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Best Poetry 2013, the Extended Version: We’ve Got 12 Top Titles for You
Officially, Library Journal lists five Best Poetry titles in its December issue, along with all the other Bests of the year. But my colleague Annalisa Pesek and I couldn’t stop there. After several...
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Six Essential Debuts, from Quan Barry to M.O. Walsh | Fiction Previews, Feb....
Barry, Quan. She Weeps Each Time You’re Born. Pantheon. Feb. 2015. 288p. ISBN 9780307911773. $24.95; ebk. ISBN 9780307911780. LITERARY Barry writes quietly fervent poetry that’s been honored with an...
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Literary Reads from Ivan Doig, Alice LaPlante, Andreï Makine, & More |...
Doig, Ivan. Last Bus to Wisdom. Riverhead. Aug. 2015. NAp. ISBN 9781594633638. $27.95. LITERARY Raised in the mid-1950s by his beloved grandmother in Montana’s Two Medicine Country, known to anyone who...
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Key Poets To Discover and Rediscover, Including Juan Felipe Herrera | Poetry...
Equi, Elaine. Sentences and Rain. Coffee House. Oct. 2015. 100p. ISBN 9781566894210. pap. $16.95. POETRY Sharp-eyed, witty, and ever able to nail the mood or idea in distilled language—“A slight...
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Reading the World | Fiction in Translation
A woman on a crowded train finds herself sitting next to a man who once scorned her. A smooth operator entertains a struggling writer friend in a seedy bar. A teenager injured by a careening car hunts...
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Spring 2016 Poetry: Top Picks
From Frank Bidart’s contained drama and Rita Dove’s blazingly heartfelt exploration of self and history, to the engaging openness of Campbell McGrath and Maureen McLane, to the shape-shifting formal...
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Literary Glitter from Kleeman, Livesey, Towles, & More | Fiction Previews,...
Altrad, Mohed. Badawi. Black Cat: Grove Atlantic. Sept. 2016. 256p. ISBN 9780802125798. pap. $16. LITERARY Drawing on his own life to craft this first novel, Syrian-born French billionaire Altrad...
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From De Quincey to Abramovic to the Beatles | Arts Previews, Oct. 2016, Pt. 3
Abramovic, Marina. Walk Through Walls: Becoming Marina Abramovic. Crown Archetype. Oct. 2016. 304p. ISBN 9781101905043. $28; ebk. ISBN 9781101905050. CD/downloadable: Random Audio. ART/MEMOIR...
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Key Literary Fiction | Fiction Previews, Apr. 2017, Pt. 1
Bausch, Richard. Living in the Weather of the World: Stories. Knopf. Apr. 2017. 256p. ISBN 9780451494825. $25.95; ebk. ISBN 9780451494832. SHORT STORIES Recipient of a PEN/Malamud Award, among other...
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Five Essential Poetry Titles | Poetry Previews, Apr. 2018
Dennis, Carl. Night School. Penguin. Apr. 2018. 112p. ISBN 9780143132356. pap. $20; ebk. ISBN 9780525504337. POETRY The author of plainspoken verse that presents everyday life, then looks beneath the...
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