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September 26, 2008
Poetry
Intruder by Jill Bialosky (Knopf)
As It Turned Out by Dmitry Golynko (Ugly Duckling)
Word Comix by Charlie Smith (Norton)
Abstraktion und Einfuhlung by Percival Everett (Black Goat/Akashic)
Anna, Washing by Ted Genoways (VQR/Uni of Georgia)
Salvinia Molesta by Victoria Chang (VQR/Uni of Georgia)
The Scarlet Ibis by Susan Hahn (Northwestern)
The Note She Left by Susan Hahn (Northwestern)
Winter Sky by Coleman Barks (Uni of Georgia)
On Purpose by Nick Laird (Norton)
Kyotologic by Anne Gorrick (Shearsman Books)
Prairie Kaddish by Isa Milman (Coteau)
Restoration by Christina Pugh (TriQuarterly/Northwestern)
Posted by Jessa Crispin at 10:47 PM
September 23, 2008
Nonfiction
Unpacking the Boxes: A Memoir of a Life in Poetry by Donald Hall
Bright Young People: The Lost Generation of London's Jazz Age by DJ Taylor
The Time of Their Lives: The Golden Age of Great American Publishers, Their Editors and Authors by Al Silverman
Edges of Bounty: Adventures in the Edible Valley by William Emery
Devil's Brood: The Last Days of the Tempestuous Marriage of Henry II and Eleanor of Aquitaine by Sharon Kay Penman
Searching for Schindler by Thomas Keneally
Listen to Me: Shared Secrets from WriteGirl
Dark Water: Flood and Redemption in the City of Masterpieces by Robert Clark
Red Princess: A Revolutionary Life by Sofka Zinovieff
The Art of the Public Grovel: Sexual Sin and Public Confession in America by Susan Wise Bauer
A Comrade Lost and Found: A Beijing Story by Jan Wong
Obscene in the Extreme: The Burning and Banning of John Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath by Rick Wartzman
Factory Girls: From Village to City in a Changing China by Leslie T Chang
The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family by Annette Gordon-Reed
The Third Chapter: Passion, Risk, and Adventure in the 25 Years after 50 by Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot
The German Discovery of the World: Renaissance Encounters with the Strange and Marvelous by Christine R Johnson
The Queen's Sorrow by Suzannah Dunn
All Art is Propaganda by George Orwell
Reporting the War: Freedom of the Press from the American Revolution to the War on Terrorism by John Byrne Cooke
Facing Unpleasant Facts: Narrative Essays by George Orwell
A Book of Ages: An Eccentric Miscellany of Great and Offbeat Moments in the Lives of the Famous and Infamous, Ages 1 to 100 by Eric Hanson
La Clinica: A Doctor's Journey Across Borders by David P Sklar
No Choirboy: Murder, Violence, and Teenagers on Death Row by Susan Kuklin
Genius and Heroin: The Illustrated Catalogue of Creativity, Obsession, and Reckless Abandon Through the Ages by Michael Largo
Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith by Deborah Heiligman
Notes on Democracy by HL Mencken
Lost in the Supermarket: An Indie Rock Cookbook by Kay Bozich Owens and Lynn Owens
The Customer is Always Wrong: The Retail Chronicles edited by Jeff Martin
In the Land of Invisible Women: A Female Doctor's Journey in the Saudi Kingdom by Qanta Ahmed, MD
Posted by Jessa Crispin at 07:58 PM
Fiction
Poe's Children: The New Horror edited by Peter Straub
Black Clock Issue #9
Life As It Is: Selected Stories by Nelson Rodrigues
Bowl of Cherries by Millard Kaufman
The Trespasser by Edra Ziesk
Bloodletting and Miraculous Cures by Vincent Lam
The Music Teacher by Barbara Hall
Death with Interruptions by Jose Saramago
Success: Stories by David A Taylor
The Holy City by Patrick McCabe
The Mystic Arts of Erasing All Signs of Death by Charlie Huston
Hit Wave by Jon Leon (Kitchen Press Chapbooks)
The Knucklehead Chronicles by John Andrew Frederick (Full Court Press)
Little Boy Lost by Marghanita Laski
Ladies Lending Library by Janice Kulyk Keefer
Rock Bottom by Michael Shilling
Paris Noir edited by Aurelien Masson
Istanbul Noir edited by Mustafa Ziyalan and Amy Spangler
A Day a Night and a Day by Glen Duncan
An Evil Guest by Gene Wolfe
Equatoria by Tom Dreyer (Aflame)
The Bathroom by Jean-Philippe Toussaint
Camera by Jean-Philippe Toussaint
In Hovering Flight by Joyce Hinnefeld
The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror 2008 edited by Ellen Datlow and Kelly Link and Gavin J Grant
The Ghost in Love by Jonathan Carroll
The Fire Gospel: The Myth of Prometheus by Michel Faber
Doctor Olaf van Schuler's Brain by Kirsten Menger-Anderson
Ghosts of Chicago by John McNally
Once: Stories by Rebecca Rosenblum
Dying Unfinished by Maria Espinosa
Fault Lines by Nancy Huston
The Riddle of Qaf by Alberto Mussa
The Howling Miller by Arto Paasilinna
Rancid Pansies by James Hamilton-Paterson
I Wanna Be Your Joey Ramone by Stephanie Kuehnert
Visit Me in California by Cooley Windsor
Posted by Jessa Crispin at 07:43 PM
September 12, 2008
Poetry
Ashbery: Collected Poems 1956-1987 (Library of America)
To the Eaves by Lisa Forrest (BlazeVox)
A Whaler's Dictionary by Dan Beachy-Quick (Milkweed)
Halflife by Meghan O'Rourke (WW Norton)
Revolver by Robyn Schiff (University of Iowa)
Oneiromance (an epithalamion) by Kathleen Rooney (Switchback)
The Shadow of Sirius by WS Merwin (Copper Canyon)
A Witch's Dictionary by Sarah Kennedy (Elixir)
Cities of Flesh and the Dead by Diann Blakely (Elixir)
Seven Floors Up by Cati Porter (Mayapple)
Halo Rule by Teresa Leo (Elixir)
James Agee: Selected Poems (American Poets Project)
Posted by Jessa Crispin at 02:50 PM
September 11, 2008
Fiction
Last Days by Brian Evenson
The Pilo Family Circus by Will Elliott
White Fungus, Issue #9
Company of Liars by Karen Maitland
We Are DNA by Brian Lucas
Life After Genius by M Ann Jacoby
The Lemoine Affair by Marcel Proust
The Flying Troutmans by Miriam Toews
Crust by Lawrence Shainberg
The Wonder Singer by George Rabasa
As a Friend by Forrest Gander
Berlin by Michael Mirolla
Cycler by Lauren McLaughlin
Hymn California by Adam Gnade
The Butt by Will Self
Winnie and Wolf by AN Wilson
Holy Communion by Mykola Dementiuk
Glass Grapes and Other Stories by Martha Ronk
The Heretic Queen by Michelle Moran
A Day and a Night and a Day by Glen Duncan
What Makes a Child Lucky by Gioia Timpanelli
The Given Day by Dennis Lehane
The Air We Breathe by Andrea Barrett
Exit Music by Ian Rankin
We Agreed to Meet Just Here by Scott Blackwood
One Dog Happy by Molly McNett
Peripheral Vision by Patricia Ferguson
Brooklyn Bridge by Karen Hesse
Kill Your Friends by John Niven
The Road Home by Rose Tremain
When Will There Be Good News by Kate Atkinson
Goldengrove by Francine Prose
Pay This Amount by Daniel Scott
Posted by Jessa Crispin at 09:45 PM
Nonfiction
Good Calories, Bad Calories: Fats, Carbs, and the Controversial Science of Diet and Health by Gary Taubes
Stirring the Mud: On Swamps, Bogs, and Human Imagination; Entering the Stone: On Caves and Feeling through the Dark; and Walking the Wrack Line: On Tidal Shifts and What Remains, all by Barbara Hurd
The Future of Liberalism by Alan Wolfe
Blood River: A Journey to Africa's Broken Heart by Tim Butcher
Follow for Now: Interviews with Friends and Heroes edited by Roy Christopher
Resurrecting Hebrew by Ilan Stavans
The Best American Travel Writing 2008: edited by Anthony Bourdain
Waiting for the Apocalypse: A Memoir of Faith and Family by Veronica Chater
Northern Arts: The Breakthrough of Scandinavian Literature and Art, from Ibsen to Bergman by Arnold Weinstein
The Letters of Ted Hughes edited by Christopher Reid
Sound Against Flame: The Process of Yoga and Atheism in America by Derek Beres
War Is: Soldiers, Survivors, and Storytellers Talk About War edited by Mark Aronson and Patty Campbell
Wreck of the Carl D: A True Story of Loss, Survival, and Rescue at Sea by Michael Schumacher
State by State: A Panoramic Portrait of America edited by Matt Weiland and Sean Wilsey
The Secret Life of Words: How English Became English by Henry Hitchings
Nature's Blueprint: Supersymmetry and the Search for a Unified Theory of Matter and Force by Dan Hooper
America's Food: What You Don't Know About What You Eat by Harvey Blatt
Cleaning Up: How I Gave Up Drinking and Lived by Tania Glyde
The Hedgehog's Dilemma: A Tale of Obsession, Nostalgia, and the World's Most Charming Mammal by Hugh Warwick
An Exact Replica of a Figment of My Imagination by Elizabeth McCracken
Posted by Jessa Crispin at 09:37 PM
September 03, 2008
Graphic Novels
Ambrose Bierce (Graphic Classics)
BFF by Nate Beaty (Microcosm)
Welcome to the Dahl House: Alienation, Incarceration, and Inebriation in the New American Rome by Ken Dahl (Microcosm)
Halo and Sprocket: Natural Creatures by Kerry Callen (SLG)
American Widow by Alissa Torres and Sungyoon Choi (Villard)
Afro Samurai by Takashi Okazaki (Tor)
Deitch's Pictorama: The Golem by Kim Dietch (Fantagraphics)
Love and Rockets: New Stories by the Hernandez Brothers (Fantagraphics)
The Portable Frank by Jim Woodring (Fantagraphics)
Mr Spic Goes to Washington by Ilan Stevens (Soft Skull)
Isadora Duncan: A Graphic Biography by Sabrina Jones (Hill and Wang)
Tiki Joe Mysteries: The High-Stakes Patsy by Mark Murphy
Bourbon Island 1730 by Appollo and Lewis Trondheim (First Second)
Sardine in Outer Space 6 by Emmanuel Guibert (First Second)
Invincible Summer Volume II by Nicole Georges (Microcosm)
Posted by Jessa Crispin at 05:35 PM