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August 28, 2008
Poetry
Body Language by Mark Cunningham (Tarpaulin Sky)
Grief Lessons: Four Plays by Euripides, Translated by Anne Carson (NYRB)
Trouble and Honey by Jilly Dybka (Bear Shirt)
Reality Check by Dennis O'Driscoll (Copper Canyon)
Provenance by Brandel France de Bravo (Washinton Writers' Publishing House)
Everyday People by Kevin Coval (Em Press)
Warhol-o-rama by Peter Oresick (Carnegie Mellon University)
Flawed Landscape: Poems 1987 - 2008 by Sharif S Elmusa (Interlink)
Fables of the Self: Studies in Lyric Poetry by Rosanna Warren (WW Norton)
Posted by Jessa Crispin at 01:02 PM
Nonfiction
A Year in High Heels: The Girl's Guide to the Seasons by Camilla Morton
Le Corbusier: A Life by Nicholas Fox Weber
Gorgeous George: The Outrageous Bad Boy Wrestler Who Created American Pop Culture by John Capouya
The Great Age of the English Essay: An Anthology by Denise Gigante
Remembering Sam: A Wartime Story of Love, Loss, and Redemption by David Everitt
The Long Descent: A User's Guide to the End of the Industrial Age by John Michael Greer
Artificial Light: A Narrative Inquiry into the Nature of Abstraction, Immediacy, and other Architectural Fictions by Keith Mitnick
Make Em Laugh: The Funny Business of America by Laurence Maslon and Michael Kantor
Last Supper of Chicano Heroes by Jose Antonio Burciaga
Between the Covers: The Book Babes' Guide to a Woman's Reading Pleasure by Margo Hammond and Ellen Heltzel
The Life of David by Robert Pinsky
Mostly True: The West's Most Popular Hobo Graffiti Magazine by Bill Daniel
The Liberal Imagination by Lionel Trilling
Benjamin Disraeli by Adam Kirsch
The Mascot: Unraveling the Msytery of My Jewish Father's Nazi Boyhood by Mark Kurzem
The House at Sugar Beach by Helene Cooper
The Irregulars: Roald Dahl and the British Spy Ring in Wartime Washington by Jennet Conant
World Greatest Architect: Making, Meaning, and Network Culture by William J Mitchell
That Mean Old Yesterday by Stacey Patton
Napoleon & St Helena: On the Island of Exile by Johannes Willms
Portrait of the Gulf Stream: In Praise of Currents by Erik Orsenna
Seeking Provence: Old Myths, New Paths by Nicholas Woodsworth
Posted by Jessa Crispin at 12:17 AM
Fiction
Kalila and Dimna: Fables of Friendship and Betrayal by Ramsay Wood
Broken by Daniel Clay
If the Heart is Lean by Margaret Luongo
Best American Fantasy 2008 edited by Ann and Jeff VanderMeer
Mr Gaunt and Other Uneasy Encounters by John Langan
The China Lover by Ian Buruma
Fine Just the Way It Is: Wyoming Stories 3 by Annie Proulx
The Private Patient by PD James
Free-Range Chickens by Simon Rich
Icarus at the Edge of Time by Brian Greene
In the Land of No Right Angles by Daphne Beal
The Silver Linings Playbook by Matthew Quick
The Sacrificial Circumcision of the Bronx by Arthur Nersesian
Demons in the Spring by Joe Meno
The Bruise by Magdalena Zurawski
Superstitions of Apartment Life by Pedro Ponce
Bad Monkeys by Matt Ruff
The Swing Voter of Staten Island by Arthur Nersesian
Suburban Swindle by Jackie Corley
The Private Lives of Pippa Lee by Rebecca Miller
The Book of Murder by Guillermo Martinez
Deaf Sentence by David Lodge
Rock Crystal by Adalbert Stifter
Fog & Car by Eugene Lim
Waste by Eugene Marten
The Open Face Sandwich
A Pretty Face by Rafael Reig
Tinkers by Paul Harding
Strip Club Bible by Solomon Nix
Posted by Jessa Crispin at 12:07 AM
August 16, 2008
Hard Reds by Brandi Homan (Shearsman)
The Turning by Maxine Chernoff (Apogee)
Bodywearers by Connie Colwell Millet (Sol)
Eyeseas by Raymond Queneau (Black Widow)
The Poems of A O Barnabooth by Valery Larbaud (Black Widow)
House Held Together by Winds by Sabra Loomis (Harper Perennial)
Variations on a Natural Theme: A Loon Year by Hugh Hennedy (Hobblebush)
The Cosmopolitan by Donna Stonecipher (Coffee House)
Cloisters by Kristin Bock (Tupelo)
Same Life by Maureen McLane
Zero Readership: An Epic by Filip Marinovich (Ugly Duckling)
Divine Comedy: Journeys Through a Regional Geography by John Kinsella (WW Norton)
Strange Harbors: World Writing in Translation (Center for the Art of Translation)
Necropolis by Jill Alexander Essbaum (NeoNuma)
Posted by Jessa Crispin at 10:17 PM
Nonfiction
Digging for Dirt: The Life and Death of ODB by Jaime Lowe
Talking Hands by Margalit Fox
Love Junkie: A Memoir by Rachel Resnick
White King and Red Queen: How the Cold War was Fought on the Chessboard by Daniel Johnson
X Films: True Confessions of a Radical Filmmaker by Alex Cox
Honour Killing: Stories of Men Who Killed by Ayse Onal
My Father's Paradise: A Son's Search for His Jewish Past in Kurdish Iraq by Ariel Sabar
Red Highways: A Liberal's Journey into the Heartland by Rose Aguilar
Report on Myself by Gregoire Bouillier
Max Factor: The Man Who Changed the Faces of the World by Fred E Basten
Florence Nightingale: The Making of an Icon by Mark Bostridge
The Same Man: George Orwell and Evelyn Waugh in Love and War by David Lebedoff
Hotter Than That: The Trumpet, Jazz, and American Culture by Krin Gabbard
The Paradise of All These Parts: A Natural History of Boston by John Hanson Mitchell
7 Deadly Sins: A Very Partial List by Aviad Kleinberg
Surprised by God: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Religion by Danya Ruttenberg
The Brenner Assignment: The Untold Story of the Most Daring Spy Mission of World War II by Patrick K O'Donnell
Frontier Medicine by David Dary
Crazy Loco Love: A Memoir by Victor Villasenor
Submersion Journalism: Reporting in the Radical First Person from Harper's Magazine edited by Bill Wasik
The King and the Cowboy: Theodore Roosevelt and Edward the 7th, Secret Partners by David Fromkin
Baad Bitches and Sassy Supermamas: Black Power Action Films by Stephane Dunn
I'll Have What She's Having: Behind the Scenes of the Great Romantic Comedies by Daniel M Kimmel
The Price of Everything: A Parable of Possibility and Prosperity by Russell Roberts
Searching for Cioran by Ilinca Zarifopol-Johnston
Posted by Jessa Crispin at 08:32 PM
Fiction
Pashtun Tales from the Pakistan-Afghan Frontier by Aisha Ahmed and Roger Boase
Modern Arabic Short Stories: A Bilingual Reader by Ronak Husni and Daniel Newman
Translating Libya: The Modern Libyan Short Story by Ethan Chorin
The Year of the Revolutionary New Bread-Making Machine by Hassan Daoud
Dinaane: Short Stories by South African Women edited by Maggie Davey
A Map of Home by Randa Jarrar
Metropole by Ferenc Karinthy
A History of the World for Rebels and Somnambulists by Jesus del Campo
The Blue Fox by Sjon
The Ice People by Maggie Gee
Submerged: Tales from the Basin edited by Lauren Gonzalez
Holding Pattern: Stories by Jeffery Renard Allen
Mind Games by David Gianatasio (Word Riot)
Something to Tell You by Hanif Kureishi
The Tsar's Dwarf by Peter H Fogtdal
Blindspot by Jane Kamensky and Jill Lepore
Crime by Irvine Welsh
Not Yet Drown'd by Peg Kingman
People of the Whale by Linda Hogan
La Linea by Ann Jaramillo
The Sacred Book of the Werewolf by Victor Pelevin
Most Likely You Go Your Way and I'll Go Mine by Ben Tanzer
The Sin Eaters by Andrew Beahrs
What You Call Winter by Nalini Jones
College Girl by Patricia Weitz
Holding My Breath by Sidura Ludwig
Son of Man by Robert Silverberg
How Far is the Ocean from Here by Amy Shearn
The Grift by Debra Ginsberg
Tethered by Amy MacKinnon
Supreme Courtship by Christopher Buckley
Serena by Ron Rash
Nov 22, 1963 by Adam Braver
A Week in October by Elizabeth Subercaseaux
Ximena by Hillary Raphael
A Mercy by Toni Morrison
A Field Guide to Surreal Botany edited by Janet Chui and Jason Erik Lundberg (Two Cranes)
Promenade of the Gods by Koji Suzuki
Flying Saucer Rock and Roll by Richard Blandford
In the Garden of Men by John Kupferschmidt
The World a Moment Later by Amir Gutfreund
Bad Habits by Cristy C Road
Posted by Jessa Crispin at 08:11 PM
August 02, 2008
Corridor by Josephine Singer (Borderland)
The Complete Poetry of Cesar Vallejo (University of California)
Dear Regime: Letters to the Islamic Republic by Roger Sedarat (Ohio University)
Hide Now by Glyn Maxwell (Houghton Mifflin)
The Steel Veil by Jack Marshall (Coffee House)
Body Clock by Eleni Sikelianos (Coffee House)
Blood Dazzler by Patricia Smith (Coffee House)
Jealous Witness by Andrei Codrescu (Coffee House)
The Heaven-Sent Leaf by Katy Lederer (BOA)
Shadow Architect by Emily Warn (Copper Canyon)
Easy Marks by Gail White (David Robert Books)
Posted by Jessa Crispin at 01:20 PM
August 01, 2008
Nonfiction
The Suicide Index: Putting My Father's Death in Order by Joan Wickersham
The Decline and Fall of the British Empire: 1781-1997 by Piers Brendon
The Age of Entanglement: When Quantum Physics was Reborn by Louisa Gilder
Searching for Schindler by Thomas Keneally
Trick or Treatment: The Undeniable Facts about Alternative Medicine by Simon Singh and Edzard Ernst
Can You Ever Forgive Me? Memoirs of a Literary Forger by Lee Israel
Alfred and Emily by Doris Lessing
Jetpack Dreams: One Man's Up and Down Search for the Greatest Invention that Never Was by Mac Montandon
Lydia's Open Door: Inside Mexico's Most Modern Brothel by Patty Kelly
Dirty White Boy: Tales of Soho by Clayton Littlewood
The Writer as Migrant by Ha Jin
Ancient Shore: Dispatches from Naples by Shirley Hazzard and Francis Steegmuller
Swindled: The Dark History of Food Fraud, from Poisoned Candy to Counterfeit Coffee by Bee Wilson
It Still Moves: Lost Songs, Lost Highways, and the Search for the Next American Music by Amanda Petrusich
Hellions: Pop Culture's Rebel Women by Maria Raha
Autophobia: Love and Hate in the Automotive Age by Brian Ladd
Everything but the Squeal: Eating the Whole Hog in Northern Spain
The Dancer Within: Intimate Conversations with Great Dancers by Rose Eichenbaum
Simone de Beauvoir: Wartime Diary 1939-1941 edited by Margaret A Simons
The Bookmaker: A Memoir of Money, Luck, and Family from the Utopian Outskirts of New York City by Michael J. Agovino
The Night of the Gun: A Reporter Investigates the Darkest Story of His Life. His Own by David Carr
Dark Water: Flood and Redemption in the City of Masterpieces by Robert Clark
Walking Through Walls: A Memoir by Philip Smith
Posted by Jessa Crispin at 03:09 PM
Fiction
My Fantoms by Theophile Gautier
In Hazard by Richard Hughes
Black and White and Dead All Over by John Darnton
The Bone Magician by FE Higgins
Brooklyn Bridge by Karen Hesse
19th Wife by David Ebershoff
The Man Back There and Other Stories by David Crouse
The Man in the Blizzard by Bard Schneider
Nothing by Robin Friedman
A Night in the Cemetery: And Other Stories of Crime & Suspense by Anton Chekhov
Suzy, Led Zeppelin, and Me by Martin Millar
Homage to Czerny: Studies in Virtuoso Technique by Gert Jonke
The Dart League King by Keith Lee Morris
Skeletons at the Feast by Chris Bohjalian
Use of Weapons by Iain M Banks
The Defenestration of Bob T. Hash III by David Deans
One More Year by Sana Krasikov
The Veil of Gold by Kim Wilkins
Canvey Island by James Runcie
The Order of Odd-Fish by James Kennedy
The Best American Short Stories 2008 edited by Salman Rushdie
Based on the Movie by Billy Taylor
The Little Giant of Aberdeen County by Tiffany Baker
It's a Crime by Jacqueline Carey
Family Planning by Karan Mahajan
Right to Die by Hazel McHaffie
The Seamstress by Frances de Pontes Peebles
The Tragedy of MacBeth Part II: The Seed of Banquo by Noah Lukeman
Shining at the Bottom of the Sea by Stephen Marche
The Art of Friction: Where [Non]Fictions Come Together edited by Charles Blackstone and Jill Talbot
Man in the Dark by Paul Auster
Leather Maiden by Joe R. Lansdale
Posted by Jessa Crispin at 02:51 PM
Graphic Novels
Where Demented Wented: The Art and Comics of Rory Hayes (Fantagraphics)
The Shortpants BServer edited by Sarah Becan (Shortpants Press)
Japan Ai: A Tall Girl's Adventures in Japan by Aimee Major Steinberger (Go! Comi)
The Good Neighbors: Book One by Holly Black and Ted Naifeh (Graphix)
The Goddess of War by Laura Weinstein (Picturebox)
Wormdye by Eamon Espey (Secret Acres)
My Brain is Hanging Upside Down by David Heatley (Pantheon)
The New York Four by Brian Wood and Ryan Kelly (Minx)
The Lost Colony: Book 3, or Last Rights by Grady Klein (First Second)
We Lost the War but Not the Battle by Michel Gondry (Picturebox)
Gus and His Gang by Chris Blain (First Second)
Prism Comics: Your LGBT Guide to Comics
Posted by Jessa Crispin at 02:41 PM