge Levin.
Lost in the Fog: Memoirs of a Bastard by Rachel Van Meers.
Twenty Chickens for a Saddle: The Story of an African Childhood by Robyn Scott.
Teenage: The Prehistory of Youth Culture, 1875-1945 by Jon Savage.
Please Excuse My Daughter by Julie Klam.
The Runner: A True Account of the Amazing Lies and Fantastical Adventures of Ivy League Imposter James Hogue by David Samuels.
Only Love Can Break Your Heart by David Samuels.
I Was Told There'd Be Cake by Sloane Crosley.
Hearsay from Heaven and Hades: New Orleans Secrets of Sinners and Saints by TJ Fisher.
The Secular Conscience: Why Belief Belongs in Public Life by Austin Dacey.
AK47: The Story of a Gun by Michael Hodges.
Birds, Booze and Bulldozers by Peter Styles.
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Poetry
Boy by Patrick Phillips.
18 Reasons Mexicanos Can't Cross the Border by Juan Felipe Herrera.
Catching Life by the Throat by Josephine Hart.
Door to a Noisy Room by Peter Waldor.
Holy Land by Rauan Klassnik.
Earthly by Erica Funkhouser.
The Wave-Maker by Elizabeth Spires.
Contents of a Minute by Josephine Jacobsen.
The Kingdom of Ordinary Time by Marie Howe.
The Importance of Peeling Potatoes in Ukraine by Mark Yakich.
Wayfare by Pattiann Rogers.
Gunshy by Sarah Ruth Jacobs (Finishing Line Press).
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Graphic Novels
The Guin Saga, Volume 3: The Seven Magi by Kazuaki Yanagisawa.
Tonoharu by Lars Martinson.
The Mouse Guard, Volume 1: Fall 1152 by David Petersen.
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