NewPages Book Reviews :: February 2012
Visit NewPages Book Reviews for February to read thoughtful commentary and analysis of the following titles:
Against the Workshop: Provocations, Polemics, Controversies
Nonfiction by Anis Shivani
Texas Review Press, October 2011
Review by Patrick James Dunagan
Half in Shade
Nonfiction by Judith Kitchen
Coffee House Press, April 2012
Review by Ann Beman
St. Agnes, Pink-Slipped
Poetry by Ann Cefola
Kattywompus Press, August 2011
Review by Alyse Bensel
The Tin Ticket: The Heroic Journey of Australia’s Convict Women
Nonfiction by Deborah J. Swiss
Berkley Trade, November 2011
Review by Lydia Pyne
In the Absence of Predators
Fiction by Vinnie Wilhelm
Rescue Press, October 2011
Review by Wendy Breuer
Starring Madame Modjeska: On Tour in Poland and America
Nonfiction by Beth Holmgren
Indiana University Press, November 2011
Review by Patricia Contino
Exhibit of Forking Paths
Poetry by James Grinwis
Coffee House Press, October 2011
Review by Gina Myers
Lucky Bruce: A Literary Memoir
Nonfiction by Bruce Jay Friedman
Biblioasis, October 2011
Review by David Breithaupt
The City, Our City
Poetry by Wayne Miller
Milkweed Editions, September 2011
Review by James Crews
Disclosure
Nonfiction by Dana Teen Lomax
Black Radish Books, December 2011
Review by Aimee Nicole
Drunken Angel
Nonfiction by Alan Kaufman
Viva Editions, November 2011
Review by Audrey Quinn
The Day Before Happiness
Fiction by Erri de Luca
Translated from the Italian by Michael F. Moore
Other Press, November 2011
Review by Olive Mullet
Already It Is Dusk
Poetry by Joe Fletcher
Brooklyn Arts Press, September 2011
Review by H. V. Cramond
Hypotheticals
Poetry by Leigh Kotsilidis
Coach House Books, October 2011
Review by Alyse Bensel
The Cisco Kid in the Bronx: Episodes in the Life of a Young Man
Fiction by Miguel Antonio Ortiz
Hamilton Stone Editions, January 2012
Review by Paul Pedroza
Lunch Bucket Paradise
Fiction by Fred Setterberg
Heydey Books, November 2011
Review by Audrey Quinn
selected unpublished blog posts of a mexican panda express employee
Poetry by Megan Boyle
Muumuu House, November 2011
Review by Aimee Nicole
