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 | David Evanier's The Great Kisser, a novel-in-stories
“Evanier exhibits mastery in this new collection of eight stories….
Evanier’s stories boil with a satisfying sense of rage, stoked by sharp observation.” —Publishers
Weekly (09/18/2006)
“Rich with details that evoke a boy's life in New York in the mid-'50s: stickball in Queens, the dying breaths of vaudeville
on Broadway, radio and TV shows, a growing sexual awareness....the rag-tag offices of a Jewish activist group, the orbit of
Hollywood moguls and the homes of mobsters. The themes evoke those of Philip Roth's work in the '70s.”—Kirkus
Reviews (10/2006)
“Laced with very colorful characters and New York literary and cultural history, this is ultimately a story of new love
and gratitude, powerfully told.”—The Jewish Week (09/08/2006, print edition).
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Patient 002,
a novel by Floyd Skloot
“Patient 002 is an absolutely riveting novel. I'm not sure what
I savored more: The way I was frenetically turning the pages, or all I was learning about the ways drugs are tested on humans.
This is a terrific book: A thriller that is at once literary and spellbinding, and an exploration of the desperate hope we
now bring to modern medicine”—Chris Bohjalian, bestselling author of Midwives and The Double Bind.
“With Patient 002, we are reminded once again that Floyd Skloot is one of America's finest underrated writers. This
is a novel of great sensitivity and depth, with characters who feel real and for whom we feel great compassion. So much of
Skloot's writings display a mastery of human pain and the way in which people live with damage and great dignity. And yet
the unpleasant symptoms of his fictional world are miraculously contained within stories that are engaging, humorous, and
life-affirming. If novels were meant to be agents of healing, then Patient 002 is the perfect pill for a house call”—Thane
Rosenbaum, author of The Golems of Gotham, Second Hand Smoke, and Elijah Visible |  |
Wolf Note, stories by Libby Jacobs.
Finalist, 2006 USA Book News
Best Books Award in the category of short fiction.
"From the first page you know you are in the hands of a masterful, wonderful and evocative author who delves deeply into her
characters and has command of nuance and style. The stories in the collection are mysterious and moving and memorable. I was
enchanted."-- M.J. Rose - internationally bestselling author of six novels including The Halo Effect, The Delilah
Complex and The Venus Fix.
"These are riveting stories, full of mystery and shadows and strange, intriguing passions. Jacobs' lush, musical prose illuminates
the dark corners, revealing new, at times startling, truths about family, friendship and love. A mesmerizing, assured collection."—Cynthia
Weiner, author of the 2006 Pushcart-Prize-winning story "Boyfriends."
WOLF NOTE is a little jewel, peopled with fascinating characters and deeply wrought emotions. Libby Jacobs' stories will stay
with you long after you have turned the last page.These stories are at times mystical, sensual, and disturbing, and always
beautifully written. Good writing is such a joy, and WOLF NOTE is damned good writing. Short story writing is a difficult
and demanding craft, and Libby Jacobs clearly has mastered it. Light a fire, curl up, and get set to immerse yourself in the
moods and power of WOLF NOTE.—Michael Palmer, author of 11 New York Times Bestsellers, including The Society,
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Afoot in the Garden of Enchantments, stories by Ewing Campbell
Winner of the Writer's Digest Fiction Prize, the American Literary Review Fiction Prize, and the Chris O'Malley Fiction Prize.
Praise for work by Ewing Campbell:
"Madonna, Maleva, a novel whose verbal cadences and visual details are dead-on perfect...resonant with sensory experience
and attuned to the rhythms language can use to convey it."—American Book Review
“[Ewing Campbell]—like Joyce, Faulkner, and Cormac McCarthy—is intrigued by the sound and sense of words.”—Southwestern
American Literature
"Campbell’s use of language is highly charged and far from safe, presenting a very complex and intriguing picture"—Cimarron
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The Problem with Relativity, stories by John Sokol
His artwork is in the permanent collection of the Akron Art Museum and other museums and private collections,
including the conference room of The Georgia Review. His stories have been published in Redbook and other
magazines, and his critically acclaimed poems have appeared in America, New York Quarterly, and many others.
Now his stories will be collected for the first time... |  |
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Out on the Autumn River: The Selected Poems of Du Mu.
Translated by David Young and Jiann Lin.
The first full-length translation in English of the 9th-Century (Tang Dynasty)
master of the short lyric is now available.
Notable poet, translator, and editor of The Oberlin College Press and FIELD Magazine David Young teamed up with East
Asian librarian Jiann Lin in a groundbreaking translation project nearly a decade in the making.
Needless to say, this is a valuable reference resource which every library in the English-speaking world ought to have. This
high-quality volume includes a map of Du Mu's China, with numbers corresponding to specific place-names in the poems, so that
the reader may follow the travels of the poet, along with poem in the original language on each adjacent page. |
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The Deepest Blue
A limited-edition chapbook of poems by Michelle Moore
This literary debut was praised this summer in Ohioana Quarterly.
Though this is Moore's first book of poems, they reflect her long literary tutelage under one of the great masters of contemporary
poetic craft.
The poems in this book are dark, not intended for those who expect to turn to poetry for consolation rather than for revelation--but
they are beautifully dark--and elegantly and intelligently so. |
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Photo: Poetry Editor Eric T. Racher
