Book Reviews by Title - A (75)
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- Book Type Nonfiction
- by Patricia Horvath
- Publisher Etruscan Press
- Date Published July 2017
- ISBN-13 978-0-9903221-9-1
- Format Paperback
- Pages 188pp
- Price $16.95
- Review by Valerie Wieland
Imagine being a 13-year-old in the hands of a “large, stubble-faced man who was smoking a cigar. [ . . . ] a man who would spread his tobacco-stained fingers on my torso, breathe his sour breath into my face.” Sounds like a child about to undergo a nasty ordeal. Though it’s not what you may be thinking, Patricia Horvath did, in fact, experience this ordeal after being diagnosed with scoliosis, “a double, S-shaped curvature of the spine.”
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- Book Type Nonfiction
- by Laura Raicovich
- Publisher Coffee House Press
- Date Published April 2017
- ISBN-13 978-1-56689-466-1
- Format Paperback
- Pages 104pp
- Price $12.95
- Review by Valerie Wieland
You may not have heard of conceptual artist Walter De Maria, but if you’re curious like me, you’ll want to know more about him and his career after reading Laura Raicovich’s book-length essay, At the Lightning Field.
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- Book Type Nonfiction Edited
- by Christopher Schaberg & Mark Yakich
- Publisher Zero Books
- Date Published July 2016
- ISBN-13 978-1-78279-818-7
- Format Paperback
- Pages 219pp
- Price $22.95
- Review by Valerie Wieland
If you’ve ever flown anywhere, you’ll identify with many of the short essays in Airplane Reading, edited by Christopher Schaberg and Mark Yakich. Even if you’ve never flown, it’s still worth reading for sentences like this: “A flying problem is the opposite of a drinking problem: it starts when you lose interest in the free booze.” So writes Ian Bogost in his essay “Frequent Flight.” Bogost is indeed a frequent flyer at more than 200,000 miles in a year. His piece is joined by essays from fellow travelers, including several doctors who take to the sky.
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- Book Type Poetry
- by Molly Peacock
- Publisher W. W. Norton & Company
- Date Published January 2017
- ISBN-13 978-0-393-25471-6
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 128pp
- Price $25.95
- Review by Valerie Wieland
The person referenced in the title and pages of Molly Peacock’s book of poetry The Analyst is Joan Workman Stein, a New York practitioner who had a stroke in 2012 and later was able to resume her love of painting. Over a span of close to 40 years, the initial therapist-patient relationship between Peacock and Stein became a close and enduring friendship.
- Subtitle Philip Booth and the Gift of Place
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- Book Type Nonfiction
- by Jeanne Braham
- Publisher Bauhan Publishing
- Date Published November 2015
- ISBN-13 978-0-87233-206-5
- Format Paperback
- Pages 145pp
- Price $23.95
- Review by Valerie Wieland
Available Light: Philip Booth and the Gift of Place is as much a travelogue of picturesque Maine, and especially the town of Castine, as it is a biography of the late poet Philip Booth. In Jeanne Braham’s tidy book, the town and the poet are pretty much inseparable.
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- Book Type Fiction
- by Brian Booker
- Publisher Bellevue Literary Press
- Date Published May 2016
- ISBN-13 978-1-942658-12-2
- Format Paperback
- Pages 256pp
- Price $16.95
- Review by Allyson Hoffman
Tinged with mystery and magical realism, Brian Booker’s Are You Here for What I’m Here For? is an outstanding collection of self-contained short stories with themes of sleeplessness, sadness, and sickness. The characters, setting, and point of view vary from each story, which demonstrates the wide range of Booker’s fiction writing skills. Furthermore, the stories occur in different, sometimes undeterminable time periods, adding flavor and movement to the reading experience.
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- Book Type Poetry
- by Marsha de la O
- Publisher BOA Editions LTD
- Date Published September 2015
- ISBN-13 978-1-938160-81-3
- Format Paperback
- Pages 104pp
- Price $16.00
- Review by Elizabeth O'Brien
Marsha de la O situates her poem “Crossing Over” in time and space as follows:
This time of year, gold lingers
in thin autumn air
ether-light shining
crossing over [.]
- Subtitle Finding a Place in the World from Kashmir to New York
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- Book Type Nonfiction
- by Githa Hariharan
- Publisher Restless Books
- Date Published March 2016
- ISBN-13 978-1632060617
- Format Paperback
- Pages 304pp
- Price $16.99
- Review by Nichole L. Reber
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- Book Type Poetry
- by Jennifer Nelson
- Publisher Ugly Duckling Presse
- Date Published Fall 2015
- ISBN-13 978-1-937027-51-3
- Format Paperback
- Pages 88pp
- Price $14.00
- Review by Benjamin Champagne
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- Book Type Poetry
- by Tony Hoagland
- Publisher Graywolf Press
- Date Published September 2015
- ISBN-13 978-1-55597-718-4
- Format Paperback
- Pages 96pp
- Price $16.00
- Review by Valerie Wieland
