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December 20, 2008
Poetry
Holiday by Jennifer Firestone (Shearsman Books)
Shelter by Carey Salerno (Alice James)
Sestets by Charles Wright (FSG)
Reading Novalis in Montana by Melissa Kwasny (Milkweed)
The Pangborn Defence by Norm Sibum (Biblioasis)
Shut Up, You're Fine: Poems for Very, Very Bad Children by Andrew Hudgins (Overlook)
Satellite Convulsions: Poems from Tin House (Tin House)
Of This World by Joseph Stroud (Copper Canyon)
Posted by Jessa Crispin at 06:32 PM
December 19, 2008
Nonfiction
The Thoreau You Don't Know: What the Prophet of Environmentalism Really Meant by Robert Sullivan
Darwin Slept Here: Discovery, Adventure, and Swimming Iguanas in Charles Darwin's South America by Eric Simons
Rimbaud: The Double Life of a Rebel by Edmund White
Birth Day: A Pediatrician Explores the Science, the History, and the Wonder of Childbirth by Mark Sloan, MD
The Last Divine Office: Henry VIII and the Dissolution of the Monasteries by Geoffrey Moorhouse
The Great Arab Conquests: How the Spread of Islam Changed the World We Live In by Hugh Kennedy
Dry Manhattan: Prohibition in New York City by Michael Lerner
A Final Arc of Sky by Jennifer Culkin
The Fires of Vesuvius: Pompeii Lost and Found by Mary Beard
The Adventures of Cancer Bitch by S L Wisenberg
Kidnapped and Other Dispatches from Our Own Correspondent by Alan Johnston
Darwin's Angel: An Angelic Riposte to The God Delusion by John Cornwell
The Uncrowned King: The Sensational Rise of William Randolph Hearst by Kenneth Whyte
Ancestral Roots: Modern Living and Human Evolution by Timothy Clack
Inside the Stalin Archives: Discovering the New Russia by Jonathan Brent
Losing Everything: A Memoir by David Lozell Martin
Your Death Would Be Mine: Paul and Marie Pireaud in the Great War by Martha Hanna
Inside the Stalin Archives: Discovering the New Russia by Jonathan Brent
The Templars: The Secret History Revealed by Barbara Frale
Toward 2012: Perspectives on the Next Age edited by Daniel Pinchbeck and Ken Jordan
Bond of Union: Building the Erie Canal and the American Empire by Gerard Koeppel
Posted by Jessa Crispin at 04:15 PM
Fiction
The Withdrawal Method by Pasha Malla
The Angel Maker by Stefan Brijs
The Moment Between by Nicole Baart
Bone Rattler by Eliot Pattison
Pieces for the Left Hand by J Robert Lennon
The Family Man by Elinor Lipman
Blonde Roots by Bernardine Evaristo
Songs My Mother Never Taught Me by Selcuk Altun
Never Tell a Lie by Hallie Ephron
The House of Bilqis by Azhar Abidi
The World in Half by Cristina Henriquez
The Imposter by Damon Galgut
The Typewriter Satyr by Dwight Allen
In Love with Jerzy Kosinski by Agate Nesaule
The Redbreast by Jo Nesbo
Nemesis by Jo Nesbo
Lima Nights by Marie Arana
The Piano Teacher by Janice Y K Lee
Old Flame by Ira Berkowitz
Nobody Move by Denis Johnson
Tea and Other Ayama Na Tales by Eleanor Bluestein
The Bridge of the Golden Horn by Emine Sevgi Ozdamar
The Last Days of the Lacuna Cabal by Sean Dixon
Cham by Jonathan Trigell
Murder in the Latin Quarter by Cara Black
Jack London in Paradise by Paul Malmont
Another Life by Andrew Vachss
Still Alice by Lisa Genova
Noise: Fiction Inspired by Sonic Youth edited by Peter Wild
If You Eat, You Never Die by Tony Romano
English by Wang Gang
Show Me the Sky by Nicholas Hogg
Impotent by Matthew Roberson
The Illustrated Version of Things by Affinity Konar
Persistence of Memory by Amelia Atwater-Rhodes
Look at Me Now by Thomas J. Hubschman
The Republic of Vengeance by Paul Waters
The Risk of Darkness by Susan Hill
The Possession by Annie Ernaux
The Long Fall by Walter Mosley
Memoirs of a Midget by Walter de la Mare
The Poison Ape by Arimasa Osawa
Night Navigation by Ginnah Howard
Shadow and Light by Jonathan Rabb
Posted by Jessa Crispin at 02:15 PM
Graphic Novels
The Soddyssey by Batton Lash (Exhibit A Press)
Notes Over Yonder: A Story in Two Parts by Scott Morse (AdHouse Books)
Capacity by Theo Ellsworth (Secret Acres)
Love the Way You Love by Jamie S Rich and Marc Ellerby (Oni Press)
The Lagoon by Lilli Carre (Fantagraphics)
Tiger! Tiger! Tiger! by Scott Morse (AdHouse Books)
The Venice Chronicles by Enrico Casarosa (AdHouse Books)
Isadora Duncan: A Graphic Biography by Sabrina Jones (Hill and Wang)
The Spirit: Femmes Fatales by Will Eisner (DC Comics)
A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens (Classical Comics)
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte (Classical Comics)
M. Hatter: The Looking Glass Wars by Frank Beddor with Liz Cavalier (Automatic Pictures)
Labor Days: A Revolution in Print by Philip Gelatt and Rick Lacy (Oni)
Posted by Jessa Crispin at 02:03 PM
December 07, 2008
Poetry
Parataxis by Matt Hill (BlazeVOX)
The Life and Opinions of DJ Spinoza by Eugene Ostashevsky (Ugly Duckling)
An Orestia translated by Anne Carson (Faber & Faber)
Parish Krewes by Micah Ballard (Bootstrap)
Mercury Dressing by J D McClatchy (Knopf)
Re: evolution by Kim Rosenfield (Les Figues)
Astrometry Orgonon by Mark Lamoureux (BlazeVOX)
The Hymns of Job and Other Poems by Maya Bejerano (BOA Editions)
Breaking the Map by Kim-An Lieberman (Blue Begonia)
Banalities by Brane Mozetic (Midsummer Night's Press)
The All Purpose Magical Tent by Lytton Smith (Nightboat)
Tinderbox Lawn: Prose Poems by Carol Guess (Rose Metal)
Word Comix by Charlie Smith (W W Norton)
What Goes On: Selected and New Poems 1995-2009 by Stephen Dunn (W W Norton)
Posted by Jessa Crispin at 03:28 PM
Nonfiction
Adam's Tongue: How Humans Made Language, How Language Made Humans by Derek Bickerton
Victor Fleming: An American Movie Master by Michael Sragow
A Human Eye: Essays on Art in Society, 1996-2008 by Adrienne Rich
Made for Each Other: The Biology of the Human-Animal Bond by Meg Daley Olmert
House of Houses by Pat Mora
Sex and War: How Biology Explains Warfare and Terrorism and Offers a Path to a Safer World by Malcolm Potts and Thomas Hayden
Grave Matters: A Journey through the Modern Funeral Industry to a Natural Way of Burial by Mark Harris
The Philosophers' Quarrel: Rousseau, Hume, and the Limits of Human Understanding by Robert Zaretsky and John T Scott
Samuel Johnson: The Struggle by Jeffrey Meyers
Fans of the World Unite: A (Capitalist) Manifesto for Sports Consumers by Stephen F Ross and Stefan Szymanski
Femmes of Power: Exploding Queer Femininities by Del Lagrace Volcano and Ulrika Dahl
Nella Last's Peace: The Post-War Diaries of Housewife, 49 edited by Patricia and Robert Malcolmson
Talking Out of School: Memoir of an Educated Woman by Kass Fleisher
Shakespeare and Modern Culture by Marjorie Garber
Voluntary Madness: My Year Lost and Found in the Loony Bin by Norah Vincent
Hats and Eyeglasses by Martha Frankel
John Zorn: Tradition and Transgression by John Brackett
Every Living Thing: Man's Obsessive Quest to Catalog Life, from Nanobacteria to New Monkeys by Rob Dunn
Danger Pay: Memoir of a Photojournalist in the Middle East, 1984-1994 by Carol Spencer Mitchell
A Daughter's Love: Thomas More and His Dearest Meg by John Guy
The Adventures of Arthur Conan Doyle by Russell Miller
The Hedgehog's Dilemma: A Tale of Obsession, Nostalgia, and the World's Most Charming Mammal by Hugh Warwick
7 Deadly Sins: A Very Partial List by Aviad Kleinberg
How Lincoln Learned to Read: Twelve Great Americans and the Education that Made Them by Daniel Wolff
Stolen Bases: Why American Girls Don't Play Baseball by Jennifer Ring
Black Smoke: A Woman's Journey of Healing, Wild Love, and Transformation in the Amazon by Margaret De Wys
Posted by Jessa Crispin at 01:44 PM
Fiction
Five Spice Street by Can Xue
A Not So Perfect Crime by Teresa Solana
Asta in the Wings by Jan Elizabeth Watson
We Are Rich by Dori Carter
Amberville by Tim Davys
Sidebrow, Issue 1
Tinkers by Paul Harding
Motel of the Stars by Karen Salyer McElmurray
Rancho Weirdo by Laura Chester
Age of the Orphans by Laleh Khadivi
Miles from Nowhere by Nami Mun
Dancehall Road by Marion Douglas
Secret Son by Laila Lalami
The Plain Sense of Things by Pamela Carter Joern
The World a Moment Later by Amir Gutfreund
Three Musketeers by Marcelo Birmajer
Every Man Dies Alone by Hans Fallada
NoVA by James Boice
Livability: Stories by Jon Raymond
Shambling Towards Hiroshima by James Morrow
Captioning for the Blind by Rebecca Bengal
The Interrogation by J M G Le Clezio
Wonder by Hugo Claus
The Twin by Gerbrand Bakker
Octavius the 1st by Gaylord Brewer
Big Wheel at the Cracker Factory by Mickey Hess
The Bellini Madonna by Elizabeth Lowry
The Seine was Red: Paris, October 1961 (English translation) by Leila Sebbar
The Book of Night Women by Marlon James
Passenger by Billy Cowie
Burnt Shadows by Kamila Shamsie
The Vampire of Ropraz by Jacques Chessex
Driven or Forced Onward by or as if by Wind or Water by Edgar Mollere
Heart and Soul by Maeve Binchy
Habitus: Diaspora Journal, Number 4: New Orleans
Best of Contemporary Mexican Fiction edited by Alvaro Uribe
Animal Shelter, Number 1
The Sound of Building Coffins by Louis Maistros
The Long Trial of Nolan Dugatti
Posted by Jessa Crispin at 01:10 PM