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Pif Magazine
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April Gornik’s interview with Marsha Norman (Bomb Magazine) Dennis Loy Johnson’s essay, "Literate Bullies" on the Billy Collins scandal (Salon.com) Dale Ray Phillips’ short story, "Haw River Cosmology" (Zoetrope: All-Story) Charles Simic’s poem, "Night Picnic" (The Boston Review)
Here’s a short list of what I consider to be the best e-books, hypertexts, and print books expected to be released by publishers in the summer and fall months of 2000. Please keep in mind that book release dates are nebulous. These books may be placed on bookstore shelves sooner or later than the dates I’ve listed. Enjoy! Bender, Aimee: An Invisible Sign of My Own (Doubleday). Author’s first novel after her widely acclaimed debut collection of short stories, The Girl in the Flammable Skirt. Read her interview on Pif. [expected 7/00] Bennett, Barbara: Understanding Jill McCorkle (Univ of South Carolina Press). Promises to be an insightful critical study of this Southerner’s fiction. [expected 7/00] Dove, Rita (Ed.) and David Lehman (Series Ed.): The Best American Poetry 2000 (Scribner). A "truly memorable anthology." –Chicago Tribune [expected 9/00] Earley, Tony: Jim the Boy (Little Brown and Co.). From the author of Here We Are in Paradise: Stories comes a debut novel that "shines with all we’ve come to expect from his fine stories: graceful prose, gentle wit, compassionate spirit. This novel beautifully captures those moments in childhood that will shape and forever call back to Jim the man. I don’t know when I’ve met such an endearing cast of characters. May they live a long, long life." – Jill McCorkle [expected 6/00] Grossman, David and Laurie Bauman Arnold: Freddi Fish the Big Froople Match (Humongous Entertainment). This small children’s book is a must have for all Grossman fans. It is one of six books to be published together by these authors. [expected 8/00] Johnson, Denis: The Name of the World (Harpercollins). Read the first chapter of his last novel, Already Dead: A California Gothic (must apply for FREE membership at NYT to enter their site). [expected 7/00] Lessing, Doris: Ben, in the World : The Sequel to The Fifth Child (Harpercollins). Her earlier novel, The Fifth Child, was called "a horror story of maternity and the nightmare of social collapse . . . a moral fable of the genre that includes Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein and George Orwell’s 1984" (NYT). [expected 8/00] Saunders, George: Pastoralia (Riverhead Books). My favorite stories since Julia Slavin’s debut. Saunders’ second collection uses a seemingly unreal, futuristic world to explore the emotions and dilemmas of the real. With a humorous, straight-on voice like no other author, he warms us to indecisive, eccentric losers. [published 5/00] Steffen, Therese: Crossing Color : Transcultural Space and Place in Rita Doves' Poetry, Fiction, and Drama (Oxford Univ Press). [expected 12/00] Williams, Joy: The Quick and the Dead (Knopf). Harold Brodkey has called her "the most gifted writer of her generation." Raymond Carver said, "Joy Williams is simply a wonder." In her novels and short stories, collected in the volumes Taking Care and Escapes, she has, as William Gass said, "put each piece together the way it should be… Pure, Perfect, Precise, Poetic." Finally - her long awaited new novel. [expected 9/00] Tell us what you think. Email talkback@pifmagazine.com Want Pif to review your book? Camille Renshaw is the Editor-in-Chief for Pif Magazine. |
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