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Set the Dumpster On Fire

  • Paul Corman-Roberts
  • June 29, 2011
What Gottlieb reveals to us in this collection, is that the key to survival is the same animal desire that served as our undoing in the first place, but the…
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No Bad News for the King

  • Devan Schwartz
  • June 28, 2011
In No Bad News for the King, Emma Larkin (a pseudonym for an American journalist in Asia) untangles the convoluted story of contemporary Burma and the 2008 cyclone that killed…
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Your Emptiness Has an Aqueduct In It

  • Danniel Schoonebeek
  • June 24, 2011
The Last Usable Hour might be one of our truest examples of serial poetry. Each of the book’s four sequences, and each of the poems that comprise them, stand as…
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His Nose Still Mine

  • Nancy Lili Gonzalez
  • June 22, 2011
The reflective and observant nature of the speaker creates a sense of subtle wisdom that clips [Shane] McCrae’s signature, disruptive syntax.
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Something for Nothing

  • Karen Laws
  • June 21, 2011
Set during the ’70s inflation crisis, David Anthony’s first novel, Something for Nothing, is a suspenseful thriller with literary realism. You just may miss your next train stop.
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The Crash Scene of Species Extinction

  • Barbara Berman
  • June 17, 2011
Everything Roberson writes has an encyclopedic backscope, condensed into impeccable art.
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The Summer Without Men

  • Brachah Goykadosh
  • June 16, 2011
Siri Hustvedt’s new novel The Summer Without Men traces the summer of Mia Fredrickson, newly divorced and back home in Minnesota surrounded by women, young and old.
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Wanting Light and Buying Hammers

  • Weston Cutter
  • June 15, 2011
Even the hardest books ultimately cohere, it’s just a matter of whether their internal logic will eventually open up and allow you entrance. Lily Brown’s Rust or Go Missing is…
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Down from Cascom Mountain

  • Karen Laws
  • June 14, 2011
Ann Joslin Williams’ first novel, Down from Cascom Mountain, follows troubled young people in an idyllic lodge in New Hampshire for one summer.
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The Octopi and the Flaking Salt

  • Jessica Varin
  • June 10, 2011
The Grief Performance took me to the edge of an existential black hole, then threw me back on the concrete and said, “Bitch, please. This is theater.”
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When the Stonecutter’s Work is Done

  • Adam Palumbo
  • June 8, 2011
Be warned: Char demands much from his reader. His poetry seems to exist in a limbo, where emotion and intellect meet with startling results. His labyrinthine vision leads the reader…
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Life on Sandpaper

  • Max Rivlin-Nadler
  • June 7, 2011
Yoram Kaniuk’s autobiographical novel Life on Sandpaper follows the Israeli writer through his galavanting in 1950s Greenwich Village.
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