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March 22, 2010
Fiction
The Ghost of Milagro Creek by Melanie Sumner (Shannon Ravenel, 7-10)
As If We Were Prey by Michael Delp (Wayne State UP, 3-10)
Into the Interior by Michelle Cliff (U of Minnesota P, 6-10)
The House on Salt Hay Road by Carin Clevidence (FSG, 6-10)
The Queen's Lover by Vanora Bennett (Norton, 3-10)
Matterhorn by Karl Marlantes (Atlantic, 4-10)
Katja from the Punk Band by Simon Logan (Chizine, 4-10)
The Transformation of Bartholomew Fortuno by Ellen Bryson (Holt, 7-10)
Double Happiness by Mary-Beth Hughes (Black Cat, 6-10)
The Mapping of Love and Death by Jacqueline Winspear (Harper, 4-10)
The Doctor and the Diva by Adrienne McDonnell (Viking, 8-10)
This Must Be the Place by Kate Racculia (Holt, 7-10)
This Other Eden by Michael Hemmingson (Dybbuk, 5-10)
Drowning Tucson by Aaron Michael Morales (Coffee House, 5-10)
I Hotel by Karen Tei Yamashita (Coffee House, 5-10)
The Escape by Adam Thirlwell (FSG, 4-10)
Little Green by Loretta Stinson (Hawthorne, 6-10)
Lies of the Heart by Michelle Boyajian (Viking, 4-10)
Late Rain by Lynn Kostoff (Tyrus, 7-10)
Stein, Stoned by Hal Ackerman (Tyrus, 7-10)
Day One by Bill Cameron (Tyrus, 6-10)
Case Closed by Patrik Ourednik (Dalkey Archive, 6-10)
The Tale of Halcyon Crane by Wendy Webb (Holt, 4-10)
31 Bond Street by Ellen Horan (Harper, 4-10)
Alone with You by Marisa Silver (Simon & Schuster, 4-10)
The Queen of Palmyra by Minrose Gwin (HarperPerennial, 5-10)
Heart of Lies by M. L. Malcolm (Harper, 6-10)
The Ballad of the Two Tom Mores by Corey Mesler (Bronx River, 4-10)
Posted by Michael Schaub at 08:01 PM
Nonfiction
John Milton: A Hero of Our Time by David Hawkes (Counterpoint, 4-10)
Missing a Beat: The Rants and Regrets of Seymour Krim edited by Mark Cohen (Syracuse UP, 5-10)
The Lunatic Express: Discovering the World via its Most Dangerous Buses, Boats, Trains, and Planes by Carl Hoffman (Broadway, 3-10)
Quicksand: America's Pursuit of Power in the Middle East by Geoffrey Wawro (Penguin, 4-10)
It's All Greek to Me: From Homer to the Hippocratic Oath, How Ancient Greece Has Shaped Our World by Charlotte Higgins (Harper, 3-10)
Genius on the Edge: The Bizarre Double Life of Dr. William Stewart Halsted by Gerald Imber (Kaplan, 2-10)
Scenes from la Cuenca de Los Angeles y Otros Natural Disasters by Susana Chavez-Silverman (U of Wisconsin P, 5-10)
Bilingual: Life and Reality by Francois Grosjean (Harvard UP, 4-10)
The Long Way Home: An American Journey from Ellis Island to the Great War by David Laskin (Harper, 3-10)
Wisdom Chaser: Finding My Father at 14,000 Feet by Nathan Foster (InterVarsity, 4-10)
Posted by Michael Schaub at 07:42 PM
Poetry
Dead Ahead by Ben Doller (Fence, 5-10)
The Sore Throat and Other Poems by Aaron Kunin (Fence, 5-10)
Living Must Bury by Josie Sigler (Fence, 5-10)
Where I Live by Maxine Kumin (Norton, 4-10)
Gaze by Marthe Reed (Black Radish, 5-10)
Letters to an Albatross by Anita Mohan (BlazeVOX, 2010)
The Apple Trees at Olema by Robert Hass (Ecco, 4-10)
The White Visitation by David Brennan (BlazeVOX, 2010)
The Casanova Chronicles by Myrna Stone (Etruscan, 7-10)
On Wonderland & Waste by Sandy Florian (Sidebrow, 4-10)
Vanishing Points by Valerio Magrelli (FSG, 8-10)
Seedlip and Sweet Apple by Arra Lynn Ross (Milkweed Editions, 4-10)
Posted by Michael Schaub at 07:33 PM
March 06, 2010
Fiction
How to Escape from a Leper Colony by Tiphanie Yanique (Graywolf, 3-10)
Cut Away by Catherine Kirkwood (Arktoi, 4-10)
Thief by Maureen Gibbon (FSG, 5-10)
Obabakoak: Stories from a Village by Bernardo Atxaga (Graywolf, 3-10)
The Silver Hearted by David McConnell (Alyson, 3-10)
One Bloody Thing After Another by Joey Comeau (ECW, 5-10)
O Fallen Angel by Kate Zambreno (Chiasmus, 4-10)
The Only Thing I Have by Rhonda Waterfall (Arsenal Pulp, 4-10)
Father of the Rain by Lily King (Grove Atlantic, 7-10)
An Dantomine Eerly by J. R. D. Middleton (Dark Coast, 4-10)
The Devil's Star by Jo Nesbo (Harper, 3-10)
Bone Dogs by Roger Alan Skipper (Counterpoint, 4-10)
The Last Rendezvous by Anne Plantagenet (Other, 3-10)
A Thread of Sky by Deanna Fei (Penguin, 4-10)
The Origin of Species by Nino Ricci (Other, 4-10)
The American Girl by Monika Fagerholm (Other, 2-10)
Call It What You Want by Keith Lee Morris (Tin House, 4-10)
The Season of Second Chances by Diane Meier (Holt, 4-10)
Rattlesnakes & The Moon by Darlin' Neal (Press 53, 3-10)
Posted by Michael Schaub at 09:28 PM
Nonfiction
Yehuda Halevi by Hillel Halkin (Shocken, 2-10)
Empires and Barbarians: The Fall of Rome and the Birth of Europe by Peter Heather (Oxford UP, 3-10)
Losing My Cool: How a Father's Love and 15,000 Books Beat Hip-Hop Culture by Thomas Chatterton Williams (Penguin, 5-10)
Ego & Soul: The Modern West in Search of Meaning by John Carroll (Counterpoint, 4-10)
So Late, So Soon by Carol Moldaw (Etruscan, 6-10)
Dark Harbor: The War for the New York Waterfront by Nathan Ward (FSG, 6-10)
Posted by Michael Schaub at 09:27 PM
Poetry
The Best of It by Kay Ryan (Grove, 3-10)
Mute by Raymond Luczak (A Midsummer Night's Press, 4-10)
Handmade Love by Julie R. Enszer (A Midsummer Night's Press, 4-10)
Inside, Outside, Morningside by Marjorie Kowalski Cole (Ester Republic, 2-10)
Anamnesis by Lucy Ives (Slope Editions, 1-10)
A Cake Appeared by Shane Jones (Scrambler, 2010)
Multiverse by Mike Smith (BlazeVOX, 2-10)
Posted by Michael Schaub at 09:26 PM