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Posted on August 5, 2010
Best of the Web 2010
Ed. Kathy Fish
Dzanc Books, June 2010
ISBN-13: 978-0-9825204-6-8
Paperback: 444pp; $18.00
Guest-edited by fiction writer Kathy Fish, Best of the Web 2010 is the newest edition of Dzanc's yearly anthology series compiling the best fiction, poetry, and non-fiction published in last year's online literary journals.
Bliss and Other Stories
Fiction by Ted Gilley
Univ of Nebraska Press, September 2010
ISBN-13: 978-0-8032-3261-7
Paperback: 136pp; $14.95
Winner of the Prairie Schooner Book Prize in Fiction
Crackpot Poet
Poetry by Jeremy Sigler
Black Square Editions, June 2010
ISBN-13: 978-1-934029-10-7
Hardcover: 125pp; $20.00
New book of poems by author of To and To, Mallet Eyes, Led Almost by My Tie, and Math.
Crave Radiance
New and Selected Poems, 1990-2010
Poetry by Elizabeth Alexander
Graywolf Press, October 2010
ISBN-13: 978-1-55597-568-5
Hardcover: 270pp; $26.00
New and selected poetry, including her inaugural poem "Praise Song for the Day." //
Each Crumbling House
Poetry by Melody S. Gee
Perugia Press, September 2010
ISBN-13: 978-0-9794582-3-1
Paperback: 88pp; $16.00
Winner of the 2009 Perugia Press Prize
How They Were Found
Fiction by Matt Bell
Keyhole Press, October 2010
ISBN-13: 978-0982151259
Paperback: 256pp; $14.00
"In his debut collection...Bell draws from a wide range of genres to create stories. In one, a 19th-century minister follows ghostly instructions to build a mechanical messiah. In another, a tyrannical army commander watches his apocalyptic command slip away as the memories of his men begin to fade and fail. Elsewhere, murders are indexed, new worlds are mapped, fairy tales are fractured and retold and then fractured again.”
Knock Knock
Poetry by Heather Hartley
Carnegie Mellon Univ Press, January 2010
ISBN-13: 978-0-88748-519-0
Paperback: 75pp; $15.95
Knock Knock chronicles the odd and unnerving, the beautiful and tragicomic—the lyrical in everyday life. It is the debut collection of poems from Paris Editor for Tin House magazine.
Krakow Melt
Fiction by Daniel Allen Cox
Arsenal Pulp Press, September 2010
ISBN-13: 978-1-55152-372-9
Paperback: 151pp; $15.95
Pyromaniacs fight homophobia in a Polish city where nothing is fireproof. //
Mentor
A Memoir
Nonfiction by Tom Grimes
Tin House Books, August 2010
ISBN-13: 978-0-9825048-9-5
Paperback: 256pp; $16.95
[A]n exploration of the writing life and the role of a very important teacher
Monkey Bars
Poetry by Matthew Lippman
Typecast Publishing, October 2010
ISN-13: 978-0-9844961-0-5
Hardcover: 60pp; $21.95
New book from the author of The New Year of Yellow.
Pilgrims: A Love Story
Chapbook by T.J. Beitelman
Black Lawrence Press, 2010
ISBN-13: 978-0-9826228-6-5
Chapbook: 38pp; $9.00
Winner of the Black River Chapbook Competition //
The Really Funny Thing About Apathy
Fiction by Chelsea Martin
sunnyoutside, November 2010
ISBN-13: 978-1-934513-24-8
Paperback: 68pp; $13.00
[E]mploys mathematical paradoxes and theories of infinity to examine the inner workings of the bored and culturally over-stimulated while they idly consider the meaning of life.
Room
Fiction by Emma Donoghue
Little, Brown & Co, September 2010
ISBN-13: 978-0-316-09833-5
Hardcover: 336pp; $24.99
"A five-year-old boy - who's lived his whole life in a single room - narrates this … story of the power of a mother's love."
The Sexual Life of an Islamist in Paris
Fiction by Leila Marouane
Europa Editions, May 2010
ISBN-13: 978-1-933372-85-3
Paperback: 224pp; $15.00
[A] humorous take on immigration, racism and religious fundamentalism in France and a … portrait of the universal struggle between a man and his overbearing mother.
Vivisect
Poetry by Lisa Lewis
New Issues Poetry & Prose, October 2010
ISBN-13: 978-1-930974-92-0
Paperback: 79pp; $15.00
New book of poems from author of The Unbeliever.
New & Noteworthy Books
Full list of new & noteworthy books received
August 5, 2010
Anthology
Best of the Web 2010, ed. Kathy Fish, Dzanc Books
Chapbook
Pilgrims: A Love Story, T.J. Beitelman, Black Lawrence Press //
Fiction
Bliss, Ted Gilley, Univ of Nebraska Press
The Brave, Nicholas Evans, Little, Brown & Co //
Cookie & Me, Mary Jane Ryals, Kitsune Books //
How They Were Found, Matt Bell, Keyhole Press
How We Move the Air, Garnett Kilberg Cohen, Mayapple Press //
Krakow Melt, Daniel Allen Cox, Arsenal Pulp Press //
O Fallen Angel, Kate Zambrano, Chiasmus Press
The Really Funny Thing About Apathy, Chelsea Martin, Sunnyoutside
Room, Emma Donoghue, Little, Brown & Co
The Sexual Life of an Islamist in Paris, Leila Marouane, Europa Editions
Nonfiction
Mentor, Tom Grimes, Tin House Books
Poetry
Crackpot Poet, Jeremy Sigler, Black Square Editions
Crave Radiance, Elizabeth Alexander, Graywolf Press //
Each Crumbling House, Melody S. Gee, Perugia Press
Incidental Music, Jane Joritz-Nakagawa, BlazeVOX [books] //
Knock Knock, Heather Hartley, Carnegie Mellon Univ Press
Money For Sunsets, Elizabeth J. Colen, Steel Toe Books //
Monkey Bars, Matthew Lippman, Typecast Publishing
Pima Road Notebook, Keith Ekiss, New Issues Poetry & Prose //
Sonnets, Camille Martin, Shearsman Books //
Spectre, Mark Lamoureux, Black Radish Books //
Sweetgrass, Micah Lang, Sunnyoutside
Vivisect, Lisa Lewis, New Issues Poetry & Prose
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