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Into the Silent Land
by Paul Broks“[A] thoughtful, accessible look into neuropsychology. . . . Bringing to his investigations an easygoing style enlivened with great enthusiasm, Broks entices readers to follow him further into the unknown…
Jesus Saves
by Darcey Steinke“A disturbingly beautiful piece of writing. Darcey Steinke has found a trashy and intensely spiritual poetry in the suburban malls and backwoods of the South, and she has set them…
Lonesome Traveler
by Jack Kerouac“Kerouac’s work represents the most extensive experiment in language and literary form undertaken by an American writer of his generation.” –Ann Douglas “ ‘ ’ ”…
Painted Horses
by Malcolm BrooksA big, enthralling debut novel of America in its ascendance, of history versus modernity, and a love story of the West, Painted Horses introduces an extraordinary new literary voice….
A Question of Mercy
by David Rabe“Beautifully considered, piercingly clear-eyed . . . Mr. Rabe, in a play that reestablishes him as one of America’s preeminent dramatists . . . has written an exquisitely controlled about…
The Return of the Caravels
by António Lobo Antunes“A twenty-first-century modernist heir to the narrative collage technique championed by such masters as Ferdinand C”line, William Faulkner, Gabriel Garc”a M”rquez, James Joyce, Vladimir Nabokov, Thomas Pynchon, and Italo Calvino…
Seven Against Georgia
by Eduardo Mendicutti“Mendicutti’s. . . engagingly outrageous series of linked stories features seven flamboyant drag queens. . . . [These] impudent narrators are flashy, sexy, and oodles of fun. . . ….
Sick Girl
by Amy Silverstein“[Sick Girl] shocked me. It was a revelation. I couldn’t stop reading it. . . . It’s a book that made me shake my head in disbelief with every chapter….
A Spell of Winter
by Helen Dunmore“[Dunmore] beautifully captures paranoia, how it feels to wonder if people smell guilt on your skin and–most powerfully–how you can rationalize an act until you convince yourself it never even…
Turning Japanese
by David Mura“In his memoir Turning Japanese , the poet David Mura brings an intriguing perspective to the New World quest for enlightenment from this ancient and ascendant culture, being himself a…
