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June 17, 2008
Fiction
Diminished Capacity by Sherwood Kiraly.
What You Have Left by Will Allison.
The Cult of Quick Repair by Dede Crane.
When the White House was Ours by Porter Shreve.
Someone at a Distance by Dorothy Whipple.
Drowning Lessons by Peter Selgin.
The Theory of Light and Matter by Andrew Porter.
The 351 Books of Irma Arcuri by David Bajo.
Alive in Necropolis by Doug Dorst.
Clocks Stopped at a Strange and Savage Hour: Fulton Street and Other Stories by Brian Spaeth.
Oxygen by Carol Cassella.
Contemporary Iraqi Fiction: An Anthology ed. by Shakir Mustafa.
West End Murders by Roy Innes.
By Chance by Martin Corrick.
The Great Weaver from Kashmir by Halldor Laxness.
Finding Nouf by Zoe Ferraris.
Kaleidoscope by Darryl Wimberley.
Tranquility by Attila Bartis.
Feather Man by Rhyll McMaster.
boring boring boring boring boring boring boring by Zach Plague.
I Shall Not Want by Julia Spencer-Fleming.
The Gifted Gabaldon Sisters by Lorraine Lopez.
The Lemur by Benjamin Black.
The Spare Room by Helen Garner.
The Night Villa by Carol Goodman.
The Space Between Before and After by Jean Reynolds Page.
Farther Along by Donald Harrington.
The Mercy Rule by Perri Klass.
The Toss of a Lemon by Padma Wiswanathan.
Lust and Cashmere by A.E. Simns.
Final Judgment by Eliot Asinof.
The Savior by Eugene Drucker.
The Little Sailor by Anthony Valerio.
The Screwed-Up Life of Charlie the Second by Drew Ferguson.
Anne of Green Gables by L.M. Montgomery.
Dream City by Brendan Short.
The Likeness by Tana French.
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Steig Larsson.
The North of God by Steve Stern.
Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout.
The Amnesiac by Sam Taylor.
House Lights by Leah Hager Cohen.
Out Backward by Ross Raisin.
Secrets of the Sea by Nicholas Shakespeare.
The Creator's Map by Emilio Calderon.
Doctor Olaf van Schuler's Brain by Kirsten Menger-Anderson.
The Gone-Away World by Nick Harkaway.
The Wasted Vigil by Nadeem Aslam.
Fragments by David Carl (Green Lantern Press).
Miriam & Silas (Featherproof).
Posted by Jessa Crispin at 05:48 PM
Graphic Novels
Dororo, Volume 2 by Osamu Tezuka.
The Klassic Komix Klub by Johnny Ryan (Buenaventura Press).
Boy's Club by Matt Furie.
Injury by Ted May.
Posted by Jessa Crispin at 05:43 PM
Nonfiction
Up For Renewal: What Magazines Taught Me About Love, Sex and Starting Over by Cathy Alter.
Five Ring Circus: Myths and Realities of the Olympics by Christopher A. Shaw.
Slackonomics: Generation X in the Age of Creative Destruction by Lisa Chamberlain.
Outlaw Journalist: The Life and Times of Hunter S. Thompson by William McKeen.
Names on the Land: A Historical Account of Place-Naming in the United States by George R. Stewart.
Reinventing Collapse: The Soviet Example and American Prospects by Dmitry Orlov.
The No-Nonsense Guide to the United Nations by Maggie Black.
Painter in a Savage Land by Miles Harvey.
Superheroes: Fashion and Fantasy by Harold Koda and Andrew Bolton.
Last Days in Babylon: The Exile of Iraq's Jews, the Story of my Family by Marina Benjamin.
When the Guillotine Fell: The Bloody Beginnings and Horrifying End to France's River of Blood, 1791-1977 by Jeremy Mercer.
The Elements of Cooking by Michael Ruhlman.
Writing in the Dark by David Grossman.
Enemies of Promise by Cyril Connolly.
Blood River: A Journey to Africa's Broken Heart by Tim Butcher.
River of No Return: Tennessee Ernie Ford and the Woman he Loved by Jeffrey Buckner Ford.
Napoleon's Privates: 2,500 Years of History Unzipped by Tony Perrottet.
Simplicity: Why Simple Things Become Complex (and How Complex Things Can Be Made Simple) by Jeffrey Kluger.
What Rhymes with Bastard? by Linda Robertson.
Chasing Lolita: How Popular Culture Corrupted Nabokov's Little Girl All Over Again by Graham Vickers.
Art of Darkness: Ingenious Performances by Undercover Operatives, Con Men and Others by Sara K. Schneider.
The Shameless Carnivore by Scott Gold.
God on Trial: Dispatches from America's Religious Battlefields by Peter Irons.
Gut Feelings: The Intelligence of the Unconscious by Gerd Gigerenzer.
The Wild Places by Robert Macfarlane.
Hidden in the Shadow of the Master: The Model-Wives of Cezanne, Monet and Rodin by Ruth Butler.
American Priestess: The Extraordinary Story of Anna Spafford and the American Colony in Jerusalem by Jane Fletcher Geniesse.
Leaving Resurrection: Chronicles of a Whale Scientist by Eva Saulitis (Boreal Books).
Between the Monster and the Saint: Reflections on the Human Condition by Richard Holloway (Canongate).
Posted by Jessa Crispin at 05:18 PM
Poetry
A Half-Life of Cardio-Pulmonary Function by Eric Gansworth.
The Sensory Cabinet by Mark DuCharme.
Same Life by Maureen N. McLane.
Pathogenesis by PEggy Munson.
The Old Man's Verses by Ivan Divis.
The Lit World: Poems from History by Tim Miller.
Lobster with Ol' Dirty Bastard by Michael Cirelli.
Spanish Ballads translated by W.S. Merwin.
The Evolution of a Sigh by R. Zamora Linmark.
Winter Sky by Coleman Barks.
Selected Poems by C.P. Cavafy.
A Metaphorical God by Kimberly Johnson.
Radius of Light by Joshua Auerbach.
Tyrannosaurus Rex versus the Corduroy Kid by Simon Armitage.
The Flying House by Dawn-Michelle Baude.
Who's To Say What's Home by Kim Calder.
Evan Boland: A Critical Companion ed. by Jody Allen Randolph.
The Queen of the Rain Was in Love with the Prince of the Sky by Eugene Mirabelli (Spring Harbor Press).
Posted by Jessa Crispin at 04:40 PM
June 03, 2008
Nonfiction
Journals from the Time of the Radar Dog by Pat Lawrence.
Vanished Gardens: Finding Nature in Philadelphia by Sharon White.
Germaine de Stael & Benjamin Constant: A Dual Biography by Renee Winegarten.
Unpacking the Boxes: A Memoir of a Life in Poetry by Donald Hall.
The Border: Exploring the U.S. - Mexico Divide by David Danelo.
Loose Girl: A Memoir of Promiscuity by Kerry Cohen.
While They Slept: An Inquiry into the Murder of a Family by Kathryn Harrison.
The Saint of Kathmandu by Sarah LeVine.
The Three of Us: A Family Story by Julia Blackburn.
Undiscovered by Debra Winger.
Why the Dalai Lama Matters by Robert Thurman.
Trespassers Will Be Baptized by Elizabeth Emerson Hancock.
Since My Last Confession: A Gay Catholic Memoir by Scott Pomfret.
The Full Burn: On The Set, At The Bar, Behind The Wheel, And Over The Edge With Hollywood Stuntmen by Kevin Conley.
The Stay-At-Home Survival Guide by Melissa Stanton.
We Bought a Zoo by Benjamin Mee.
The Court and the Cross: The Religious Right's Crusade to Reshape the Supreme Court by Frederick Lane.
Muhajababes: Meet the New Middle East - Young, Sexy and Devout by Allegra Stratton.
Going Hungry: Writers on Desire, Self-Denial and Overcoming Anorexia edited by Kate Taylor.
How Can I Keep From Singing? The Ballad of Pete Seeger by David King Dunaway.
Rilke and Andreas-Salome: A Love Story in Letters edited by Edward Snow and Michael Winkler.
The Voice: A Memoir by Thomas Quasthoff.
My Father's Paradise: A Son's Search for his Jewish Past in Kurdish Iraq by Ariel Sabar.
The Selected Essays of Gore Vidal edited by Jay Parini.
Posted by Jessa Crispin at 06:10 PM | Comments (0)
Fiction
Half Girl by Stephanie Dickinson.
Creamy Bullets by Kevin Sampsell.
Home by Marilynne Robinson.
ex-Cottagers in Love by J.M. Kearns.
The Story of Edgar Sawtelle by David Wroblewski.
Steer Toward Rock by Fae Myenne Ng.
Shelter Half by Carol Bly.
The Garden of Last Days by Andre Dubus III.
Philip K. Dick: Five Novels of the 1960s & 70s edited by Jonathan Lethem.
One Dog Happy by Molly McNett.
Invite by Glen Pourciau.
Halloween and Other Seasons by Al Sarrantonio.
My Amputations by Clarence Major.
Old Devil Moon by Christopher Fowler.
Broccoli and Other Tales of Food and Love by Lara Vapnyar.
Vacation by Deb Olin Unferth.
Bad Traffic by Simon Lewis.
What Makes a Child Lucky by Gioia Timpanelli.
Finding Nouf by Zoe Ferraris.
Trinidad Noir edited by Lisa Allen-Agostini and Jeanne Mason.
Chelsea Hotel Manhattan by Joe Ambrose.
The Court of the Air by Stephanie Hunt.
Pulpy & Midge by Jessica Westhead.
Fault Lines by Nancy Huston.
Say You're One of Them by Uwem Akpan.
Mexican High by Liza Monroy.
City of Refuge by Tom Piazza.
Little Face by Sophie Hannah.
Red Dust, Red Sky by Paul Sunga.
All About Lulu by Jonathan Evison.
Once Upon a Time in England by Helen Walsh.
Federico F. by Gianfanco Angelucci.
Dinosaurs on the Roof by David Rabe.
The Book of Chameleons by Jose Eduardo Agualusa.
The Last Window-Giraffe by Peter Zilahy.
Dead is the New Black by Marlene Perez.
Tokyo Bay Traffic by Cecile Rossant.
I Am Death by Gary Amdahl.
The Common Bond by Donigan Merrit.
The Organ Grinder and the Monkey by Sam Moffie.
Pharmakon by Dirk Wittenborn.
My Sister, My Love: The Intimate Story of Skylar Rampike by Joyce Carol Oates.
Rowan of the Wood by Christine and Ethan Rose.
One of a Kind by Jack Micheline.
Two Marriages by Phillip Lopate.
Posted by Jessa Crispin at 05:37 PM | Comments (0)
Poetry
Vertical Elegies by Sam Truitt.
Mute Objects of Expression by Francis Ponge.
Revolver by Robyn Schiff.
Dreaming Escape by Valentina Saracini.
Ordinary Beans by Gwyn McVay.
Vauxhall by Catherine Daly.
What It Is: What It Is by Paul G. Maziar.
Firefly Under the Tongue by Coral Bracho.
Breaking the Glass by LouAnn Shepard Muhm.
The Last American Valentine edited by Derrick Brown.
Child in the Road by Cindy Savett.
Psyche's Weathers by Cynthia Atkins.
A Time in Xanadu by Lars Gustafsson.
The Hands of Day by Pablo Neruda.
The Urge to Believe Is Stronger Than Belief Itself by Erin M. Bertram (Cherry Pie Press).
I Love You Is Back by Derrick C. Brown (Write Bloody Publishing).
Small Stones: A Year of Moments by Fiona Robyn (Lulu).
Posted by Jessa Crispin at 05:22 PM | Comments (0)
Graphic Novels
Dead in Desemboque by E. Arellano.
Alan's War by Emmanuel Guibert.
Bottomless Belly Button by Dash Shaw.
MOME: Volume 11, Summer 2008.
Amor Y Cohetes: A Love & Rockets Book by Los Bros Hernandez.
Out of Pictures 2: Art from the Outside Looking In.
Postage Stamp Funnies by Shannon Wheeler.
Fatal Faux-Pas by Samuel C. Gaskin.
Mr. Fooster Traveling on a Whim by Tom Corwin and Craig Frazier.
Posted by Jessa Crispin at 05:13 PM | Comments (0)