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May 31, 2010
Poetry
Vacations on the Black Star Line by Michael Cirelli (Hanging Loose, 6-10)
Hold Tight: The Truck Darling Poems by Jeni Olin (Hanging Loose, 6-10)
This Noisy Egg by Nicole Walker (Barrow Street, 2010)
Portrait of Colon Dash Parenthesis by Jeffrey Jullich (Litmus, 2010)
Time of Sky Castles in the Air by Ayane Kawata (Litmus, 2010)
Pigafetta Is My Wife by Joe Hall (Black Ocean, 5-10)
Objects for a Fog Death by Julie Doxsee (Black Ocean, 5-10)
Ernesta, in the Style of the Flamenco by Sandy McIntosh (Marsh Hawk, 2010)
Almost Dorothy by Neil de la Flor (Marsh Hawk, 2010)
Table Alphabetical of Hard Words by Pattie McCarthy (Apogee, 2010)
Delinquent by Mina Pam Dick (2009, FuturePoem)
Forked Tongue by Craig Sernotti (Blue Room, 2010)
The Nothing That Is by John Olson (Ravenna, 2010)
The Range of Your Amazing Nothing by Lina ramona Vitkauskas (Ravenna, 2010)
The Smaller Half by Marc Rahe (Rescue, 6-10)
Tongue by Rachel Contreni Flynn (Red Hen, 4-10)
Bar Book: Poems and Otherwise by Julie Sheehan (Norton, 6-10)
Posted by Jessa Crispin at 07:09 AM
Nonfiction
A Great Unrecorded History: A New Life of E. M. Forster (FSG, 5-10)
Where's My Wand?: One Boy's Magical Triumph over Alienation and Shag Carpeting by Eric Poole (Amy Einhorn, 6-10)
Should You Judge This Book by Its Cover?: 100 Fresh Takes on Familiar Sayings and Quotations by Julian Baggini (Counterpoint, 6-10)
A Thousand Machines by Gerald Raunig (Semiotext(e)/MIT, 6-10)
The Game from Where I Stand: A Ballplayer's Inside View by Doug Glanville (Times, 5-10)
Mortuary Confidential: Undertakers Spill the Dirt by Kenneth McKenzie and Todd Harra (Kensington, 5-10)
Turn Left at the Trojan Horse: A Would-Be Hero's American Odyssey by Brad Herzog (Kensington, 6-10)
Color Blind: A Memoir by Precious Williams (Bloomsbury, 8-10)
On the Grid: A Plot of Land, an Average Neighborhood, and the Systems That Make Our World Work by Scott Huler (Rodale, 5-10)
The Cult TV Book: From Star Trek to Dexter, New Approaches to TV Outside the Box edited by Stacey Abbott (Soft Skull, 6-10)
Theodor SEUSS Geisel by Donald E. Pease (Oxford UP, 4-10)
The Pain Chronicles: Cures, Myths, Mysteries, Prayers, Diaries, Brain Scans, Healing, and the Science of Suffering by Melanie Thernstrom (FSG, 9-10)
Della: A Memoir of My Daughter by Chuck Barris (6-10, Simon and Schuster)
Great Negotiations: Agreements that Changed the Modern World by Fredrik Stanton (Westholme, 2010)
Probation by Tom Mendicino (Kensington, 4-10)
Robin and Ruby by K. M. Soehnlein (Kensington, 4-10)
A Cabinet of Roman Curiosities: Strange Tales and Surprising Facts from the World's Greatest Empire by J. C. McKeown (Oxford UP, 6-10)
The Butterfly Mosque: A Young American Woman's Journey to Love and Islam by G. Willow Wilson (Atlantic Monthly, 6-10)
Posted by Jessa Crispin at 07:02 AM
Fiction
The Book of Right and Wrong by Matt Debenham (Ohio State UP, 6-10)
The Bradbury Report by Steven Polansky (Weinstein, 5-10)
The More I Owe You by Michael Sledge (Counterpoint, 6-10)
Who Fears Death by Nnedi Okorafor (DAW, 6-10)
Work Song by Ivan Doig (Riverhead, 7-10)
Falling Is Like This by Kate Rockland (St. Martin's, 5-10)
Days of Grace by Catherine Hall (Viking, 6-10)
Vestments by John Reimringer (Milkweed, 9-10)
The Reapers Are the Angels by Alden Bell (Holt, 8-10)
The Waters Rising by Sheri S. Tepper (Eos, 9-10)
Black Mamba Boy by Nadifa Mohamed (FSG, 8-10)
Tears of the Mountain by John Addiego (Unbridled, 9-10)
Fame: A Novel in Nine Episodes by Daniel Kehlmann (Pantheon, 9-10)
The Consequence of Skating by Steven Gillis (Black Lawrence, 10-10)
The Pages by Murray Ball (Other, 8-10)
A Geography of Secrets by Frederick Reuss (Unbridled, 9-10)
The Great Lover by Jill Dawson (HarperPerennial, 6-10)
Beach Week by Susan Coll (Sarah Crichton, 6-10)
The Drifts by Thom Vernon (Coach House, 2010)
The Wrong Blood by Manuel de Lope (Other, 10-10)
Girl by the Road at Night by David Rabe (Simon and Schuster, 6-10)
Posted by Jessa Crispin at 06:51 AM
May 11, 2010
Fiction
Banana Republican by Eric Rauchway (FSG, 7-10)
Consolation by Jonathan Strong (Pressed Wafer, 8-10)
Day for Night by Frederick Reiken (Reagan Arthur, 5-10)
Stash by David Klein (Broadway, 7-10)
Comedy in a Minor Key by Hans Keilson (FSG, 8-10)
Barnacle Love by Anthony De Sa (Algonquin, 9-10)
Moscow Sting by Alex Dryden (Ecco, 8-10)
Isobel & Emile by Alan Reed (Coach House, 5-10)
The Ice Princess by Camilla Lackberg (Pegasus, 6-10)
The Big Bang Symphony: A Novel of Antarctica by Lucy Jane Bledsoe (Terrace/U of Wisconsin P, 5-10)
My Name Is Mary Sutter by Robin Oliveira (Viking, 5-10)
Drain by Davis Schneiderman (Northwestern UP, 6-10)
The Drifts by Thom Vernon (Coach House, 5-10)
Empty Mile by Matthew Stokoe (Akashic, 7-10)
Mesopotamia by Arthur Nersesian (Akashic, 7-10)
Ilustrado by Miguel Syjuco (FSG, 5-10)
Ether by Evgenia Citkowitz (FSG, 5-10)
Peep Show by Joshua Braff (Algonquin, 6-10)
Strip by Thomas Perry (HMH, 5-10)
The Big Bang by Mickey Spillane and Max Allan Collins (HMH, 5-10)
By Accident by Susan Kelly (Pegasus, 5-10)
The Bridge at Valentine by Renee Thompson (Tres Picos, 8-10)
Shhh: The Story of a Childhood by Raymond Federman (Starcherone, 6-10)
Posted by Michael Schaub at 08:39 AM
Nonfiction
How to Wreck a Nice Beach: The Vocoder from World War II to Hip-Hop by Dave Tompkins (Stop Smiling/Melville House, 5-10)
Being Wrong: Adventures in the Margin of Error by Kathryn Schulz (Ecco, 6-10)
This Is a Soul: The Mission of Rick Hodes by Marilyn Berger (Morrow, 4-10)
My Queer War by James Lord (FSG, 5-10)
A Life Like Other People's by Alan Bennett (FSG, 9-10)
Mentor by Tom Grimes (Tin House, 8-10)
Tea Time with Terrorists: A Motorcycle Journey into the Heart of Sri Lanka's Civil War by Mark Stephen Meadows (Soft Skull, 5-10)
I Was Looking for a Street by Charles Willeford (PictureBox/Family, 5-10)
One More Theory about Happiness by Paul Guest (Ecco, 5-10)
Authors Out Here: Fitzgerald, West, Parker, and Schulberg in Hollywood by Tom Cerasulo (U of South Carolina P, 4-10)
The Tenth Parallel: Dispatches from the Fault Line Between Christianity and Islam by Eliza Griswold (FSG, 9-10)
Take Good Care of the Garden and the Dogs: Family, Friends and Faith in Small-Town Alaska by Heather Lende (Algonquin, 6-10)
The House at Royal Oak: Starting Over and Rebuilding a Life One Room at a Time by Carol Eron Rizzoli (Black Dog & Leventhal, 6-10)
Posted by Michael Schaub at 08:29 AM
Poetry
Theology of the Body by Donora Hillard (Gold Wake, 7-10)
Selected Poems by Michael Hofmann (FSG, 5-10)
Love and Strange Horses by Nathalie Handal (U of Pittsburgh P, 5-10)
Toxic Flora by Kimiko Hahn (Norton, 5-10)
So Much Things to Say: 100 Calabash Poets edited by Kwame Dawes and Colin Channer (Akashic, 7-10)
The Morning News Is Exciting by Don Mee Choi (Action, 7-10)
Glow of Our Sweat by Francisco Aragon (Scapegoat, 5-10)
All That Gorgeous Pitiless Song by Rebecca Foust (Many Mountains Moving, 4-10)
Look Back, Look Ahead by Srecko Kosovel (Ugly Duckling Presse, 3-10)
Posted by Michael Schaub at 08:21 AM