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July 17, 2008
Poetry
Circular Stairs, Distress in the Mirrors by Peter Klappert (Six Gallery Press)
Best Thought, Worst Thought: Aphorisms by Don Paterson (Graywolf)
Modern History: Prose Poems 1987-2007 by Christopher Buckley (Tupelo)
A Guide to Folktales in Fragile Dialects by Catherynne M Valente (Norilana)
Three Years from Upstate by Jonathan Regier (Six Gallery Press)
Everyday People by Kevin Coval (Empress)
Dark Card by Rebecca Roust (Texas Review Press)
Green Zone New Orleans by Mark Yakich (Press Street)
Installations by Joe Bonomo (Penguin)
Clear All the Rest of the Way by Warren Woessner (Backwaters Press)
An Alchemist with One Eye on Fire by Clayton Eshleman (Black Widow Press)
Posted by Jessa Crispin at 12:53 PM
Nonfiction
Anonymity: A Secret History of English Literature by John Mullan
Fixing Sex: Intersex, Medical Authority, and Lived Experience by Katrina Karkazis
Jubilee City: A Memoir at Full Speed by Joe Andoe
The Wordy Shipmates by Sarah Vowell
Red Princess: A Revolutionary Life by Sofka Zinovieff
The Idler's Glossary by Joshua Glenn
Woman of Rome: A Life of Elsa Morante by Lily Tuck
What You Should Know About Politics But Don't by Jessamyn Conrad
Between Earth and Sky: Our Intimate Connections to Trees by Nalini M Nadkarni
The Lizard King: The True Crimes and Passions of the World's Greatest Reptile Smugglers by Bryan Christy
You Don't Know Me: A Citizen's Guide to Republican Family Values by Win McCormack
Greasy Rider: Two Dudes, One Fry-Oil-Powered Car, and a Cross-Country Search for a Greener Future by Greg Melville
Buzzed: The Straight Facts About the Most Used and Abused Drugs from Alcohol to Ecstasy by Cynthia Kuhn, et al
The Man Who Believed He Was King of France by Tommaso di Carpegna Falconieri
Promised Land: 13 Books That Changed America by Jay Parini
Moral Relativism by Steven Lukes
Slackonomics: Generation X in the Age of Creative Destruction by Lisa Chamberlain
Violence by Slavoj Zizek
Hallelujah Junction: Composing an American Life by John Adams
Archaic Design by Clayton Eshleman
The Dancer from Khiva by Bibish
Danger Pay: Memoir of a Photojournalist in the Middle East, 1984-1994 by Carol Spencer Mitchell
Joan of Arc: A Life by Mary Gordon
Posted by Jessa Crispin at 11:41 AM
Fiction
Log of the SS the Mrs Unguentine by Stanley Crawford
The One Marvelous Thing by Rikki Ducornet
A Mind at Peace by Ahmet Hamdi Tanpinar
The Long Knives are Crying by Joseph M. Marshall III
Good Evening, Mrs Craven: The War Time Stories of Mollie Panter-Downes
The Gargoyle by Andrew Davidson
Scarred Hearts by Max Blecher
A Book of Memories by Peter Nadas
West Virginia by Che Elias
Ancient Highway by Bret Lott
The Romantics by Galt Niederhoffer
The General of the Dead Army by Ismail Kadare
Drivetime by James Meek
So Many Ways to Sleep Badley by Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore
The Riddle of Qaf by Alberto Mussa
Other Worlds, Better Lives: Selected Long Fiction 1989-2003 by Howard Waldrop
Falling Under by Danielle Younge-Ullman
Captives by Todd Hasak-Lowy
Liam's Going by Michael Joyce
In the Land of the Free by Geoffrey Forsyth
Fathom by Cherie Priest
In the Light of You by Nathan Singer
Night Work by Thomas Glavinic
The School on Heart's Content Road by Carolyn Chute
Midnight Picnic by Nick Antosca
The Gaudi Key by Esteban Martin and Andreu Carranza
Oystercatchers by Susan Fletcher
A Partisan's Daughter by Louis de Bernieres
Small Lives by Pierre Michon
The Nightingales of Troy by Alice Fulton
The Fifth Floor by Michael Harvey
On a Day Like This by Peter Stamm
The Silver Linings Playbook by Matthew Quick
Miles from Nowhere by Nami Mun
Vicious Circle by Mike Carey
Songs for the Missing by Stewart O'Nan
Islands of Divine Music by John Addiego
The Little Book by Selden Edwards
Winter in the Blood by James Welch
Months and Seasons by Christopher Meeks
Sea of Poppies by Amitav Ghosh
La Medusa by Vanessa Place
The Bruise by Magdalena Zurawski
Missy by Chris Hannan
Posted by Jessa Crispin at 11:25 AM
July 03, 2008
Poetry
Rare and More Wonderful by Trevor Calvert (Scrambler Books)
The Heaven Sent Leaf by Katy Lederer (BOA)
City of Corners by John Godfrey (Wave Books)
The Moon Makes Its Own Plea by Wendy Mnookin (BOA)
iEpiphany by Amy Catanzano (Erudite Fangs)
Please Do Not Feed the Ghost by Peter Ramos (BlazeVox)
The Wave-Maker by Elizabeth Spires (WW Norton)
The Usable Field by Jane Mead (Alice James)
Face Before Against by Isabelle Garron (Litmus)
Ashbery: Collected Poems 1956-1987 (Library of America)
James Agee: Selected Poems (American Poets Project)
State of the Union: 50 Political Poems edited by Joshua Beckman and Matthew Zapruder (Wave Books)
Posted by Jessa Crispin at 09:18 PM
Fiction
When We Were Romans by Matthew Kneale
The Taker and Other Stories by Rubem Fonesca
The Ghost in Love by Jonathan Carroll
Incandescence by Greg Egan
Shadow of the Scorpion by Neal Asher
Implied Spaces by Walter Jon Williams
I'm With Stupid by Elaine Szewczyk
Disquiet by Julia Leigh
Lala Pipo by Hideo Okuda
Mafeking Road by Herman Charles Bosman
Jambula Tree and Other Stories
Gone Tomorrow by PF Kluge
Will by Christopher Rush
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larson
Stalking Susan by Julie Kramer
Marsupial by Derek White
Occupational Hazards by Jonathan Segura
Lands of Memory by Felisberto Hernandez
Pharmakon by Dirk Wittenborn
Salmonella Men on Planet Porno by Yasutaka Tsutsui
Caligula for President by Cintra Wilson
Conscience Point by Erica Abeel
Alexandra and Alestra by Shan Sa
Three Musketeers by Marcelo Birmajer
Early Bright by Ami Silber
The Writing Class by Jincy Willett
The Condition by Jennifer Haigh
Undiscovered Country by Lin Enger
The Wonder Singer by George Rabasa
The Shadow Pavilion by Liz Williams
The Gone Away World by Nick Harkaway
War by Todd Komarnicki
Valfierno by Martin Caparros
And the Hippos Were Boiled in Their Tanks by William S Burroughs and Jack Kerouac
Tales of the Ten Lost Tribes by Tamar Yellin
Ledfeather by Stephen Graham Jones
Erotomania by Francis Levy
The Right Mistake by Walter Mosley
Inverted World by Christopher Priest
The Howling Miller by Arto Paasilinna
Rancid Pansies by James Hamilton-Paterson
So Long at the Fair by Christina Schwarz
Stray Dog Winter by David Francis
Sorry by Gail Jones
Glass Grapes and Other Stories by Martha Ronk
Libertad by Alma Fullerton
Posted by Jessa Crispin at 08:06 PM
Nonfiction
Emily Post: Daughter of the Gilded Age, Mistress of American Manners by Laura Claridge
Mixing It Up: Taking on the Media Bullies and Other Reflections by Ishmael Reed
Books: A Memoir by Larry McMurtry
The Girl from Foreign: A Search for Shipwrecked Ancestors, Forgotten Histories, and a Sense of Home by Sadia Shepard
One Life to Ride: A Motorcycle Journey to the High Himalayas by Ajit Harisinghani
A Supremely Bad Idea: Three Mad Birders and Their Quest to See It All by Luke Dempsey
Serve the People: A Stir-Fried Journey Through China by Jen Lin-Liu
Fucking Daphne: Mostly True Stories and Fictions by Daphne Gottleib
Janis Ian: Society's Child by Janis Ian
Bad Girls: 26 Writers Misbehave edited by Ellen Sussman
The Norman Maclean Reader: Essays, Letters, and Other Writings by the Author of A River Runs Through It
The Ridiculous Race: 26,000 Miles, 2 Guys, 1 Globe, No Airplanes by Steve Hely & Vali Chandrasekaran
Tycoon's War: How Cornelius Vanderbilt Invaded a Country to Overthrow America's Most Famous Military Adventurer by Stephen Dando-Collins
A Voice for Earth: American Writers Respond to the Earth Charter edited by Peter Blaze Corcoran and A. James Wohlpart
Holy Roller: Growing Up in the Church of Knock Down, Drag Out; Or, How I Quit Loving a Blue-Eyed Jesus by Diane Wilson
Wounded Warriors: Those for Whom the War Never Ends by Mike Sager
Titanic's Last Secrets: The Further Adventures of Shadow Divers by Brad Matsen
Looking for Anne of Green Gables: The Story of LM Montgomery and Her Literary Classic by Irene Gammel
Are You Famous? Touring America with Alaska's Fiddling Poet by Ken Waldman
Lost on Planet China: The Strange and True Story of One Man's Attempt to Understand the World's Most Mystifying Nation by J. Maarten Troost
On Tarzan by Alex Vernon
Dali and I: The Surreal Story by Stan Lauryssens
Why You Should Read Kafka Before You Waste Your Life by James Hawes
The Irish Americans: A History by Jay P Dolan
Resistance by Agnes Humbert
Posted by Jessa Crispin at 08:01 PM