Reviews 2007-2008

Autumn 2008

Non-Fiction

A Voyage Long and Strange by Tony Horwitz  |  Reviewed by Laura M. Browning

Taking on the Trust by Steve Weinberg  |  Reviewed by Thomas Larson

What I Talk About When I Talk About Running by Haruki Murakami &
Running and Philosophy edited by Michael W. Austin  |  Reviewed by David M. Smith

Fiction

Requiem, Mass. by John Dufresne  |  Reviewed by Frances Badgett

The God of War by Marisa Silver  |  Reviewed by Shaindel Beers

Awesome by Jack Pendarvis  |  Reviewed by Thea Brown

Netherland by Joseph O’Neill  |  Reviewed by Mike Frechette

Poetry

The Sphere of Birds by Ciaran Berry  |  Reviewed by Grace Wells

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Summer 2008

Non-Fiction

What Is Life? by Ed Regis  |  Reviewed by Thomas Larson

The Wild Places by Robert Macfarlane  |  Reviewed by Laura M. Browning

Poetry

Big Pink Umbrella by Susan Millar DuMars  |  Reviewed by Grace Wells

Little Boat by Jean Valentine  |  Reviewed by Shevi Berlinger

Fiction

Dervishes by Beth Helms  |  Reviewed by Frances Badgett

The Lazarus Project by Aleksandar Hemon  |  Reviewed by Gregory Byala

Knockemstiff by Donald Ray Pollock  |  Reviewed by Shaindel Beers

Lost Classics

Stop-Time by Frank Conroy  |  Renewed by David M. Smith

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Spring 2008

Non-Fiction

Reading Joyce by David Pierce  |  Reviewed by David M. Smith

The Windows of Brimnes by Bill Holm  |  Reviewed by Thomas Larson

The Last Flight of the Scarlet Macaw by Bruce Barcott | Reviewed by Laura Browning

Poetry

The Dark Age by James Harpur  |  Reviewed by Grace Wells

Blue and Red Things by Laura Solomon  |  Reviewed by Courtney MacNeil

Fiction

Surveillance by Jonathan Raban  |  Reviewed by Frances Badgett

Lost Classics

It Seems to Me by Heywood Broun  |  Renewed by Jeff McMahon

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2007

Lost Classics

Species of Spaces by Georges Perec  |  Renewed by David M. Smith

Poetry

At the Axis of Imponderables by Neil Carpathios | Reviewed by Shaindel Beers

The Boy in the Ring by Dave Lordan  |  Reviewed by Grace Wells

Complicated Pleasures by Billy Ramsell  |  Reviewed by Grace Wells

Waterlight by Kathleen Jamie  |  Reviewed by Shaindel Beers

Non-Fiction

Staying Up Much Too Late by Gordon Theisen  |  Reviewed by Laura M. Browning 

Forging Fame by Craig Abbott  |  Reviewed by Thomas Larson

Museum: Behind the Scenes at the Met by Danny Danziger | Reviewed by Laura Browning

Eat, Pray, Love by Elizabeth Gilbert  |  Reviewed by David M. Smith

The Story of French by Jean-Benoît Nadeau & Julie Barlow  |  Reviewed by Jeff McMahon

Fiction

The Bad Girl by Mario Vargas-Llosa  |  Reviewed by Frances Badgett

Petropolis by Anya Ulinich  |  Reviewed by Shevi Berlinger

What I Was by Meg Rosoff  |  Reviewed by Linda Smith

Exit Ghost by Philip Roth  |  Reviewed by Mike Frechette

Refresh, Refresh by Benjamin Percy  |  Reviewed by Michael Andrews

Bridge of Sighs by Richard Russo  |  Reviewed by Thea Brown

The Septembers of Shiraz by Dalia Sofer  |  Reviewed by M. Leigh Knittle

Diary of a Bad Year by J.M. Coetzee  |  Reviewed by Jeff McMahon

Later, At the Bar: A Novel in Stories by Rebecca Barry  |  Reviewed by Shevi Berlinger

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