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January 14, 2010
Poetry
Wait by C. K. Williams (FSG, 5-4-10)
Moving Blanket by Kostas Anagnopoulos (Ugly Duckling Presse, 2-10)
g-point almanac: passyunk lost by Kevin Carrone (Ugly Duckling Presse, 2-10)
Look Back, Look Ahead by Srecko Kosovel (Ugly Duckling Presse, 3-10)
Rain by Don Paterson (FSG, 4-1-10)
Petals of Zero Petals of One by Andrew Zawacki (Talisman House, 2009)
When You Say One Thing but Mean Your Mother by Melissa Broder (Ampersand, 2009)
On Speaking Terms by Connie Wanek (Copper Canyon, 2-10)
Posted by Jessa Crispin at 11:56 AM
Nonfiction
Settled in the Wild: Notes from the Edge of Town by Susan Hand Shetterly (Algonquin, 1-26-10)
Priceless: The Myth of Fair Value (and How to Take Advantage of It) by William Poundstone (FSG, 1-12-10)
Water: The Epic Struggle for Wealth, Power, and Civilization by Steven Solomon (Harper, 1-5-10)
Post Black: How a New Generation Is Redefining African American Identity by Ytasha Womack (Lawrence Hill, 1-10)
We Ain't What We Ought to Be: The Black Freedom Struggle from Emancipation to Obama by Stephen Tuck (Harvard UP, 1-25-10)
The Screwball Asses by Guy Hocquenhem (MIT, 1-31-10)
The Bars of Atlantis: Selected Essays by Durs Grunbein (FSG, 4-20-10)
Natural Experiments of History edited by Jared Diamond and James A. Robinson (Harvard UP, 1-15-10)
Lives of the Trees: An Uncommon History by Diana Wells (Algonquin, 1-19-10)
Treatise on Elegant Living by Honore de Balzac (Wakefield, 3-10)
Americans in Paris: Life & Death under Nazi Occupation (Penguin, 1-11-10)
Naked City: The Death and Life of Authentic Urban Places (Oxford UP, 12-17-09)
Lake Views: This World and the Universe (Harvard UP, 1-10)
Hoboes: Bindlestiffs, Fruit Tramps, and the Harvesting of the West by Mark Wyman (FSG, 5-4-10)
Harry Smith: The Avant-Garde in the American Vernacular (Getty, 1-5-10)
Young Romantics: The Tangled Lives of English Poetry's Greatest Generation by Daisy Hay (FSG, 5-4-10)
Tocqueville's Discovery of America by Leo Damrosch (FSG, 4-20-10)
Empires and Barbarians: The Fall of Rome and the Birth of Modern Europe by Peter Heather (Oxford University Press, 3-10)
Posted by Jessa Crispin at 11:45 AM
Fiction
Currency by Zoe Zolbrod (OV, 6-15-10)
A Jew Must Die by Jacques Chessex (Bitter Lemon, 4-10)
The Brightest Star in the Sky by Marian Keyes (Viking, 1-25-10)
Pinion by Jay Lake (Tor, 4-10)
The Patience Stone by Atiq Rahimi (Other P, 1-19-10)
The End of the Circle: Stories by Walter Cummins (Egress, 1-12-10)
Your Presence Is Requested at Suvanto by Maile Chapman (Graywolf, 4-10)
Further Adventures in the Restless Universe: Stories by Dawn Raffel (Dzanc, 3-16-10)
Other Resort Cities: Stories by Tod Goldberg (Other Voices, 10-27-09)
Fascia by Ashley Donielle Murray (Green Lantern, 11-09)
The Farmer's Daughter: Novellas by Jim Harrison (Grove, 1-12-10)
A Time for Everything by Karl O. Knausgaard (Archipelago, 12-1-09)
The Insurgent by Noah Cicero (PDF review copy) (BLATT, 2-10)
Posted by Jessa Crispin at 11:35 AM