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January 31, 2009
Poetry
Lucy by Jean Valentine (Sarabande)
Breakfast with Thom Gunn by Randall Mann (University of Chicago)
Hollywood and God by Robert Polito (University of Chicago)
Tuned Droves by Eric Baus (Octopus Books)
The Lions by Peter Campion (University of Chicago)
Darwin: A Life in Poems by Ruth Padel (Knopf)
The Veiled Suite: The Collected Poems by Agha Shahid Ali (WW Norton)
Posted by Jessa Crispin at 12:26 PM
January 30, 2009
Nonfiction
How We Decide by Jonah Lehrer
Einstein's Telescope: The Hunt for Dark Matter and Dark Energy in the Universe by Evalyn Gates
Hella Nation: The Totally Lost Tribes of America by Evan Wright
Waiting for the Apocalypse: A Memoir of Faith and Family by Veronica Chater
North Korea Kidnapped My Daughter by Sakie Yokota
The Constant Fire: Beyond the Science vs. Religion Debate by Adam Frank
Racing Odysseus: A College President Becomes a Freshman Again by Roger H. Martin
True to Life: Twenty-Five Years of Conversations with David Hockney by Lawrence Weschler
Seeing is Forgetting the Name of the Thing One Sees: Over Thirty Years of Conversations with Robert Irwin by Lawrence Weschler
The Philosopher and the Wolf: Lessons from the Wild on Love, Death, and Happiness by Mark Rowlands
An American Trilogy: Death, Slavery and Dominion on the Banks of the Cape Fear River by Steven M Wise
The Last Days of the Romanovs: Tragedy at Ekaterinburg by Helen Rappaport
My Father's Roses: A Family's Journey from WWI to Treblinka by Nancy Kohner
Columbine by Dave Cullen
Posted by Jessa Crispin at 09:06 PM
Fiction
Brothers by Yu Hua
The Hospital for Bad Poets by J C Hallman
Censoring an Iranian Love Story by Shahriar Mandanipour
The Thing Around Your Neck by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Pop Apocalypse: A Possible Satire by Lee Konstantinou
Now You See Him by Eli Gottlieb
Dream House by Valerie Laken
Little Bee by Chris Cleave
In Other Rooms, Other Wonders by Daniyal Mueenuddin
Promised Virgins: A Novel of Jihad by Jeffrey Fleishman
The Signal by Ron Carlson
The Last Llanelli Train by Robert Lewis
Water Dogs by Lewis Robinson
Futureproof by N Frank Daniels
Far Bright Star by Robert Olmstead
How to Sell by Clancy Martin
A Leap by Anna Enquist
Valley of Strength by Shulamit Lapid
Come Sunday by Isla Morley
Sandhogs by Thomas Kelly
Ash Dogs by Justin Nicholes
How I Became a Famous Novelist by Steve Hely
The Good Parents by Joan London
Out of My Skin by John Haskell
The Vagrants by Yiyun Li
Foreign Tongue by Vanina Marsot
Madewell Brown by Rick Collignon
Valeria's Last Stand by Marc Fitten
Shuck by Daniel Allen Cox
Riverbig by Aris Janigian
Garcia's Heart by Liam Durcan
The Baptism of Billy Bean by Roger Alan Skipper
The Blessing of a Broken Heart by Sherri Mandell
Havana Fever by Leonardo Padura
The Slow Fix by Ivan Coyote
Atlas of Unknowns by Tania James
Blood of the Wicked by Leighton Gage
The Music Teacher by Barbara Hall
Scrapbook of My Years as a Zealot by Nicole Markotic
The Seance by John Harwood
The Second Death of Goodluck Tinubu by Michael Stanley
Revenge of the Teacher's Pet by Darrin Doyle
Love Stories in this Town by Amanda Eyre Ward
Appassionata by Eva Hoffman
Posted by Jessa Crispin at 08:18 PM
January 17, 2009
Poetry
Mistaken for Song by Tara Bray (Persea)
Polytheogamy by Timothy Liu, paintings by Greg Drasler (Saturnalia)
Night Work by C E Perry (Sarabande)
Awayward by Jennifer Kronovet (BOA)
Struggling Times by Louis Simpson (BOA)
Far from Algiers by Djelloul Marbrook (Kent State University)
Delivered by Sarah Gambito (Persea)
Still to Mow by Maxine Kumine (WW Norton)
The Tree of No by Sandy Florian (Action Books)
Maximum Gaga by Lara Glenum (Action Books)
The Plath Cabinet by Catherine Bowman (Four Way)
The Currency by Paul Otremba (Four Way)
And So by Joel Brouwer (Four Way)
Latin Love Lessons: Put a Little Ovid in Your Life by Charlotte Higgins
Rising by Farrah Field (Four Way)
Posted by Jessa Crispin at 03:41 PM
Nonfiction
The Subversive Copy Editor: Advice from Chicago by Carol Fisher Saller
Mistress of the Monarchy: The Life of Katherine Swynford, Duchess of Lancaster by Alison Weir
Thousands of Broadways: Dreams and Nightmares of the American Small Town by Robert Pinsky
Che's Afterlife: The Legacy of an Image by Michael Casey
Where Did You Sleep Last Night?: A Personal History by Danzy Senna
Little Pink House: A True Story of Defiance and Courage by Jeff Benedict
Postcards from Tomorrow Square: Reports from China by James Fallows
Mothers and Others: The Evolutionary Origins of Mutual Understanding by Sarah Blaffer Hrdy
The Other Side of Desire by Daniel Bergner
Marvelous Melba: The Extraordinary Life of a Great Diva by Ann Blainley
The Children in Room E4: American Education on Trial by Susan Eaton
The Thin Black Line: True Stories by Black Law Enforcement Officers Policing America's Meanest Streets by Hugh Holton
The Jewish Body by Melvin Konner
Dating Jesus: A Story of Fundamentalism, Feminism, and the American Girl by Susan Campbell
Forbidden Bread: A Memoir by Erica Johnson Debeljak
Red Chicago: American Communism at Its Grassroots: 1928-35 by Randi Storch
My Germany by Lev Raphael
Walking the Precipice: Witness to the Rise of the Taliban in Afghanistan by Barbara Bick
Plenty Enough Suck to Go Around: A Memoir of Floods, Fires, Parades, and Plywood by Cheryl Wagner
I am a Man: Chief Standing Bear's Journey for Justice by Joe Starita
Posted by Jessa Crispin at 02:21 PM
Fiction
The Sailor from Gibraltar by Marguerite Duras
The Novel by Nawal el Saadawi
Vienna Triangle by Brenda Webster
Return to Sender by Julia Alvarez
Heads Ripe for Plucking by Mahmoud Al-Wardani
As Doha Said by Bahaa Taher
Shark Hunting in Paradise Garden by Cameron Pierce (Eraserhead Press)
The Stranger by Max Frei
Transformation Journal of Literature, Ideas and the Arts, Vol 2, No. 1
Shalom India Housing Society by Esther David
Some Things That Meant the World to Me by Joshua Mohr
Silly Little Rich Girl by Jimmy Gleacher (Casperian Books)
Brightest Moon of the Century by Christopher Meeks
Wanting by Richard Flanagan
The Heyday of the Insensitive Bastards by Robert Boswell
People of the Thunder by W Michael Gear and Kathleen O'Neal Gear
The Ballad of West Tenth Street by Marjorie Kernan
A Sandhills Ballad by Ladette Randolph
Once: Stories by Rebecca Rosenblum
Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet by Jamie Ford
Impossible Man by Michael Muhammad Knight
The Taqwacores by Michael Muhammad Knight
Home Schooling by Carol Windley
Ruins by Achy Obejas
Havana Lunar by Robert Arelland
Jamaica by Malcolm Knox
Proof of the Honey by Salwa al Neimi
Gods and Soldiers: The Penguin Anthology of Contemporary African Writing edited by Rob Spillman
Vilnius Poker by Ricardas Gavelis
Dinner with Osama by Marilyn Krysl
Posted by Jessa Crispin at 12:49 PM
January 04, 2009
Poetry
Close Calls with Nonsense: Reading New Poetry (Essays) by Stephen Burt
Sufficiency of the Actual by Kevin Stein (University of Illinois)
Classification of a Spit Stain by Ellia Ga (Ugly Duckling Press)
Sestets by Charles Wright (FSG)
The Bride Minaret by Heather Derr-Smith (Akron)
Type O Negative by Joel Barraquiet Tan (Red Hen)
The Boy Whose Hands Were Birds by Roy Seeger (Main Street Rag)
The Book of Props by Wayne Miller (Milkweed)
Archicembalo by G C Waldrep (Tupelo)
Posted by Jessa Crispin at 12:27 PM
Nonfiction
Astrobiology for Everyone: Life in Space by Lucas John Mix
The Whole Five Feet: What the Great Books Taught Me About Life, Death, and Pretty Much Everything Else by Christopher R. Beha
Bright Young People: The Lost Generation of London's Jazz Age by D J Taylor
Elsewhere, USA: How We Got from the Company Man, Family Dinners and the Affluent Society to the Home Office, Blackberry Moms, and Economic Anxiety by Dalton Conley
Enough About You: Notes Towards the New Autobiography by David Shields
Beaumarchais: A Biography by Maurice Lever
Free Market Madness: Why Human Nature is at Odds with Economics and Why It Matters by Peter A Ubel
What Every American Should Know About the Middle East by Melissa Rossi
Things I've Been Silent About: Memories by Azar Nafisi
Defiance by Nechama Tec
Johnny Cash: And the Paradox of American Identity by Leigh H. Edwards
Honeymoon in Tehran: Two Years of Love and Danger in Iran by Azadeh Moaveni
Do I Dare Disturb the Universe? From the Projects to Prep School by Charlise Lyles
Kipling Sahib: India and the Making of Rudyard Kipling by Charles Allen
Fakers: Hoaxers, Con Artists, Counterfeiters, and Other Great Pretenders by Paul Maliszewski
Searching for Cioran by Ilinca Zarifopol-Johnston
Under the Blue Flag: My Mission to Kosovo by Philip Kearney
The Presidents We Imagine: Two Centuries of White House Fictions on the Page, on the Stage, Onscreen, and Online by Jeff Smith
Bad Cop: New York's Least Likely Police Officer Tells All by Paul Bacon
The Black Girl Next Door by Jennifer Baszile
Script & Scribble: The Rise and Fall of Handwriting by Kitty Burns Florey
Posted by Jessa Crispin at 12:07 PM
Fiction
A Day and a Night and a Day by Glen Duncan
Yes, My Darling Daughter by Margaret Leroy
Deep Night by Caroline Petit
Woman with Birthmark by Hakan Nesser
The Cradle by Patrick Somerville
Woods Burner by John Pipkin
Rex by Jose Manuel Prieto
Laundry by Suzane Adam
Vanessa and Virginia by Susan Sellers
The Red Convertible: Selected and New Stories by Louise Erdrich
This is Not a Game by Walter Jon Williams
The Spy Game by Georgina Harding
Wetlands by Charlotte Roche
Dreamers of the Day by Mary Doria Russell
Drink Play Fuck by Andrew Gottlieb
Milk, Sulphate, and Alby Starvation by Martin Millar
The Earth Hums in B Flat by Mark Strachan
Genesis by Bernard Beckett
Germania by Brendan McNally
Eclipse Two: New Science Fiction and Fantasy edited by Jonathan Strahan
The Heights by Brian James
A Seat at the Table: A Novel of Forbidden Choices by Joshua Halberstam
The Well Built City Trilogy: The Beyond, The Physiognomy, Memoranda (three books) by Jeffrey Ford
Budayeen Nights by George Alec Effinger
Conscience Point by Erica Abeel
Kill Your Friends by John Niven
Entertaining Disasters by Nancy Spiller
We Never Talk About My Brother by Peter S Beagle
The Pearl Jacket and Other Stories: Flash Fiction from Contemporary China edited by Shouhua Qi
The Mystic Arts of Erasing All Signs of Death by Charlie Huston
Posted by Jessa Crispin at 11:32 AM
Graphic Novels
Against Pain by Ron Rege, Jr (Drawn and Quarterly)
Or Else: Number 5 (Drawn and Quarterly)
Ojingogo by Matthew Forsythe (Drawn and Quarterly)
Big Questions: Number 11, Sweetness and Light (Drawn and Quarterly)
Drawn and Quarterly Showcase 5
The Stuff of Life: A Graphic Guide to Genetics and DNA by Mark Schultz (FSG)
Lulu and Mitzy: Best Laid Plans by S. Eddy Bell (Slave Labor)
Black Jack: Vol 2 by Osamu Tezuka (Vertical)
The Beats: A Graphic History edited by Paul Buhle (Hill and Wang)
The War at Ellsmere by Faith Erin Hicks (Slave Labor)
Skitzy by Don Freeman (Drawn and Quarterly)
Posted by Jessa Crispin at 11:04 AM