Wanda Coleman, Jazz & Twelve O’Clock Tales, Black Sparrow Press (2008) Diane Williams, It Was Like My Trying to Have a Tender-Hearted Nature (FC2, 2007) Chavisa Woods, Love Does Not Make Me Gentle or Kind (Fly by Night Press, 2008)
Juliana Spahr, The Transformations (Atelos, 2007)

Blair Tindall, Mozart in the Jungle; Dovid Bergelson and Joachim Neugroschel, The Shadows of Berlin; Adam Fawer, Improbable; John Ashberry and Eugene Richie (ed.), Selected Prose

Tales by H. P. Lovecraft, A Garden by the Sea by Leila Hadley, Hello to All That by John Falk, Campo Santo by W. G. Sebald

Ah, what a world! How infinite in variety. How beautiful in diversity. How limitless in options.

The Jefferson Bible by Thomas Jefferson, with an introduction by Percival Everett;The Japan Journals by Donald Richie; February House by Sherill Tippins

Prins, Other People’s Money; Boyer, Kings & Queens; Dan Raeburn, Chris Ware; McCormick, Killing Bono; Stuever, Off Ramp; Elborn, Scream Queens of the Dead Sea

Mary V. Dearborn, Mistress of Modernism, Calderone; The Secret Life of the Lonely Doll Nathan; The Wasp Eater, Lychack; Ill-Equipped for a Life of Sex Lehr,

James Baldwin and Sol Stein, Native Sons; Anthony Lappé and Stephen Marshall, True Lies; Tsipi Keller, Jackpot; Yusef Komunyakaa, Taboo

George W. Bush and John Kerry: they share New England roots, Yale, and Skull & Bones. Is there nothing to separate the two?

Mahmood Mamdani, Good Muslim, Bad Muslim: America, the Cold War, and the Roots of Terror; Jim Tully, Beggars of Life: A Hobo Autobiography; Darcy Cosper, Wedding Season; A.S. Byatt, Little Black Book of Stories

Theodore Hamm (Editor): I’m digging Living to Tell the Tale, translated by Edith Grossman (Knopf), particularly for the magic of Marquez’s melancholy Marxism. The Five Biggest Lies Bush Told Us About Iraq (Seven Stories/ Akashic) is an excellent takedown by the Alternet crew. Matthew Sharpe’s new novel The Sleeping Father (Soft Skull) makes me feel the pain of growing up in Connecticut, even though I was raised elsewhere.

Martin Amis, Yellow Dog (Miramax Books, 2003)
Kaylie Jones, Speak Now (Akashic Books, 2003) Victoria Sanford, Buried Secrets: Truth and Human Rights in Guatemala, (Palgrave Macmillan, 2003) Bruce Schneier, Beyond Fear: Thinking Sensibly About Security in an Uncertain World (Copernicus Books, 2003) Lutz Kleveman, The New Great Game: Blood and Oil in Central Asia (Grove Atlantic, 2003) Mike Marqusee, Chimes of Freedom: The Politics of Bob Dylan’s Art (New Press, 2003) Hannah Higgins, Fluxus Experience, (University of California Press, 2003)