Book blogs
Volume 33, Number 5
July-August 2012
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Brian Allen Carr’s Introduction to Focus: Book Blogs
Matthew Vollmer reviews HTMLGIANT
Mike Meginnis reviews NewPages
Salvatore Pane reviews The Millions
Ethel Rohan reviews The Rumpus
Shane Jones reviews The Nervous Breakdown
Christopher Newgent reviews The Barking
Feature: Space and Place
Steven Wingate reviews Natalie Bakopoulos’s The Green Shore
Natalie Elliott reviews Michael Czyzniejewski’s Chicago Stories: 40 Dramatic Fictions
Andrew Mulvania reviews Neil Shepard’s (T)RAVEL/UN(T)RAVEL
David Rose reviews Edmond Caldwell’s Human Wishes/Enemy Combatant
Book Reviews
Heather Fowler reviews Roxanne Carter’s Glamorous Freak: How I Taught My Dress to Act
Charles B. Harris reviews John Barth’s Every Third Thought
Micah Ling reviews Tim Seibles’s Fast Animal
Aimee Parkison reviews Elizabeth Collins, ed. The Beautiful Anthology
John Tytell reviews Joyce Johnson’s The Voice Is All: The Lonely Victory of Jack Kerouac
Saara Myrene Raappana reviews Christopher Shipman’s Human-Carrying Flight Technology
Brad Vice reviews Peter Selgin’s Confessions of a Left-Handed Man: An Artist’s Memoir
Maria Damon reviews Cary Nelson, ed. The Oxford Handbook of Modern and Contemporary American Poetry
Laura Krughoff reviews Stacy Bierlein’s A Vacation on the Island of Ex-Boyfriends
Matt Baker reviews Jason Jordan’s The Dying Horse
C.J. Martin reviews Norma Cole’s Win These Posters and Other Unrelated Prizes Inside
Anne Derrig reviews Aimee Parkison’s The Innocent Party
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