New & Noteworthy Books
New & Forthcoming Books from
Independent &
University Presses
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Posted on July 14, 2011
Afterglow/Tras el Rayo
Poetry by Alberto Blanco
Translated from the Spanish by Jennifer Rathbun
Bitter Oleander Press, June 2011
ISBN-13: 978-0978633554
Paperback: 144pp; $21.00
This is the first complete book of [Alberto Blanco's] work in English accompanied by its facing Spanish text.
Already it is Dusk
Chapbook by Joe Fletcher
Brooklyn Arts Press, September 2011
ISBN-13: 978-1-936767-00-7
Chapbook: 51pp; $8.00
James Tate says "Powerful, fully-realized complications…demonstrations of the twists and turns a human mind can take, of the serious dark deep dangers and beautiful kind."
Fantastic Women
18 tales of the surreal and the sublime from Tin House
Edited by Rob Spillman
Tin House Books, August 2011
ISBN-13: 978-1-935639-10-7
Paperback: 280pp; $18.95
Fantastic Women assembles the work of eighteen inventive, insightful women authors who steep their narratives in a heady potion of surrealism and macabre black comedy.
Karaoke Culture
Nonfiction by Dubravka Ugresic
Translated from the Croation by David Williams
Open Letter, October 2011
ISBN-13: 978-1-934824-57-3
Paperback: 324pp; $15.95
Karaoke Culture is full of candid, personal, and opinionated accounts of topics ranging from the baffling worldwide-pop-culture phenomena to the detriments of conformist nationalism.
The Lizard's Tale
Fiction by Jose Donoso
Translated from the Spanish by Jill Levine
Northwestern Univ Press, October 2011
ISBN-13: 978-0-8101-2702-9
Paperback: 224pp; $23.95
Defeated and hiding in his Barcelona apartment, painter Antonio Munoz-Roa…relates the story of his fight with Luisa, his cousin, lover, and benefactor, after his scandalous desertion from the "Informalist" movement, […] in which he had been a member of certain standing.
The Necessity of Certain Behaviors
Fiction by Shannon Cain
Univ of Pittsburgh Press, September 2011
ISBN-13: 978-0-8229-4410-2
Paperback: 160pp; $24.95
Winner of the 2011 Drue Heinz Literature Prize selected by acclaimed author Alice Mattison. The stories in The Necessity of Certain Behaviors chart the treacherous and often absurd territory of the illicit.
Send Me Work
Fiction by Katherine Karlin
TriQuarterly Books, October 2011
ISBN-13: 978-0-8101-5220-5
Paperback: 336pp; $17.95
Unlike the heroines of domestic fiction, Katherine Karlin's women face their biggest challenges outside of the house.
New & Noteworthy Books
Full list of new & noteworthy books received
July 14, 2011
Anthology
Fantastic Women: 18 tales of the surreal and the sublime from Tin House, Ed. Rob Spillman, Tin House Books
Chapbook
Already it is Dusk, Joe Fletcher, Brooklyn Arts Press
Cross-Genre
Concertos, No Collective, Ugly Duckling Presse
Cursivism, Will Hubbard, Ugly Duckling Presse
An Old Junker: a senior represents, Howard Junker, IF SF publishing
Fiction
Broken Irish: A Novel, Edward J. Delaney, Turtle Point Press
Crash & Tell, Stories, Lori Baker, Louisiana State Univ Press
The Lizard's Tale, Jose Donoso, Northwestern Univ Press
Magpies, Lynne Barrett, Carnegie Mellon Univ Press
My Two Worlds, Sergio Chejfec, Open Letter
The Necessity of Certain Behaviors, Shannon Cain, Univ of Pittsburgh Press
Re-Visions: Stories from Stories, Meredith Sue Willis, Hamilton Stone Editions
Send Me Work, Katherine Karlin, TriQuarterly Books
That Paris Year, Joanna Biggar, Alan Squire Publishing
When the de la Cruz Family Danced, Donna Miscolta, Signal 8 Press
Nonfiction
Don't Shoot the Gentile, James C. Work, Univ of Oklahoma Press
Karaoke Culture, Dubravka Ugresic, Open Letter
Poetry
Afterglow/Tras el Rayo, Alberto Blanco, Bitter Oleander Press
Dear Prudence: New and Selected Poems, David Trinidad, Turtle Point Press
The Hermit, Laura Solomon, Ugly Duckling Presse
Lucky Fish, Aimee Nezhukumatathil, Tupelo Press
Saint Monica, Mary Biddinger, Black Lawrence Press
What have you done to our ears to make us hear echoes?, Arlene Kim, Milkweed Editions