Memoir Now
Volume 30, Number 3
Mar-April 2009
Excerpts available through Project Muse; full articles available to Project Muse subscribers.
Thomas Larson’s “Introduction to Focus: A New Kind of Narrative Truth”
DeWitt Henry reviews Melissa J. Delbridge’s Family Bible
Jocelyn Bartkevicius reviews Aaron Raz Link and Hilda Raz’s What Becomes You
David Prete reviews David Gilmour’s The Film Club: A Memoir
Joni Tevis reviews Larry Woiwode’s A Step from Death: A Memoir
David Lazar reviews Teresa Miller’s Means of Transit: A Slightly Embellished Memoir
Dale Rigby reviews William Davies King’s Collections of Nothing
Feature: Celebrating National Poetry Month
David Ray Vance reviews Stephanie Strickland’s Zone : Zero
Saara Myrene Raappana reviews C.D. Wright’s Rising, Falling, Hovering
Joseph D. Haske reviews Roberto Bolaño’s The Romantic Dogs
Book Reviews
Vanessa Place reviews Eugene Marten’s Waste
Yevgeniya Traps reviews Susan Sontag’s Reborn: Journals and Notebooks, 1947-1963
Christian Moraru reviews Dumitru Tsepeneag’s Pigeon Post
Neil D. Isaacs reviews Tom LeClair’s Passing Through
John Domini reviews Salvatore Scibona’s The End
Alicia Ostriker reviews Marilyn Krysl’s Dinner with Osama
Michael Wolfe reviews ed. ZZ Packer’s New Stories from the South: The Year’s Best, 2008
Kara Mason reviews Arkadii Dragomoshchenko’s Dust
Samuele F. S. Pardini reviews Geoffrey Green’s Voices in a Mask
Departments
Page 2-Jeffrey R. Di Leo’s “Green Books”
From Our Own-Joseph T. Thomas, Jr. reviews Doug Nufer’s We Were Werewolves
LineOnLine-Was: annales nomadique/a novel of internet, The Hotel of Irrevocable Acts, The Bruise, The Mirror in the Well, Deniability, Unexpected Guests, and House Held Together by Winds
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Charles Johnson reviewed Richard Wright's American Hunger in the inaugural issue of the American Book Review, Volume 1 , No. 1, December 1977.
