Minimalisms
Volume 33, Number 4
May-June 2012
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Jeffrey A. Sartain’s “Introduction to Focus: Minimalisms”
Ayala Amir reviews Gordon Lish’s Collected Fictions
Jeff Wallace reviews Melinda Moustakis’s Bear Down, Bear North: Alaska Stories
Monica Drake reviews Diane Williams’s Vicky Swanky Is a Beauty
Jeff Ludwig reviews Justin Sirois’s Falcons on the Floor
Micah Ling reviews Tao Lin’s Shoplifting from American Apparel
Feature: Memoirs
Barry Wallenstein reviews Ellen Schecter’s Fierce Joy
Duane Niatum reviews David Treuer’s Rez Life: An Indian’s Journey Through Reservation Life
Tracy McCabe reviews Renée E. D’Aoust Body of a Dancer
Book Reviews
A. J. Ortega reviews Rolando Hinojosa-Smith’s A Voice of My Own
John Tytell reviews Ed Sanders’s Fug You
Susan Azar Porterfield reviews Hedy Habra’s Flying Carpets
Joseph D. Haske reviews Richard Burgin’s Shadow Traffic
Paul Oppenheimer reviews Annie Boutelle’s This Caravaggio
C. W. Cannon reviews Moira Crone’s The Not Yet
Jonathan Edward reviews F. D. Reeve’s Nathaniel Purple
Elizabeth Searle reviews Caroline Picard’s Psycho Dream Factory
Liana Vrajitoru Andreason reviews Dumitru Tsepeneag; Patrick Camiller (trans.) in Hotel Europa
Jensen Beach reviews Michael Griffith’s Trophy
Abby Nance reviews Myfanwy Collins’s Echolocation
Jason Jordan reviews Charles Dodd White’s Sinners of Sanction County
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