Grade: D About the author: This is Zachary Mason’s first novel. This novel is a collection of alternate versions of…
A Common Pornography by Kevin Sampsell
About the author: Kevin Sampsell is the publisher of Future Tense Books, works at Portland, Oregon’s Powell’s Books, and has…
Boneshaker by Cherie Priest
About the author: Cherie Priest wrote the Eden Moore series of Southern Gothic ghost stories and lives in Seattle, Washington.…
Mr. Shivers by Robert Jackson Bennett
About the Author: Mr. Shivers, published by Orbit, is Bennett’s debut novel. He graduated from University of Texas- Austin and…
Best New American Voices 2010, Edited by Dani Shapiro
For the past ten years creative writing programs have submitted the best to come out of their programs to be…
The Russian Dreambook of Color and Flight by Gina Ochsner
Grade: B- About the Author: Gina Ochsner is the author of two collections of short stories, The People I Wanted…
Lean on Pete by Willy Vlautin
*I read an advance uncorrected proof copy of this novel. It is to be released April 2010. Grade: A About…
Do Not Deny Me by Jean Thompson
Grade: B About the author: Jean Thompson is the author of four novels and four collections of short stories. Do…
The 19th Wife by David Ebershoff
Grade: A- David Ebershoff is one of the few people who has really succeeded in his career. His name may…
what the world will look like when all the water leaves us by Laura van den Berg
Grade: C+ This is a collection of stories by Laura van den Berg, a writer whose talents, according to her…
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