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Want No More

  • Sarah Brunstad
  • March 15, 2012
In a complex story about two anitpodal women, Deborah Scroggins delivers answers in Wanted Women: Faith, Lies & the War on Terror: The Lives of Ayaan Hirsi Ali & Aafia…
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Thorns In Our Hair, But Never a Shroud

  • Nick Ripatrazone
  • March 14, 2012
Used well, the collective perspective affords the poet a wider voice, a surer sense. The reader feels present in these moments of ruin, trusting even the more fantastical occurrences.
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Lost in Space

  • Leland Cheuk
  • March 13, 2012
Both rhetorically playful and plot driven, Tom McCarthy’s first novel, Men in Space, now out in the U.S., floats in between his other novels Remainder and C.
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The Measure of a Moneyless Man

  • Molly Beer
  • March 12, 2012
In Mark Sundeen’s latest book, The Man Who Quit Money, we meet Daniel Suelo, a man who has chosen to live a radically austere life.
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selected unpublished blog posts of a mexican panda express employee

  • Josh Cook
  • March 10, 2012
When Boyle is insightful, this style allows the brilliance of the insight to shine through unfiltered and unaided by the mechanisms of literature and poetry, sometimes with powerful effect.
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God’s Geese Go To Pond

  • Erin Lyndal Martin
  • March 9, 2012
Now, with the Wave Books release of Aygi’s poems, translated masterfully by Sarah Valentine, audiences worldwide are able to celebrate Aygi among his Russian contemporaries.
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Tiny Words vs. The Robot

  • Rebecca Rubenstein
  • March 8, 2012
With [C.] An MLP Stamp Stories Anthology, Mud Luscious Press conducts an experiment in the limits of form: magnificent stories the size of stamps.
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We Rode into Total Downpour

  • Gina Myers
  • March 7, 2012
The poems run between lyric and narrative with many of them having a steam-of-conscious-like feel as the speaker makes leaps in ideas and imagery from line-to-line.
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A Sense of Place

  • Ed Winstead
  • March 6, 2012
Daniel Pyne’s second book A Hole in the Ground Owned By a Liar is a well-told story of the futile attempts we make to escape our overwhelming, modern lives.
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Pratfall into the Infinite

  • David Winters
  • March 5, 2012
Is Lars Iyer’s new book Dogma a refutation of literature? Or an inevitable confirmation? Regardless, it’s a funny philosophical tale.
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A Flower Too Often Smelt Will Wilt

  • Spencer Hendrixson
  • March 2, 2012
This is a hybrid book that chronicles the real journey and imagines the surreal journey of Lewis and Clark, from watching a baseball game with President Jefferson and Ozzie Smith,…
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The Faster I Walk

  • Claudette Bakhtiar
  • March 1, 2012
With a poignant sadness, a young Norwegian writer, Kjersti A. Skomsvold, tells the story of a lonely dying woman in her debut The Faster I Walk, The Smaller I Am.
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