Books
In Conversation
LYNNE TILLMAN with Caroline Ball
Lynne Tillman is a rare hybrid of fiction writer, essayist, art critic, and teacher. She is the author of five novels, one of which was nominated for the National Book Critics Circle Award, as well as three collections of short stories, a collection of essays, and two other nonfiction works. Here she discusses experimentation, structure and her constant battle with language with Caroline Ball.
In Conversation
THE POWER OF SECOND
JOHAN HARSTAD with Ann Votaw
Norwegian author Johan Harstad wrote his first novel, Buzz Aldrin, What Happened to You in All The Confusion? against the background of artists like Beck and Radiohead. In fact, “background” takes a starring role in this story about a 30-something gardener/musician who moves to a halfway house after losing his job and girlfriend.
POETRY
The Gay Man Who Loved Women
By James Cihlar
Michael Montlack’s debut collection of poetry, Cool Limbo, is an urbane, cosmopolitan, and warm-hearted tribute to the teen queens who ruled his youth and the gay queens who nurtured his adult identity.
CRITICISM
Death Agents
By John Bengan
Looking into the public’s fraught, ambivalent relationship with news footage of people facing death, About To Die: How News Images Move the Public is a keenly argued volume on the power of images to stir debate over truth and decency.
COLLECTION
Madame Futurist
By Len Gutkin
Best known as a poet, the English-born writer Mina Loy (1882 – 1966) was one of the great, eccentric, and under-sung geniuses of cosmopolitan modernism.
FICTION
Smoke and Mirrors
By Randy Rosenthal
A period of confusion might follow after opening Ana Menéndez’s new book, Adios, Happy Homeland! The contents page lists what appear to be chapter titles. Yet the prologue is written by a Cubophile Irishman, Herberto Quain, and the first chapter is attributed to an author named Celestino D’Alba.
MEMOIR
The Serial Name-Dropper
By Ray Abernathy
Not to get gushy, but if you’re a writer, or want to be a writer, or just like to hang out around writers and pretend you’re a writer, then you’ll gobble up Bruce Jay Friedman’s literary memoir, Lucky Bruce.
BIOGRAPHY
Keeping Score
By Connie Aitcheson
In February 2006, the National Baseball Hall of Fame announced its intention to induct Alex Pompez—numbers king in Harlem; owner of the Cuban Stars, a Negro-League team; vice president of the Negro National League for two years; and the first Latino director of international scouting for any Major League Baseball team—into the organization, along with 16 others from the Negro-League era.
FICTION
Studio Portrait
By Mani Parcham
Lucas Zane is a retired war photojournalist turned porno photographer suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder. Melissa is a street-smart stripper and porn star trying to scrape her way out from under the indignities of the skin trade.
A Very Productive Season
By Nicolle ElizabethThe small presses are coming out swinging this fall, respectfully.
RAPID TRANSIT
Or A Fistful of Fulfilling Fall Books
By Jeffrey Cyphers Wright
Area 51 doesn’t officially exist. The military/intelligence operation is located in a cluster of test sites, target ranges, and spook headquarters half the size of Connecticut.
