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February 18, 2010
Fiction
Bartleby, the Sportscaster by Ted Pelton (Subito, 2010)
Bone Worship by Elizabeth Eslami (Pegasus, 1-10)
Adam Gould by Julia O'Faolain (Telegram, 4-10)
Further Adventures in the Restless Universe by Dawn Raffel (Dzanc, 3-10)
Currency by Zoe Zolbrod (Dzanc, 5-10)
The More I Owe You by Michael Sledge (Counterpoint, 6-10)
White Masks by Elias Khoury (Archipelago, 4-10)
Cities of Night by Philip Nutman (Chizine, 6-10)
The Room and the Chair by Lorraine Adams (Knopf, 2-10)
By Accident by Susan Kelly (Pegasus, 5-10)
The Singer's Gun by Emily St. John Mandel (Unbridled, 5-10)
Everything Lovely, Effortless, Safe by Jenny Hollowell (Holt, 6-10)
The Taste of Penny by Jeff Parker (Dzanc, 5-10)
Posted by Michael Schaub at 12:08 AM
February 17, 2010
Nonfiction
The Fine Wisdom and Perfect Teachings of the Kings of Rock and Roll by Mark Edmundson (Harper, 5-10)
Valley of Death: The Tragedy at Dien Bien Phu That Led America into the Vietnam War by Ted Morgan (Random House, 2-10)
Jenniemae & James: A Memoir in Black & White by Brooke Newman (Harmony, 4-10)
The Journal Keeper by Phyllis Theroux (Atlantic Monthly, 3-10)
Letters to Jackie: Condolences from a Grieving Nation by Ellen Fitzpatrick (Ecco, 3-10)
Ripe: The Search for the Perfect Tomato by Arthur Allen (Counterpoint, 3-10)
Posted by Michael Schaub at 11:57 PM
Poetry
(nevertheless enjoyment by Elizabeth Bryant (Quale, 3-10)
The Intricated Soul by Sherod Santos (Norton, 3-10)
Venison by Thorpe Moeckel (Etruscan, 5-10)
Swerve by Bruce Cohen (Black Lawrence, 2010)
Mean Free Path by Ben Lerner (Copper Canyon, 5-10)
The Living Fire by Edward Hirsch (Knopf, 3-10)
Tocqueville by Khaled Mattawa (New Issues, 4-10)
Entrepot by Mark McMorris (Coffee House, 2-10)
Find the Girl by Lightsey Darst (Coffee House, 4-10)
Shoulder Season by Ange Mlinko (Coffee House, 4-10)
darkacre by Greg Hewett (Coffee House, 4-10)
Posted by Michael Schaub at 11:53 PM
February 04, 2010
Fiction
Truth by Peter Temple (FSG, 5-10)
The Wedding in Auschwitz by Erich Hackl (Serpent's Tail, 4-10)
The Hand That First Held Mine by Maggie O'Farrell (HMH, 4-10)
I Curse the River of Time by Per Petterson (Graywolf, 8-10)
Even the Dogs by Jon McGregor (Bloomsbury, 3-10)
This Body of Death by Elizabeth George (Harper, 5-10)
The Wife's Tale by Lori Lansens (Little, Brown, 2-10)
Georg Letham: Physician and Murderer by Ernst Weiss (Archipelago, 1-10)
Neighborhood Watch by Cammie McGovern (Viking, 6-10)
In a Dark Wood by Marcel Moring (Harper, 2-10)
To Mervas by Elisabeth Rynell (Archipelago, 5-10)
The Three Weissmanns of Westport by Cathleen Schine (FSG, 2-10)
Delta Blues edited by Carolyn Haines (Tyrus, 5-10)
Thunder Beach by Michael Lister (Tyrus, 5-10)
The Frozen Rabbi by Steve Stern (Algonquin, 5-10)
Captivity by Deborah Noyes (Unbridled, 6-10)
Mornings in Jenin by Susan Abulhawa (Bloomsbury, 2-10)
Savage Lands by Clare Clark (HMH, 2-10)
Agaat by Marlene van Niekerk (Tin House, 5-10)
Posted by Michael Schaub at 08:44 PM
Nonfiction
The Devil and Mr. Casement: One Man's Battle for Human Rights in South America's Heart of Darkness by Jordan Goodman (FSG, 2-10)
The New Yorker Theater and Other Scenes from a Life at the Movies by Toby Talbot (Columbia UP, 11-09)
Culture Is Our Weapon: Making Music and Changing Lives in Rio de Janeiro by Patrick Neate and Damian Platt (Penguin, 3-10)
Video Slut by Sharon Oreck (Faber and Faber, 5-10)
My Times in Black and White: Race and Power at The New York Times by Gerald M. Boyd (Lawrence Hill, 2-10)
Not Quite Paradise: An American Sojourn in Sri Lanka by Adele Barker (Beacon, 1-10)
Blows to the Head: How Boxing Changed My Mind by Binnie Klein (SUNY P, 1-10)
Between Terror and Tourism: An Overland Journey Across North Africa (Counterpoint, 3-10)
The Art of the Sonnet by Stephen Burt and David Mikics (Harvard UP, 4-10)
"Dearest Georg": Love, Literature, and Power in Dark Times: The Letters of Elias, Veza, and Georges Canetti, 1933-1948 edited by Karen Lauer and Kristian Wachinger (Other, 2-10)
52 Loaves: One Man's Relentless Pursuit of Truth, Meaning, and a Perfect Crust by William Alexander (Algonquin, 5-10)
Where Are We Going, Daddy?: Life with Two Boys Unlike Any Others by Jean-Louis Fournier (Other, 5-10)
Posted by Michael Schaub at 08:20 PM
Poetry
Clops by Devin King (Green Lantern, 2009)
The Imperfect by George Tysh (United Artists, 2010)
Selected Poems of Frederick Goddard Tuckerman edited by Ben Mazer (Harvard UP, 4-10)
If There Is Something to Desire: 100 Poems by Vera Pavlova (Knopf, 1-10)
The Atlantic Tunnel: Selected Poems by Paul Farley (Faber and Faber, 5-10)
Posted by Michael Schaub at 07:50 PM