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May 19, 2009
Nonfiction
Girl Undressed: On Stripping in New York City by Ruth Fowler
Anatomy of a Beast: Obsession and Myth on the Trail of Bigfoot by Michael McLeod
Now the Hell Will Start: One Soldier's Flight from the Greatest Manhunt of WWII by Brendan I Koerner
Pre-Gay L.A.: A Social History of the Movement for Homosexual Rights by C Todd White
Will Work for Drugs by Lydia Lunch
Writing Places: The Life Journey of a Writer and Teacher by William Zinsser
Lost Boy by Brent W. Jeffs
7 Deadly Sins: A Very Partial List by Aviad Kleinberg
The Venus Fixers: The Untold Story of the Allied Soldiers Who Saved Italy's Art During WWII by Ilaria Dagnini Brey
Island of Shame: The Secret History of the US Military Base on Diego Garcia by David Vine
Knossos and the Prophets of Modernism by Cathy Gere
Israel is Real: An Obsessive Quest to Understand the Jewish Nation and Its History by Rich Cohen
Shop Class as Soulcraft: An Inquiry into the Value of Work by Matthew B Crawford
And Then There's This: How Stories Live and Die in Viral Culture by Bill Wasik
Weird Science and Bizarre Beliefs: Mysterious Creatures, Lost Worlds and Amazing Inventions by Dr Gregory L Reece
Wildflower: An Extraordinary Life and Untimely Death in Africa by Mark Seal
The Year of No Money in Tokyo by Wayne Lionel Aponte
Civil War Wives: The Lives and Times of Angelina Grimke Weld, Varina Howell Davis, and Julia Dent Grant by Carol Berkin
Making an Elephant: Writing from Within by Graham Swift
The Resistance: The French Fight Against the Nazis by Matthew Cobb
Bangkok Days: A Sojourn in the Capital of Pleasure by Lawrence Osborne
The End of Empire: Attila the Hun and the Fall of Rome by Christopher Kelly
Longitude by Wire: Finding North America by Richard Stachurski
We Two: Victoria and Albert: Rulers, Partners, Rivals by Gillian Gill
The Beautiful Tree: A Personal Journey into How the World's Poorest People are Educating Themselves by James Tooley
A Brain Wider than the Sky: A Migraine Diary by Andrew Levy
The Life of Mary Queen of Scots: An Accidental Tragedy by Roderick Graham
The Journals of Grace Hartigan 1951-1955
Elizabeth Cady Stanton: An American Life by Lori D Ginzberg
Why Does E=MC2? And Why Should We Care by Brian Cox and Jeff Forshaw
The Writer's Notebook: Craft Essays from Tin House
The Odd Man Karakozov: Imperial Russia, Modernity, and the Birth of Terrorism by Claudia Verhoeven
Zhivago's Children: The Last Russian Intelligentsia by Vladislav Zubok
Posted by Jessa Crispin at 02:07 PM
May 16, 2009
Poetry
Allegheny, Monongahela by Erinn Batykefer (Red Hen)
Spring Wanderings by JH Martin (Rivers & Lakes)
Stranger by Laura Sims (Fence)
Jane Again by Wayne Clifford (Biblioasis)
Open Wide a Wilderness: Canadian Nature Poems edited by Nancy Holmes (Wilfrid Laurier University Press)
Horse Dance Underwater by Helena Mesa (Cleveland State University)
Neighbor by Rachel Levitsky (Ugly Duckling)
Mobility of Light by Nicole Brossard (Wilfrid Laurier)
The Gingko Light by Arthur Sze (Copper Canyon)
Collected Poems of Ciaran Carson (Wake Forest)
Painting Rain by Paula Meehan (Wake Forest)
The Brother Swimming Beneath Me by Brent Goodman (Black Lawrence)
Orpheus on the Red Line by Theodore Deppe (Tupelo)
Paris Spleen by Charles Baudelaire (Wesleyan)
Posted by Jessa Crispin at 07:14 PM
May 15, 2009
Fiction
That Mad Ache by Francoise Sagan
Smut, Vol. 2 by the editors of Nerve.com
The Stalin Epigram by Robert Littell
No One You Know by Michelle Richmond
A Trace of Smoke by Rebecca Cantrell
The Solitude of Prime Numbers by Paolo Giordano
Master of the Eclipse by Etel Adnan
Mathilda Savitch by Victor Lodato
Advanced Elvis Course by C A Conrad
Nog by Rudolph Wurlitzer
Blame by Michelle Huneven
Shanghai Girls by Lisa See
TOC by Steve Tomsaula
Ghosts and Lightning by Trevor Byrne
Going Away Shoes by Jill McCorkle
Weddings of the Times: A Parody by Kasper Hauser
The Ninth by Ferenc Barnas
The Public Prosecutor by Jeff Geeraerts (Bitter Lemon)
Red to Black by Alex Dryden
An Off Year by Claire Zulkey
Gourmet Rhapsody by Muriel Barbery
The Father and the Foreigner by Giancarlo de Cataldo
Valeria's Last Stand by Marc Fitten
The Island at the End of the World by Sam Taylor
Love Begins in Winter by Simon van Booy
Big Machine by Victor LaValle
Normal People Don't Live Like This by Dylan Landis
Love and Money by Michael M. Thomas
Who Is Charlie Conti? by Claus von Bohlen
The English Stories by Cynthia Flood
Kahn and Engelmann by Hans Eichner
Gringolandia by Lyn Miller Lachmann
All That Work and Still No Boys by Kathryn Ma
How to Leave Hialeah by Jennine Capo Crucet
The Salt Smugglers by Gerard De Nerval
The Imago Sequence and Other Stories by Laird Barron
Ugly Man: Stories by Dennis Cooper
Some Dream for Fools by Faiza Guene
A Long, Long Time Ago and Essentially True by Brgid Pasulka
Been Here a Thousand Years by Mariolina Venezia
The Walking People by Mary Beth Keane
The Servants' Quarters by Lynn Freed
Drift: Stories by Victoria Patterson
Cockroach by Rawi Hage
The Cave Man by Xiaoda Xiao
The Show That Smells by Derek McCormack
The Best Dancer by Christoph Keller
Anonymous Celebrity by Ignacio de Loyola Brandao
The Prayer Room by Shanthi Sekaran
Come Sunday by Isla Morley
Posted by Jessa Crispin at 03:40 PM
May 14, 2009
Graphic Novels
A Mess of Everything by Miss Lasko-Gross (Fantagraphics)
The Color of Earth by Kim Dong Hwa (First Second)
Cecil and Jordan in New York by Gabrielle Bell (Drawn and Quarterly)
The Bun Field by Amanda Vahamaki (Drawn and Quarterly)
Dark Entries by Ian Rankin (Vertigo)
Strongman by Charles Soule and Allen Gladfelter (Slave Labor)
Filthy Rich by Brian Azzarello (Vertigo)
Bayou by Jeremy Love (Zuda)
You'll Never Know by C Tyler (Fantagraphics)
The Photographer by Guibert, Lefevre, and Lemercier (First Second)
Posted by Jessa Crispin at 10:32 PM
May 01, 2009
Poetry
The Russian Version by Elena Fanailova (Ugly Duckling)
From the Fishouse: An Anthology of Poems that Sing, Rhyme, Resound, Syncopate, Alliterate and Just Plain Sound Great edited by Camille T Dungy (Persea)
The Dangerous Shirt by Alberto Rios (Copper Canyon)
Memory Glyphs by Radu Andriescu, Iustin Panta, and Cristian Popescu (Twisted Spoon)
Change in a Razor-Backed Season by Michael Debeyer (Gaspereau)
I, the Worst of All by Estela Lamat (BlazeVox)
And by Michael Blumenthal (BOA)
Portrait and Dream by Bill Berkson (Coffee House)
The Spoils by Ted Mathys (Coffee House)
Rough Cradle by Betsy Sholl (Alice James)
Stonepicker and the Book of Mirrors by Frieda Hughes (Harper Perennial)
The Beginning of the Fields by Angela Shaw (Tupelo)
Fire Pond by Jessica Garratt (University of Utah)
Coal Mountain Elementary by Mark Nowak (Coffee House)
Posted by Jessa Crispin at 08:40 PM