Micropresses
Volume 31, Number 4
May-June 2010
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Ted Pelton’s “Introduction to Focus: A Company of Companies: Essential Micropress Reading”
“Essential Micropress Reading: The Publishers”
Action Books (Joyelle McSweeney and Johannes Göransson)
Belladonna Books (Rachel Levitsky)
BlazeVOX [books] (Geoffrey Gatza)
Chiasmus Press (Lidia Yuknavitch)
Counterpath Press (Julie Carr and Tim Roberts)
Fairy Tale Review Press (Kate Bernheimer)
Les Figues Press (Vanessa Place and Teresa Carmody)
Mud Luscious Press (J. A. Tyler)
Other Voices Books (Gina Frangello)
Feature: Jewish Identity
Abby Nance reviews Norah Labiner’s German for Travelers: A Novel in 95 Lessons
Doris Barkin reviews Walter Hess’s Jew’s Harp
Book Reviews
Mary Pettice reviews Eula Biss’s Notes from No Man’s Land: American Essays
F. D. Reeve reviews Keith Waldrop’s Transcendental Studies: A Trilogy
Mike Ingram reviews Larry Fondation’s Unintended Consequences
Heather Treseler reviews Jacque Vaught Brogan’s ta(l)king eyes
Matt Kavanagh reviews Mark C. Taylor’s Field Notes from Elsewhere: Reflections on Dying and Living
Brad Vice reviews W. D. Wetherell’s Hills Like White Hills
Kathryn Pratt Russell reviews Farrah Field’s Rising and Terese Svoboda’s Weapons Grade
D. Matthew Ramsey reviews Emilie Bickerton’s A Short History of Cahiers du Cinéma
Laurel Blossom reviews Rusty Morrison’s the true keeps calm biding its story
Dinda L. Gorlée reviews Juri Lotman’s Culture and Explosion
Marilyne Bertoncini reviews Emmanuel Moses’s He and I
John Domini reviews Sam Savage’s Cry of the Sloth
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