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March 27, 2009
Fiction
Once the Shore: Stories by Paul Yoon
Children of the Waters by Carleen Brice
That Tune Clutches My Heart by Paul Headrick
Tunneling to the Center of the Earth by Kevin Wilson
Everything Hurts by Bill Scheft
The Millionaires by Inman Majors
If I Stay by Gayle Forman
American Salvage by Bonnie Jo Campbell
Laura Rider's Masterpiece by Jane Hamilton
Concord, Virginia: A Southern Town in Eleven Stories by Peter Neofotis
Night Navigation by Ginnah Howard
Nebula Awards Showcase 2009 edited by Ellen Datlow
Once on a Moonless Night by Dai Sijie
The Girl Who Played With Fire by Stieg Larsson
The House of Bilqis by Azhar Abidi
Murder in the Rue de Paradis by Cara Black
Haunting Bombay by Shilpa Agarwal
Mrs. Somebody Somebody by Tracy Winn
Cheek by Jowl by Ursula K. LeGuin
All This Town Remembers by Sean Johnston
The Song is You by Arthur Phillips
Admission by Jean Hanff Korelitz
The World in Half by Cristina Henriquez
A Fortunate Age by Joanna Smith Rakoff
Landscape in Concrete by Jakov Lind
The Time It Snowed in Puerto Rico by Sarah McCoy
Wrack and Ruin by Don Lee
The Night Counter by Alia Yunis
Lime Tree Can't Bear Orange by Amanda Smyth
Unplugging Philco by Jim Knipfel
Secret Son by Laila Lalami
Shadow and Light by Jonathan Rabb
Selling Light by Effie Gray (Great Little Reads)
The Profit by John Karter (Great Little Reads)
I Am Not Sidney Poitier by Percival Everett
Rupert: A Confession by Ilja Leonard Pfeijffer
A Reliable Wife by Robert Goolrick
Swimming by Nicola Keegan
God Says No by James Hannaham
The Convalescent by Jessica Anthony
Posted by Jessa Crispin at 07:11 PM
March 26, 2009
Poetry
Crazy Love by Pamela Uschuk (Wings Press)
A Plate of Chicken by Matthew Rohrer (Ugly Duckling)
Change in a Razor-Backed Season by Michael Debeyer (Gaspereau)
Gaspereau Gloriatur (Gaspereau)
Punish Honey by Karen Leona Anderson (Carolina Wren Press)
And Aeneas Stares into Her Helmet by Tiffany Higgins (Carolina Wren)
The Bodyfeel Lexicon by Jessica Bozek (Switchback)
Rooms and Their Airs by Jody Gladding (Milkweed)
Sight Map by Brian Teare (Uni of California)
Virgil and the Mountain Cat by David Lau (Uni of California)
Transcendental Studies by Keith Waldrop (Uni of California)
Scape by Joshua Harmon (Black Ocean)
With Deer by Aase Berg (Black Ocean)
For that Return Passage by Lisa Birman (Hollowdeck Press)
The Heart's Traffic by Ching-In Chen (Arktoi Books)
Or to Begin Again by Ann Lauterbach (Penguin)
Manatee/Humanity by Anne Waldman (Penguin)
Bestiary by Elise Paschen (Red Hen)
Double Moon by Margo Klass and Frank Soos (Boreal)
Allegheny, Monongahela by Erinn Batykefer (Red Hen)
Carta Marina by Ann Fisher-Wirth (Wings)
Awayward by Jennifer Kronovet (BOA Editions)
Struggling Times by Louis Simpson (BOA Editions)
Posted by Jessa Crispin at 05:51 PM
March 25, 2009
Nonfiction
Atheist Delusions: The Christian Revolution and Its Fashionable Enemies by David Bentley Hart
The Dream: A Memoir by Harry Bernstein
The Cracker Queen: A Memoir of a Jagged, Joyful Life by Lauretta Hannon
I'm Perfect, You're Doomed: Tales from a Jehovah's Witness Upbringing by Kyria Abrahams
Love Child: A Memoir of Family Lost and Found by Allegra Huston
The Lonely Soldier: The Private War of Women Serving in Iraq by Helen Benedict
Grimoires: A History of Magic Books by Owen Davies
Behind the Spanish Barricades: Reports from the Spanish Civil War by John Langdon- Davies
A Week at Waterloo by Magdalene de Lancey
The Age of Wonder: How the Romantic Generation Discovered the Beauty and Terror of Science by Richard Holmes
Secret Identities: The Asian American Superhero Anthology edited by Jeff Yang
The Essays of Leonard Michaels
Cat Power: A Good Woman by Elizabeth Goodman
First Comes Love, Then Comes Malaria: How a Peace Corps Poster Boy Won My Heart and a Third-World Adventure Changed My Life by Eve Brown-Waite
Summer World: A Season of Bounty by Bernd Heinrich
False Economy: A Surprising Economic History of the World by Alan Beattie
The Bolter by Frances Osborne
Kiyo's Story: A Japanese-American Family's Quest for the American Dream by Kiyo Sato
Arm the Spirit: A Woman's Journey Underground and Back by Diana Block
The First Family: Terror, Extortion, and the Birth of the American Mafia by Mike Dash
Life as We Show It: Writing on Film edited by Brian Pera and Masha Tupitsyn
Notes on Conceptualisms by Vanessa Place and Robert Fitterman (Ugly Duckling Presse)
The Garden of Invention: Luther Burbank and the Business of Breeding Plants by Jane S Smith
The Prince of Frogtown by Rick Bragg
Early Spring: An Ecologist and Her Children Wake to a Warming World by Amy Seidl
The Hornet's Sting: The Amazing Untold Story of WWII Spy Thomas Sneum
Eva's Three Penny Theatre by Andrew Steinmetz
Spar: Words in Place by Peter Sanger
The Tainted Muse: Prejudice and Presumption in Shakespeare and His Time by Robert Brustein
Dancing on Ice: A Stirring Tale of Adventure, Risk, and Reckless Folly by Jeremy Scott
How Professors Think: Inside the Curious World of Academic Judgment by Michele Lamont
The Body Broken: A Memoir by Lynne Greenberg
The Addict: One Patient, One Doctor, One Year by Michael Stein
Life in Space: Astrobiology for Everyone by Lucas John Mix
Purge: Rehab Diaries by Nicole Johns
The Class by Francois Begaudeau
Marvelous Melba: The Extraordinary Life of a Great Diva by Ann Blainey
Posted by Jessa Crispin at 03:06 PM
March 13, 2009
Fiction
The Frozen Thames by Helen Humphreys
I'm So Happy for You by Lucinda Rosenfeld
Do Not Deny Me by Jean Thompson
A Collector of Worlds: A Novel of Sir Richard Francis Burton by Iliya Troyanov
Meat Eaters and Plant Eaters by Jessica Treat
Salvation Army by Abdellah Taia
Motel Girl by Greg Sanders
The Little Stranger by Sarah Waters
The End of the Jews by Adam Mansbach
Voices of the Desert by Nelida Pinon
In the Heart of the Canyon by Elisabeth Hyde
Krapp's Last Cassette by Anne Argula
World Takes by Timmy Waldron
Life is Short but Wide by J California Cooper
Don't Cry: Stories by Mary Gaitskill
The Angel's Game by Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Rex by Jose Manuel Prieto
Show Me the Sky by Nicholas Hogg
A Survey of My Failures This Far by Gabriel Chad Boyer (Mutable)
Days I Moved Through Ordinary Sounds by WriterCorps
Dying Unfinished by Maria Espinosa
The Best of Gene Wolfe
Forgetting English by Midge Raymond
Prelude by William Coles
The Twin by Gerbrand Bakker
Glover's Mistake by Nick Laird
Big World by Mary Miller (SF/LD)
The Baptism of Billy Bean by Roger Alan Skipper
Overqualified by Joey Comeau
Last Last Chance by Fiona Maazel
An Elegy for Easterly by Petina Gappah
The Ballad of West Tenth Street by Marjorie Kernan
Wnoderful World by Javier Calvo
The Disagreement by Nick Taylor
All the Living by C E Morgan
Posted by Jessa Crispin at 02:42 PM
Poetry
To Speak, to Tell You? By Sabine Sicaud (Black Widow)
Fierce Departures: The Poetry of Dionne Brand (Laurier Poetry Series)
Forgiven Submarine by Ruxandra Cesereanu and Andrei Codrescu (Black Widow)
Bad River Road by Debra Nystrom (Sarabande)
From Dame Quickly by Jennifer Scappettone (Litmus)
The Lions by Peter Campion (Chicago)
Breakfast with Thom Gunn by Randall Mann (Chicago)
The King by Rebecca Wolff (WW Norton)
Big American Trip by Christian Peet (Shearsman)
As When, In Season by Jim Schley (Marick Press)
Hollywood and God by Robert Polito (Chicago)
Posted by Jessa Crispin at 12:15 PM
Nonfiction
The Blue Sweater: Bridging the Gap Between Rich and Poor in an Interconnected World by Jacqueline Novogratz
How Lincoln Learned to Read: Twelve Great Americans and the Educations that Made Them by Daniel Wolff
Birth Day: A Pediatrician Explores the Science, the History, and the Wonder of Childbirth by Mark Sloan, MD
So Long as Men Can Breathe: The Untold Story of Shakespeare's Sonnets by Clinton Heylin
Aereality: On the World from Above by William L Fox
We Used to Own the Bronx: Memoirs of a Former Debutante by Eve Pell
The White Guy: A Field Guide by Stephen Hunt
Something Incredibly Wonderful Happens: Frank Oppenheimer and the World He Made Up by K C Cole
Underground: My Life with SDS and the Weathermen by Mark Rudd
Quiverfull: Inside the Christian Patriarchy Movement by Kathryn Joyce
Passionate Uprisings: Iran's Sexual Revolution by Pardis Mahdavi
Bigger than Life: A Murder, a Memoir by Dinah Lenney
The Means of Reproduction: Sex, Power, and the Future of the World by Michelle Goldberg
The Summer of Hummingbirds: Love, Art and Scandal in the Intersecting Worlds of Emily Dickinson, Mark Twain, Harriet Beecher Stowe, and Martin Johnson Heade by Christopher Benfey
Singin' in the Rain: The Making of an American Masterpiece by Earl J Hess and Pratibha A Dabholkar
A Boy Named Shel: The Life and Times of Shel Silverstein by Lisa Rogak
Spiced: A Pastry Chef's True Stories of Trials by Fire, After-Hours Exploits, and What Really Goes on in the Kitchen by Dalia Jurgensen
City Kid: A Writer's Memoir of Ghetto Life and Post-Soul Success by Nelson George
Sleeping Naked is Green: How an Eco-Cynic Unplugged Her Fridge, Sold Her Car, and Found Love in 366 Days by Vanessa Farquharson
Cooking Dirty: A Story of Life, Sex, Love and Death in the Kitchen by Jason Sheehan
Love as Always, Kurt: Vonnegut as I Knew Him by Loree Rackstraw
Ethical Slut: A Practical Guide to Polyamory, Open Relationships and Other Adventures by Dossie Easton and Janet W Hardy
Notes from Underground: Zines and the Politics of Alternative Culture by Stephen Duncombe
How Rome Fell by Adrian Goldsworthy
The Far Corner: Northwestern Views on Land, Life, and Literature by John Daniel
Naming Infinity: A True Story of Religious Mysticism and Mathematical Creativity by Loren Graham and Jean-Michel Kantor
The Unlikely Disciple: A Sinner's Semester at America's Holiest University by Kevin Roose
When Skateboards Will Be Free by Said Sayrafiezadeh
Bond of Union: Building the Erie Canal and the American Empire by Gerard Koeppel
Posted by Jessa Crispin at 01:11 AM
Graphic Novels
The Photographer: Into the Afghan War Zone with Doctors Without Borders by Emmanuel Guibert
A Drifting Life by Yoshihiro Tatsumi
The Prisoner Syndrome by Lewis Trondheim
Zine Yearbook 9
Air, Vol. 1 by G Willow Wilson and MK Perker
Karma, Dharma, Pudding and Pie by Philip Appleman
The Beats: A Graphic History edited by Paul Buhle
Chicken and Cat Clean Up by Sara Varon
Make a Zine! When Words and Graphics Collide by Bill Brent and Joe Biel
Humbug by Harvey Kurtzman
George Sprott (1894-1975) by Seth
Jin and Jam No. 1
Reich, Issues 4 & 5
Windy Corner Magazine #2 edited by Austin English
The Airy Tales by Olga Volozova
Ink Weed by Chris Wright (Sparkplug Comics)
Danny Dutch by David King (Sparkplug Comics)
Posted by Jessa Crispin at 12:41 AM
March 04, 2009
Poetry
The Russian Version by Elena Fanailova (Ugly Duckling)
Can Poetry Save the Earth? A Field Guide to Nature Poems by John Felstiner (Yale)
Standing Room Only by Sarah Protzman
Fortune's Lover: A Book of Tarot Poems by Rachel Pollack (A Midsummer's Night Press)
Best Gay Poetry 2008 edited by Lawrence Schimel (A Midsummer Night's Press)
A Brief History of Time by Shaindel Beers (Salt)
Persephone in America by Alison Townsend (Southern Illinois U)
Versed by Rae Armantrout (Wesleyan)
How Beautiful the Beloved by Gregory Orr (Copper Canyon)
Mom's Canoe by Rebecca Foust (Texas Review)
The Mower by Andrew Motion (Godine)
Sunny Wednesday by Noelle Kocot (Wave)
Take It by Joshua Beckman (Wave)
Poemland by Chelsey Winnis (Wave)
Posted by Jessa Crispin at 03:22 PM
Fiction
The Unit by Gail Holmqvist
The Typewriter Satyr by Dwight Allen
Sadomasochism for Accountants by Rosy Barnes
My Goat Ate Its Own Legs by Alex Burrett
Pain Killers by Jerry Stahl
Palos Verdes Blue by John Shannon
The Book of Dahlia by Elisa Albert
In Love with Jerry Kosinski by Agate Nesaule
Book of Clouds by Chloe Aridjis
Cyberabad Days by Ian McDonald
Huge by James W Fuerst
Exiles in the Garden by Ward Just
The German Woman by Paul Griner
The Post-War Dream by Mitch Cullin
Savage by Jacques Jouet
Hoppla! 1 2 3 by Gerard Gavarry
American Short Fiction Vol 12 Issue 43
Please Step Back by Ben Greenman
Everything Matters! by Ron Currie Jr
Short Letter, Long Farewell by Peter Handke
Crossing the Hudson by Peter Stephan Jungk
The Amateur Spy by Dan Fesperman
The Other City by Michal Ajvaz
An Expensive Education by Nick McDonell
The National Virginity Pledge by Barry Graham
Pandora in the Congo by Albert Sanchez Pinol
Azalea: Journal of Korean Literature and Culture, Vol 2
The Glister by John Burnside
Everything Ravaged, Everything Burned by Wells Tower
The Conqueror by Jan Kjaerstad
The Woman Who Wouldn't by Gene Wilder
Five Finger Fiction by Brooks Sigler
Normance by Celine
Act of Will by AJ Hartley
Transit by Bernard Share
A Monster's Notes by Laurie Sheck
Heroic Measures by Jill Ciment
The Act of Love by Howard Jacobson
Buying Cigarettes for the Dog by Stuart Ross
The Game of Opposites by Norman Lebrecht
The Wind in the Willows: The Annotated Edition by Kenneth Grahame
Carpentaria by Alexis Wright
Back to the Coast by Saskia Noort
Posted by Jessa Crispin at 02:09 PM
March 03, 2009
Nonfiction
Brief Nudity by Thomas Farber
Freeing Tibet: 50 Years of Struggle, Resilience, and Hope by John B. Roberts II and Elizabeth Roberts
We-Think: Mass Innovation, Not Mass Production by Charles Leadbeater
The Spartacus War by Barry Strauss
Gimme Shelter: Ugly Houses, Cruddy Neighborhoods, Fast-Talking Brokers, and Toxic Mortgages: My Three Years Searching for the American Dream by Mary Elizabeth Williams
Writing the Future of Black America by Daniel Grassian
Healing Spaces: The Science of Place and Well-Being by Esther Sternberg, MD
Unbuttoned: Women Open Up About the Pleasures, Pains, and Politics of Breastfeeding edited by Maureen Connolly
The Scavengers' Manifesto by Anneli Rufus
Fordlandia: The Rise and Fall of Henry Ford's Forgotten Jungle City by Greg Grandin
Flyaway: How a Wild Bird Rehabber Sought Adventure and Found Her Wings by Suzie Gilbert
Good Book: The Bizarre, Hilarious, Disturbing, Marvelous, and Inspiring Things I Learned When I Read Every Single Word of the Bible by David Plotz
A Day in the Life: One Family, the Beautiful People, and the End of the 60s by Robert Greenfield
Young Woman and the Sea: Hw Trudy Ederle Conquered the English Channel and Inspired the World by Glenn Stout
A Pocket History of Sex in the Twentieth Century by Jane Vandenburgh
The Antelope's Strategy: Living in Rwanda After the Genocide by Jean Hatzfeld
Fugitive Denim: A Moving Story of People and Pants in the Borderless World of Global Trade by Rachel Louise Snyder
Adam's Tongue: How Humans Made Language, How Language Made Humans by Derek Bickerton
Perfecting Sound Forever: An Aural History of Recorded Music by Greg Milner
A Pure Drop: The Life of Jeff Buckley by Jeff Apter
Matthew's Enigma: A Father's Portrait of His Autistic Son by Matei Calinescu
Lost in the Meritocracy: The Undereducation of an Overachiever by Walter Kirn
With Dance Shoes in Siberian Snow by Sandra Kalniete
The Last Supper: A Summer in Italy by Rachel Cusk
Gypsy: The Art of the Tease by Rachel Shteir
On the Origin of Stories: Evolution, Cognition, and Fiction by Brian Boyd
Ad Nauseam: A Survivor's Guide to American Consumer Culture edited by Carrie McLaren and Jason Torchinsky
Old Friend from Far Away by Natalie Goldberg
The Secret Pulse of Time: Making Sense of Life's Scarcest Commodity by Stefan Klein
Triangular Road: A Memoir by Paule Marshall
Unbelievable: Investigations into Ghosts, Poltergeists, Telepathy, and Other Unseen Phenomena, from the Duke Parapsychology Laboratory by Stacy Horn
Posted by Jessa Crispin at 06:43 PM