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Either Way I’m Celebrating by Sommer Browning

Sommer Browning’s Either Way I’m Celebrating shows effervescence, delight in language, and whimsy, even as it hides more introspective and severe undertones. Taking elements of surrealism from the Ashbery branch…

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Parsifal, by Jim Krusoe

Last year, Jim Krusoe completed his Resurrection Trilogy, a threesome of novels (Girl Factory, Erased, and Toward You) concerned with what he called “the spongy turf between life and death,”

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Havana Requiem, by Paul Goldstein

Legal eagle Michael Seeley is on his last chance. His Manhattan law firm has warily agreed to take him back but his probation means reining in the waywardness and alcoholism…

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Dogs of Brooklyn by Susie DeFord

When poets decide to collect what they consider to be some of their best work into a manuscript, there are seemingly thousands of choices to make. Should all the poems…

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Little Century, by Anna Keesey

With her debut novel Little Century, Anna Keesey finds herself among other admirable writers with the hard-won title of late-blooming author.

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Troy, Unincorporated by Francesca Abbate

The good news about Troy, Unincorporated by Francesca Abbate, is that though it is a re-imagination of Chaucer’s “Troilus and Criseyde” from his Canterbury Tales, you don’t have to have…

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Butcher’s Tree by Feng Sun Chen

Take the omniscience and time-weary voice of myths, add in the best parts of fables, namely the anthropomorphic language and the supernatural weirdness, ground it in some extremely compelling poetry, and you’re still nowhere near what’s happening in this book.

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The Prisoner of Heaven, by Carlos Ruiz Zafón

The latest novel by Spanish writer Carloz Ruiz Zafón opens on a cold winter’s day in Barcelona. Business is abysmal at Sempre & Sons bookshop. The Sempre family’s loquacious friend,…

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Scared Text by Eric Baus

A metamorphosis occurs among the prose poems of Eric Baus’ collection, Scared Text, winner of the Colorado Prize for Poetry. We are the audience, the spectators, but also part of…

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Either Way I’m Celebrating by Sommer Browning

Parsifal, by Jim Krusoe

Havana Requiem, by Paul Goldstein

Dogs of Brooklyn by Susie DeFord

Little Century, by Anna Keesey

Troy, Unincorporated by Francesca Abbate

Butcher’s Tree by Feng Sun Chen

The Prisoner of Heaven, by Carlos Ruiz Zafón

Partyknife by Dan Magers

The Watery Part of the World, by Michael Parker

Manual of Painting and Calligraphy, by Jose Saramago

Scared Text by Eric Baus

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