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 width= The Passion Artist
A novel by John Hawkes
Introduction by Rick Moody
Dalkey Archive Press
2010 (First published 1979)
185 pps.
Reviewed by Len Gutkin
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Microscripts

A collection of miniature prose pieces by Robert Walser
Translated from the German by Susan Bernofsky
New Directions
First published in the 1970s; Translation published 2010.
160 Pages
Reviewed by Marta Figlerowic
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The Wind Blows Through the Doors of My Heart
A Collection of Poems by Deborah Digges
Alfred A. Knopf, 2010
50 pp
Reviewed by Marta Figlerowicz
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My Little War
By Louis Paul Boon
Translated from the Flemish by Paul Vincent
Dalkey Archive Press, 2010
136 pp
Reviewed by Len Gutkin
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Antwerp
A novel by Roberto Bolaño
Translated from the Spanish
by Natasha Wimmer
New Directions

First published 2002;
Translation published 2010
78 pages
Reviewed by Marta Figlerowicz
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Shore Ordered Ocean
Poems by Dora Malech
Published by
Waywiser Press
96 pages
Reviewed by Jane Lewty


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Portrait of an Addict as a Young Man
A Memoir by Bill Clegg
Published by
Little, Brown & Company
240 pages
Reviewed by Patrick Haas
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The Ticking is the Bomb
by Nick Flynn
WW Norton
2009
Reviewed by Patrick Haa
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Animals and Objects In and Out of Water
By Jay Ryan, with a foreword by Andrew Bird and an essay by Joe Meno
Akashic Books
, December 2009
150 pages with 140 color illustrations
Reviewed by SD Allison
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Meet Me at the Happy Bar
Poetry Steve Langan
BlazeVOX[books]
(2009)
Reviewed by Weston Cutter
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Eternal Hydra
Drama by Anton Piatiagorsky
Coach House
Books (2009)
Reviewed by Kamilah Foreman
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Take It
Poetry by Joshua Beckman
Wave Books
(2009)
Reviewed by Colin Huerter

Reviews from Print Issues

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The Skating Rink

By Roberto Bolaño
Translated by Chris Andrews
New Directions
182 pages
The Bolaño Who Would Be God
or, An Open Letter to Horacio Castellanos Moya
Reviewed by Gabriel Levinson
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A New Literary History of America

Essays edited by Greil Marcus and Werner Sollors
Belknap Press of Harvard University Press
1128 pages
The Good Soldiers
Nonfiction by David Finkel
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
304 pages
Reviewed by Weston Cutter
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Everything Flows

A novel by Vasily Grossman
Translated from the Russian by Robert Chandler, Elizabeth Chandler, and Anna Aslanyan
NYRB Classics
272 pages
Reviewed by Anthony Marra
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If I Were Another

Poems by Mahmoud Darwish,
Translated from the Arabic by Fady Joudah
Farrar, Strauss and Giroux
201 pages
Reviewed by Jane Lewty
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Classification of a Spit Stain
Artist Book by Ellie Ga
Published by Ugly Duckling Press
Reviewed by Rachel G Mohl

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Hilarity

Poetry by Patty Seyburn
Published by New Issues Poetry and Prose
Reviewed by Steve Langan

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Do Not Deny Me

short fiction by Jean Thompson
published by Simon & Schuster
reviewed by Kamilah Foreman
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What We Were Doing and Where We Were Going

short fiction by Damion Searls
published by Dalkey Archive
reviewed by Steven Gillis
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It Is Daylight

poetry by Arda Collins
published by Yale University Press
Reviewed by Alysse Hotz
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Adorno’s Noise

Essays by Carla Harryman
Published by Essay Press
Reviewed by Jonathan Wegner
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Unincorporated Territory [Hacha]

Poetry by Craig Santos Perez
Published by TinFish Press
Reviewed by John Beer
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Hotel Crystal

A book by Olivier Rolin
Translation by Jane Kuntz
Reviewed by Robert Duffer

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The Unfortunates

By B.S. Johnson
Original Pub Date: 1969; republished by New Directions: 5/1/2008
Reviewed by Paul M. Davis
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The Plan of Chicago: Daniel Burnham and the Remaking of the American City

A book by Carl Smith
Published by The University of Chicago Press
Reviewed by Robert Duffer
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Louis Armstrong’s New Orleans

A book by Thomas Brothers
Published by WW Norton
Reviewed by Paul M. Davis
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Carpentaria

Poetry by Alexis Wright
Published by Giramondo Publishing
Reviewed by Penelope McKimm
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The Uncomfortable Dead: A Novel in Four Hands
A book by Paco Ignacio Taibo II & Subcomandante Marcos
Reviewed by Ric Hess