New & Noteworthy Books
New Books from Independent &
University Presses
See full list of noteworthy books by category below
Posted on September 2, 2010
Baby
& other stories
Fiction by Paula Bomer
Word Riot Press, December 2010
ISBN-13: 978-0-9779343-7-9
Paperback: 176pp; $15.95
The short stories in Paula Bomer's debut collection are subversive portraits of the modern American family.
Birds for a Demolition
Poetry by Manoel de Barros
Translated from the Portuguese by Idra Novey
Carnegie Mellon Univ Press, September 2010
ISBN-13: 978-0-88748-523-7
Paperback: 96pp; $16.95
Birds for a Demolition [. . .] brings the vivid, surreal poetry of one of Brazil's most celebrated living poets, Manoel de Barros, into English for the first time.
The Cailiffs of Baghdad, Georgia
Fiction by Mary Helen Stefaniak
W.W. Norton & Co., September 2010
ISBN-13: 978-0-393-06310-3
Hardcover: 352pp; $24.95
Narrator Gladys Cailiff is eleven years old in 1938 when a new schoolteacher turns Threestep, Georgia, upside down. Miss Grace Spivey is a well-traveled young woman who believes in field trips, Arabian costumes, and reading aloud from her ten-volume set of One Thousand Nights and a Night. The real trouble begins when she decides to revive the annual town festival as an exotic Baghdad Bazaar. Miss Spivey and her project transform the lives of everyone around her. //
The Creative Writer's Survival Guide
Advice from an Unrepentant Novelist
Nonfiction by John McNally
Univ of Iowa Press, September 2010
ISBN-13: 978-1-58729-920-9
Paperback: 288pp; $19.95
McNally wrestles with writing degrees and graduate programs, the nuts and bolts of agents and query letters and critics, book signings and other ways to promote your book, alcohol and other home remedies, and jobs for writers from adjunct to tenure-track.
Death Obscura
Poetry by Rick Bursky
Sarabande Books, November 2010
ISBN-13: 978-1-932511-87-1
Paperback: 72pp; $14.95
A surreality that is lived in – populated by the death-obsessed, yet distracted by levity.
Reliquary Fever
New and Selected Poems
Poetry by Beckian Fritz Goldberg
New Issues Poetry & Prose, October 2010
ISBN-13: 978-1-930974-94-4
Paperback: 215pp; $18.00
Reliquary Fever: New and Selected Poems gathers the work of Beckian Fritz Goldberg, one of her generation’s premiere voices and its fiercest proponent of a free imagination.
Richard Yates
Fiction by Tao Lin
Melville House Pub, 2010
ISBN-13: 978-1-935554-15-8
Paperback: 202pp; $14.95
What constitutes illicit sex for a generation with no rules? In a startling change of direction, cult favorite Tao Lin presents a dark and brooding tale of illicit love.
New & Noteworthy Books
Full list of new & noteworthy books received
September 2, 2010
Anthology
hell strung and crooked, Uphook Press //
In the Silence of this Room, Ed. Diane Smith,Grey Sparrow Press //
Chapbook
faster, faster, Stephanie Balzer, Cue Editions
Children's/YA Fiction
The Kid Cyclone Fights the Devil and Other Stories, Xavier Garza, Arte Publico Press
Fiction
Baby, Paula Bomer, Word Riot Press
The Cailiffs of Baghdad, Georgia, Mary Helen Stefaniak, W.W. Norton & Co //
Dogs, Abigail DeWitt, Lorimer Press //
Nine Simple Patterns for Complicated Women, Mary Rechner, Propeller Books //
Richard Yates, Tao Lin, Melville House Pub
Unclean Jobs for Women and Girls, Alissa Nutting, Starcherone Books //
Nonfiction
Chaucer's Canterbury Comedies: Origins and Originality, Peter G. Beidler, Coffeetown Press //
The Creative Writer's Survival Guide, John McNally, Univ of Iowa Press
Sacred Ground & Holy Water, Lyn Fuchs, Coffeetown Press //
Poetry
Birds for a Demolition, Manoel de Barros, Carnegie Mellon Univ Press
Death Obscura, Rick Bursky, Sarabande Books
Grief Suite, Bobbi Lurie, CW Books //
Mosquito Operas, Philip Dacey, Rain Mountain Press //
Reliquary Fever, Beckian Fritz Goldberg, New Issues Poetry & Prose
Page updated November 10, 2010