In and Out Books
Volume 32, Number 5
July-August 2011
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Introduction to Focus: Who’s In? Who’s Out?”
Feature: Tomorrowland Fictions
Lydia Netzer reviews Janice Lee’s Daughter
Kim Chinquee reviews Amelia Gray’s Museum of the Weird
Davis Schneiderman reviews William Gillespie’s Keyhole Factory
Feature: Into the Wild
John Stazinski reviews Alan Heathcock’s Volt
Joseph D. Haske reviews Ron Cooper’s Purple Jesus
Ryan Stone reviews Andrea Fekete’s Waters Run Wild
Book Reviews
Stephen Burn reviews David Foster Wallace’s The Pale King
Matthew Kirkpatrick reviews Stephen-Paul Martin’s Changing the Subject
Maggie Schwed reviews Paul Oppenheimer’s In Times of Danger
Matt Baker reviews Ben Tanzer’s You Can Make Him Like You
Paula Koneazny reviews Kate Tarlow Morgan’s Circles & Boundaries
C.W. Cannon reviews David Bajo’s Panopticon
Mike Ingram reviews Benjamin Percy’s The Wilding
Daniels S. Libman reviews Alan Michael Parker’s Whale Man
Kirby Olson reviews Todd F. Tietchen’s The Cubalogues: Beat Writers in Revolutionary Havana
Melanie Page reviews Elise Blackwell’s An Unfinished Score
John Domini reviews Tina May Hall’s The Physics of Imaginary Objects
Brad Vice reviews David Madden’s Abducted by Circumstance
Gina Frangello reviews Francine Prose’s My New American Life
Jeff Bursey reviews Chris Benjamin’s Drive-By Saviours
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