A Book of Secrets: Illegitimate Daughters, Absent Fathers by Michael Holroyd 2011 Farrar, Straus & Giroux
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From a Terrace in Prague: A Prague Poetry Anthology Edited by Stephan Delbos Litteraria Pragensia Books 2011
Tales of the New World Sabina Murray Black Cat 2011 On the face of it, Sabina Murray’s latest collection of tales appears to take up where her PEN/Faulkner Award-winning collection, The Caprices, left off. Those were tough-edged, yet humane, stories embedded in the Pacific conflicts of World War II. The final story in that [...]
Other Heartbreaks Patricia Henley Engine Books 2011 The stories in Other Heartbreaks by Patricia Henley will change you. Now the thin girl who passes you coming out of a gas station restroom—you’ll notice the gray smudges under her eyes. Your own secrets—the ones folded twice or three times inside you that crop up when [...]
Tom Waits on Tom Waits: Interviews and Encounters Edited by Paul Maher, Jr. nolvadex only Chicago Review Press 2011
Greasewood Creek by Pamela Steele Counterpoint 2011 In her debut novel, Greasewood Creek, Pamela Steele draws heavily from the elements of poetry even as she weaves an emotionally complex story. The short chapters feel like stanzas. The phrases and descriptions linger with the reader, and invite repeated readings. The structure is spare and delicate: time [...]
Bob Dylan: Like a Complete Unknown by David Yaffe Yale University Press 2011
The Call by Yannick Murphy Harper Perennial 2011
Invisible Mink by Jessie Janeshek Iris Press 2010
Volt by Alan Heathcock Graywolf Press 2011
Underdog by Katrina Roberts University of Washington Press 2011
The Bird Sisters Rebecca Rasmussen
Otherwise Known As the Human Condition: Selected Essays and Reviews 1989-2010 Geoff Dyer
And Yet They Were Happy Helen Phillips