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MAY 2009

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Books

Anthology: A Lot To Live Up To

by Paul Charles Griffin

Books

The writing coming out of Africa today has an unparalleled urgency.

Fiction: Greater World Systems

by J.W. McCormack

Books

Books draw on books to get themselves written and this can be a problem.

Nonfiction: Correspondence From The Struggle

by Win Clevenger

Books

The kernel of a great book in Letters From Black America is clear in its first five entries, heart-rending letters by slaves to the loved ones they had been sold away from.

Fiction: Constraints Of Quirk

by Jon Curley

Books

Quirk has become a mainstay of contemporary fiction and also something of a malady.

Memoir: Remix

by Ben Mirov

Books

Cheeni Rao’s In Hanuman’s Hands is a fictional memoir that treads familiar ground with various nuances that set it apart from its precursors.

Fiction: Telling No Tall Tales About Africa

by Anis Shivani

Books

There are at least four kinds of stories in this extremely rewarding collection

Rapid Transit

by Jeffrey Cyphers Wright

Books

At 21, Jack Spicer joined Kenneth Rexroth’s inner sanctum in San Francisco.

Tokens

by Dan Fall, Dan Fall, and Renee E. D'Aoust

Books

Takes us into the heart of political influence on civilian life in Morocco, exploring issues of sexuality, ambition, religion, love, and family.

 

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