The New South?
Volume 30, Number 1
November-December 2008
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Tom Williams’s “Introduction to Focus: The New South?”
C. D. Albin reviews John Pritchard’s The Yazoo Blues
John A. McDermott reviews Quinn Dalton’s Stories from the Afterlife
Catherine Calloway reviews Scott Ely’s The Dream of the Red Road
Abby Nance reviews Kate Betterton’s Where the Lake Becomes the River
Feature: Complex Identities
Feature: Poetry in Form
Adam Clay reviews Hadara Bar-Nadav’s A Glass of Milk to Kiss Goodnight
Frank Giampietro reviews Dean Young’s Primitive Mentor
Laura Longsong reviews Sarah Hannah’s Inflorescence
Book Reviews
Tom LeClair reviews Joseph O’Neill’s Netherland
Walter Hess reviews Pamela Laskin’s Remembering Fireflies and Lance Lee’s Human/Nature
Mark Best reviews Joe Brainard’s The Nancy Book
Steven G. Kellman reviews Jonathan Baumbach’s YOU, or The Invention of Memory
John Domini reviews Zachary Mason’s The Lost Books of the Odyssey
Anis Shivani reviews Gail Pool’s Faint Praise: The Plight of Book Reviewing in America
Reinhard Postelmann reviews Deborah Baker’s A Blue Hand: The Beats in India
George Williams reviews Richard Burgin’s The Conference on Beautiful Moments
Kelly Cherry reviews Anne Enright’s The Gathering
Karla Kelsey reviews eds. Christine Wertheim and Matias Viegener’s The noulipain Analects
Marilyne Bertoncini reviews Victor Segalen’s Stèles
Jeff Bursey reviews Marja-Liisa Vartio’s The Parson’s Widow
Departments
Page 2—Jeffrey R. Di Leo’s “The Big Dialogue”
From Our Own—Lynnell Edwards reviews Kevin Prufer’s National Anthem
LineOnLine—I Am Everyone I Meet, My Brother’s Madness, The Farringford Cadenza, Splinterville, Wide Awake in Someone Else’s Dream, and Where Things Are When You Lose Them
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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.
