New American Studies
Volume 33, Number 1
November-December 2011
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Robert P. Marzec’s “Introduction to Focus: New Directions in New American Studies”
Daniel T. O’Hara reviews Donald E. Pease’s The New American Exceptionalism
George B. Handley reviews Rob Nixon’s Slow Violence and the Environmentalism of the Poor
Donald E. Pease reviews William V. Spanos’s The Legacy of Edward W. Said
Feature: Back Beat
John Tytell reviews Gordon Ball’s East Hill Farm: Seasons with Allen Ginsberg
Davis Schneiderman reviews William S. Burroughs’s Queer: 25th-Anniversary Edition
Debut Novels
David Holub reviews William Giraldi’s Busy Monsters
Anne Derrig reviews Z.K. Burrus’s Senestre on Vacation
xTx reviews Lavinia Ludlow’s alt.punk
Book Reviews
Robin Black reviews Andrew Scott’s Naked Summer
Christian Moraru reviews Chang-rae Lee’s The Surrendered
Marshall Yarbrough reviews Chris Bachelder’s Abbott Awaits
Ben Tanzer reviews Brian Allen Carr’s Short Bus
Jay Shearer reviews Michael Hemmingson’s Pictures of Houses with Water Damage
Daniel S. Libman reviews Michael Kimball’s Us
CL Bledsoe reviews Corey Mesler’s Before the Great Troubling
Melanie Page reviews Heather Fowler’s Suspended Heart
Dinda L. Gorlée reviews Annika Thor’s A Faraway Island
Ann Bogle reviews Molly Gaudry’s We Take Me Apart
Mike Krutel reviews Steve Kistulentz’s The Luckless Age
Renee Risher reviews Jennifer Tamayo’s Red Missed Aches Read Missed Aches Red Mistakes Read Mistakes
Monica Hooper reviews Jim Daniels’s (with Jane McCafferty) From Milltown to Malltown
Vilmos Voigt reviews Desmond Morris’s Owl
Departments
Page 2—Jeffrey R. Di Leo’s “Hide It from the Kids”
From Our Own—Alissa Nutting reviews Tom Williams’s The Mimic’s Own Voice
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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.
