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A Gadabout Eye

  • Danniel Schoonebeek
  • September 2, 2011
Like a firestorm and the weather it creates, the poems in this collection occur in an amorphous space where the forms—and the elements with which Savich fills them—are constantly changing.
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Written Roots

  • Ana Grouverman
  • September 1, 2011
Alexandra Fuller’s third memoir, Cocktail Hour Under the Tree of Forgetfulness, turns the spotlight on her mother—”a broken, splendid, fierce mother.”
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The Day I Got Burned I Wanted to Be Burned

  • Dean Rader
  • August 31, 2011
If you like Hayes, if you like little books, if you like political poetry, or, if you are like me and like all three, you’ll find this book compelling.
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What Do You Deserve?

  • Nina Schuyler
  • August 30, 2011
Alexander Maksik’s debut novel You Deserve Nothing reshapes an old story—predatory teacher and young student.
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No Touching of Girls

  • Aimee DeLong
  • August 29, 2011
Gawker contributor and New York Post reporter, Shelia McClears tells of working at the Times Square peepshows in her new book, The Last of the Live Nude Girls.
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It’s Just My Books I’m Burning!

  • Barbara Berman
  • August 26, 2011
Djordjevic’s rhythms provide a strong scaffolding throughout this powerful, necessary volume. In Oranges and Snow we have an outstanding example of the literary enterprise.
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One of Us Is Already Gone

  • Adam Palumbo
  • August 24, 2011
[York] never sinks into oblique facts, but he does not forget them, either. He never ignores the simple truth that he is writing poetry, and crafts a collection that is…
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The Personal is Political

  • Tori Schacht
  • August 23, 2011
Narrated by young Nuri, Hisham Matar’s second novel, Anatomy of a Disappearance, tells of a father abducted by a corrupt regime—a story that closely resembles Matar’s own life.
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Baffled, Bursting, and Barely Contained

  • Michele Finkelstein
  • August 22, 2011
A collection of flash fiction from five authors, They Could No Longer Contain Themselves unites distinct, compelling voices into one bursting collection.
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The Dead Man’s Back Arches

  • Lois Bassen
  • August 19, 2011
The collection works as poetic biography and Whitmanesque dialogue, and this approach and its repetitions become irresistibly hypnotic.
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Wings Wands Stars Tulle

  • Sean Singer
  • August 17, 2011
These poems have all the instinct and fangs of a canine, and the plush, electric fur of a wolf: the intensity and sheer quality of workmanship in the poems is…
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The Moon Rises

  • Vicki Gundrum
  • August 16, 2011
Glen Duncan’s new novel The Last Werewolf is sophisticated and horrifying and elegant and not for Young Adult readers, who would need a thesaurus, a history tutor and sedation.
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