Top 40 Bad Books
Volume 31, Number 2
January-February 2010
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Introduction to Focus: Top 40 Bad Books
Feature: Contemporary European Fiction
Myrdene Anderson reviews Kerstin Ekman and trans. Linda Schenck’s God’s Mercy
Jeff Bursey reviews Mati Unt and trans. Ants Eert’s Diary of a Blood Donor
Book Reviews
Laird Hunt reviews Donald Breckenridge’s You Are Here
Kass Fleisher reviews Akilah Oliver’s A Toast in the House of Friends
Yevgeniya Traps reviews Philip Roth’s The Humbling
Alexis Pauline Gumbs reviews ed. Joseph Beam’s In the Life: A Black Gay Anthology
Jim Ruland reviews Edward Falco’s Saint John of the Five Boroughs
Vilmos Voigt reviews William Marderness’s How to Read a Myth
Jonathan Liebson reviews Skip Horack The Southern Cross
Christine Granados reviews Stephen D. Gutierrez’s Live from Fresno y Los
Mark Wallace reviews Davis Schneiderman’s DIS (or, The Shadow of the Dome of Pleasure)
Matt Bell reviews Jim Tomlinson’s Nothing Like an Ocean
CL Bledsoe reviews Dick Lourie’s If the Delta Was the Sea
Frank Giampietro reviews Lucille Clifton’s Voices
Matthew Brennan reviews Jerry Bradley’s The Importance of Elsewhere
Haines Eason reviews Kiki Petrosino’s Fort Red Border
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