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February 20, 2009
Fiction
Through Black Spruce by Joseph Boyden
The Final Martyrs by Shusaku Endo
Marielitos, Balseros, and Other Exiles by Cecilia Rodriguez Milanes
I Never Promised You a Rose Garden by Joanne Greenberg
You Are Here by Donald Breckenridge
Far North by Marcel Theroux
When I Forgot by Elina Hirvonen
The Irish Wine Trilogy by Dick Wimmer
Spoiled: Stories by Caitlin Macy
Angels of Destruction by Keith Donohue
The Four Corners of the Sky by Michael Malone
The Year That Follows by Scott Lasser
End of the Century by Chris Roberson
The Writing on My Forehead by Nafisa Haji
Laish by Aharon Appelfeld
Trouble by Kate Christensen
Hot House Flower and the 9 Plants of Desire by Margot Berwin
A Quiet Flame by Philip Kerr
Mouroir by Breyten Breytenbach
A Public Space: Issue 7
The Procession of Mollusks by Eric E Olson (Astrophil Press)
The Feline Plague by Maja Novak
Nothing But a Smile by Steve Amick
The Devil's Paintbrush by Jake Arnott (Sceptre)
One DOA One on the Way by Mary Robison
Captive Audience by Dave Reidy
Killer Tease by Danny Hogan
Gas City by Loren D. Estleman
Let the Great World Spin by Colum McCann
Flying by Eric Kraft
Skeleton Justice by Dr Michael Baden and Linda Kenney Baden
Sunnyside by Glen David Gold
Chaos by Escober
The Disappearance of Irene Dos Santos by Margaret Mascarenhas
Lowboy by John Wray
The Walls of the Universe by Paul Melko
Love and Obstacles by Aleksandar Hemon
Abraham's Bay and Other Stories by Jack Greer
A Meaningful Life by LJ Davis
Callisto by Torsten Krol
Open Arms by Marina Endicott
Good to a Fault by Martha Endicott
The Generosity of Women by Courtney Eldridge
Ugly Man: Stories by Dennis Cooper
Amberville by Tim Davys
Loser's Town by Daniel Depp
Resistance by Owen Sheers
How to Hold a Woman by Billy Lombardo
Tea Time for the Traditionally Built by Alexander McCall Smith
The Anatomy of Wings by Karen Foxlee
The Local News by Miriam Gershow
Posted by Jessa Crispin at 08:27 PM
Poetry
I Go to Some Hollow by Amina Cain (Les Figues)
Star in the Eye by James Shea (Fence Books)
Torched Verse Ends by Steven D Schroeder (BlazeVOX)
Pluriverse: New and Selected Poems by Ernesto Cardenal (New Directions)
American Hybrid: A Norton Anthology of New Poetry edited by Cole Swensen and David St. John (WW Norton)
Continuum by Nina Cassian (WW Norton)
Petals of Zero, Petals of One by Andrew Zawacki (Talisman House)
Joseph Donahue by Terra Lucida (Talisman House)
Sleepers' Republic by David Gruber (Astrophil Press)
The Mind-Body Problem by Katha Pollitt (Random House)
Before Saying Any of the Great Words by David Huerta (Copper Canyon Press)
World's End by Pablo Neruda (Copper Canyon)
Blue Collar Poet by G Emil Reutter (Stone Garden)
Quiver by Susan B A Somers-Willett (VQR)
If Birds Gather Your Hair for Nesting by Anna Journey (VQR)
Free Union by John Casteen (VQR)
Posted by Jessa Crispin at 12:13 PM
Nonfiction
The Posthuman Dada Guide: Tzara and Lenin Play Chess by Andrei Codrescu
The House of Wittgenstein: A Family at War by Alexander Waugh
The Mirror Effect: How Celebrity Narcissism is Seducing America by Drew Pinsky
A Brief History of the Future: A Brave and Controversial Look at the 21st Century by Jacques Attali
My Happiness Bears No Relation to Happiness: A Poet's Life in the Palestinian Century by Adina Hoffman
Equal: Women Reshape American Law by Fred Strebeigh
Just Like Family: Inside the Lives of Nannies, the Parents They Work for, and the Children They Love by Tasha Blaine
Are We There Yet? Travels with My Frontline Family by Rosie Whitehouse
To the End of Hell: One Woman's Struggle to Survive Cambodia's Khmer Rouge by Denise Affonco
Flannery: A Life of Flannery O'Connor Brad Gooch
China Underground by Zachary Mexico
Daughters of Aquarius: Women of Sixties Counterculture by Gretchen Lemke-Santangelo
The Accountant's Story: Inside the Violent World of the Medellin Cartel as told by Roberto Escobar
I Love a Man in Uniform: A Memoir of Love, War, and Other Battles by Lily Burana
Fresh: A Perishable History by Susanne Freidberg
Dillinger's Wild Ride: The Year that Made America's Public Enemy Number One by Elliott J Gorn
Stealing Lincoln's Body by Thomas J Craughwell
Wicked Plants: A Book of Botanical Atrocities by Amy Stewart
An Uncrowded Place: The Delights and Dilemmas of Life Up North and a Young Man's Search for Home by Bob Butz
The Challenge for Africa by Wangari Maathai
I Wouldn't Start From Here: The 21st Century and Where It All Went Wrong by Andrew Mueller
Lost in the Jungle: A Harrowing Story of Survival by Yossi Ghinsberg
Bad Mother: A Chronicle of Maternal Crimes, Minor Calamities, and Occasional Moments of Grace by Ayelet Waldman
The East, the West, and Sex: A History of Erotic Encounters by Richard Bernstein
The Medea Hypothesis: Is Life on Earth Ultimately Self-Destructive? by Peter Ward
What Color is the Sacred? by Michael Taussig
More than Just Race: Being Black and Poor in the Inner City by William Julius Wilson
The Foie Gras Wars: How a 5,000 Year Old Delicacy Inspired the World's Fiercest Food Fight by Mark Caro
Capital Punishment: An Indictment by a Death-Row Survivor by Billy Wayne Sinclair and Jodie Sinclair
The Whole Death Catalogue: A Lively Guide to the Bitter End by Harold Schechter
Posted by Jessa Crispin at 11:35 AM
February 11, 2009
Poetry
Nobody's Mother by Leslea Newman (Orchard House)
A Toast in the House of Friends by Akilah Oliver (Coffee House)
The Grimoire of Grimalkin by Sascha Aurora Akhtar (Salt)
Strip by Angela Readman (Salt)
Flowering of Flint by Peter Abbs (Salt)
Exquisite Heats by Cherryl Floyd Miller (Salt)
A Fold in the Map by Isobel Dixon (Salt)
Down to Earth by John Wilkinson (Salt)
Andraste's Hair by Eleanor Rees (Salt)
Traveling with the Primates by Kathryn Rantala (Ravenna)
Collected Poems by CP Cavafy (Knopf)
to be hung from the ceiling by strings of varying length by Rick Reid (Black Goat/Akashic)
The End of the West by Michael Dickman (Copper Canyon)
Kenmore Poem Unlimited by Geoffrey Gatza (Goss 183)
Housecat Kung Fu: Strange Poems for Wild Children by Geoffrey Gatza (Meritage Press)
Scandalabra by Derrick C Brown (Write Bloody)
Posted by Jessa Crispin at 12:21 PM
February 09, 2009
Nonfiction
Telling Lies: Clues to Deceit in the Marketplace, Politics, and Marriage by Paul Ekman
The Sisters Antipodes: A Memoir by Jane Alison
A Step from Death: A Memoir by Larry Woiwode
Losing My Religion: How I Lost My Faith Reporting on Religion in America -- and Found Unexpected Peace by William Lobdell
China Witness: Voices from a Silent Generation by Xinran
Notes from No Man's Land: American Essays by Eula Biss
Poe: A Life Cut Short by Peter Ackroyd
Spring Forward: The Annual Madness of Daylight Saving Time by Michael Downing
The Bloody White Baron: The Extraordinary Story of the Russian Nobleman Who Became the Last Khan of Mongolia by James Palmer
Bangkok Days: A Sojourn in the Capital of Pleasure by Lawrence Osborne
Hunter S. Thompson: An Insider's View of Deranged, Depraved, Drugged Out Brilliance by Hunter S. Thompson
Mythym: Compiled and Edited by Trinie Dalton
Darwin's Garden: Down Huose and the Origin of Species by Michael Boulter
Down at the Docks by Rory Nugent
The African American Experience: Black History and Culture through Speeches, Letters, Editorials, Poems, Songs, and Stories edited by Kai Wright
Reason, Faith, and Revolution: Reflections on the God Debate by Terry Eagleton
The Atmosphere of Heaven: The Unnatural Experiments of Dr Beddoes and His Sons of Genius by Mike Jay
Habits of Whiteness: A Pragmatist Reconstruction by Terrance MacMullan
Carnal Knowledge: Baxter's Concise Encyclopedia of Modern Sex by John Baxter
To Tell the Truth Freely: The Life of Ida B Wells by Mia Bay
False Economy: A Surprising Economic History of the World by Alan Beattie
Byron in Love: A Short, Daring Life by Edna O'Brien
Bittersweet: Lessons from My Mother's Kitchen by Matt McAllester
Coop: A Year of Poultry, Pigs, and Parenting by Michael Perry
Listening Below the Noise: A Meditation on the Practice of Silence by Anne D. LeClaire
Evolution: The First Four Billion Years edited by Michael Ruse and Joseph Travis
Swallow the Ocean by Laura M Flynn
My Little Red Book by Rachel Kauder Nalebuff
The Lonely American: Drifting Apart in the 21st Century by Jacqueline Olds and Richard Schwartz
Righteous Pork Chop: Finding a Life and Good Food Beyond Factory Farms by Nicolette Hahn Niman
Street Without a Name: Childhood and Other Misadventures in Bulgaria by Kapka Kassabova
Mrs. Lincoln by Catherine Clinton
Posted by Jessa Crispin at 08:38 PM
Fiction
The Legend of Sander Grant by Marc Phillips
The Jump Artist by Austin Ratner
A Man of No Moon by Jenny McPhee
The Bird Room by Chris Killen
The Earth Hums in B Flat by Mari Strachan
Shadow by Karin Alvtegen
Candy in Action by Matthue Roth
Shame in the Blood by Tetsu Miura
Andean Express by Juan de Recacoechea
Death in Spring by Merce Rodoreda
The Mighty Angel by Jerzy Pilch
Stone's Fall by Iain Pears
Lucky Everyday by Bapsy Jain
What We Were Doing and Where We Were Going by Damion Searls
The Holy City by Patrick McCabe
The Forever War by Joe Haldeman
A4 Avery: An Anthology of New Fiction
A Madness of Angels, or, the Resurrection of Matthew Swift by Kate Griffin
Monster by A Lee Martinez
Love Will Tear Us Apart by Sarah Rainone
American Rust by Philipp Meyer
First Execution by Domenico Starnone
The Rose Variations by Marisha Chamberlain
Landscape with Fragmented Figures by Jeff Vande Zande
The Book of the Unknown: Tales of the 36 by Jonathon Keats
The Pisstown Chaos by David Ohle
Berlin by Michael Mirolla
Last Night in Montreal by Emily St. John Mandel
Private Midnight by Kris Saknussemm
The Language of Bees by Laurie R King
Broken Things by Padrika Tarrant
This is Not the Way We Came In by Daryl Scroggins
The PEN/O Henry Prize Stories 2009 edited by Laura Furman
The Wilderness by Samantha Harvey
Degenerescence by James Chapman
Matala by Craig Holden
Nikolski by Nicolas Dickner
A Girl's Guide to Modern European Philosophy by Charlotte Greig
Apologize, Apologize! by Elizabeth Kelly
Asta in the Wings by Jan Elizabeth Watson
Beaufort by Rn Leshem
The Expeditions by Karl Iagnemma
The Samaritan's Secret by Matt Beynon Rees
Black Noir: Mystery, Crime, and Suspense Fiction by African-American Writers edited by Otto Penzler
The Accordionist's Son by Bernardo Atxaga
Gringolandia by Lyn Miller-Lachmann
April and Oliver by Tess Callahan
Hater by David Moody
Posted by Jessa Crispin at 07:46 PM
February 08, 2009
Graphic Novels
The Eternal Smile by Gene Luen Yang and Derek Kirk Kim (First Second)
Black Jack Vol 3 by Osamu Tezuka (Vertical)
Why I Killed Peter by Alfred and Olivier Ka (NBM Comics Lit)
Nemi Vol 2 by Lise Myhre (Titan Books)
Adventures in Cartooning by the Center for Cartoon Studies (First Second)
Miss Don't Touch Me by Hubert and Kerascoet (NBM Comics Lit)
The Nobody by Jeff Lemire (Vertigo)
Buddha for Beginners by Stephen T Asma (Hampton Roads)
Rasl: The Drift by Jeff Smith (Cartoon Books)
I Saw You: Comics Inspired by Missed Connections edited by Julia Wertz (Three Rivers Press)
Posted by Jessa Crispin at 01:41 PM