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Pif Magazine
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Banned Artists Move Online, a news brief from Reuters (Wired) David Sedaris’ Me Talk Pretty One Day in RealAudio (Salon) Rilke: Four Poems of Loss, trans. from the German by Elizabeth Knies (archipelago) April Bernard reviews Yusef Komunyakaa’s Talking Dirty to the Gods (NYTBR) Martin Rutley’s hypertext Driver Error (Born Magazine)
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 months of winter and spring 2001. Please keep in mind that book release dates are nebulous. These books may be placed on bookstore shelves sooner or later than the dates listed. Enjoy! The Breath of Parted Lips: Voices from the Robert Frost Place (CavanKerry Press). Contributors include: Julie Agoos, Sharon Bryan, Robert Cording, Mark Cox, John Engels, Kathy Fagan, David Graham, Robert Haas, Donald Hall, Mark Halliday, Denis Johnson, Cleopatra Mathis, William Matthews, Gary Miranda, Stanley Plumly, Katha Politt, Pattiann Rogers, Mary Rueffle, Mary Jo Salter, Sherod Santos, Jeffrey Skinner, Luci Tapahonso, Sue Ellen Thompson, and Rosanna, Gilbert, and Christopher Warren. [expected any day] Barnes, Julian: Love, Etc. (Knopf). The New York Times Book Review describes his work as, "An interplay of serious thought and dazzling wit… It’s moving, it’s funny, it’s frightening… fiction at its best." [expected 03/01] Cox, Elizabeth: Bargains in the Real World : 13 Stories (Random House). Her first collection of stories. Check out her brief essay in Pif on Richard Yates. [expected 3/01] Delillo, Don: Body Artist : A Novel (Scribner). The National Book Award winner's latest. [expected 2/01] Doty, Mark: Still Life With Oysters and Lemon: On Objects and Intimacy (Beacon Press). A mature, technically astute poet, Doty takes on death, beauty, and relationships with a perspective both compassionate and unsentimental. [expected 01/01] Grant, J. Kerry: A Companion to V. (Univ of Georgia Press). Thomas Pynchon's V can be daunting for the uninitiated and initiated alike. Dr. Grant, an English professor at St. Lawrence University, has written a companion book that clarifies and interprets Pynchon's many allusions by drawing on existing critical work. [expected 12/00] Henderson, Bill (Ed.): The Pushcart Book of Short Stories: The Best Stories from a Quarter-Century of the Pushcart Prize (W.W. Norton & Company). [expected 03/01] Johnson, Denis: Seek: Reports from the Edges of America and Beyond (Harpercollins). Michiko Kakutani said Johnson has a "dazzling gift for poetic language, [a] natural instinct for metaphor and wordplay." Here’s his latest. [expected 03/01] Krouse, Erika: Come Up and See Me Sometime (Scribner). Read one of her short stories at The Atlantic Unbound. [expected 05/01] Miranda, Gary: Turning Sixty (Zoland Books). Sixty previously unpublished poems collected from his last twenty years of writing. [expected 04/01] Milosz, Czeslaw (author), and Robert Haas (translator): Treatise on Poetry (Ecco Press). [expected 04/01] Moody, Rick: Demonology (Little Brown & Company). Journals frequently name Moody as one of the most important young writers of modern letters. Count on him for excessive energy, wicked detail, and real brilliance. Read his interview in Pif. [expected 01/01] O’Nan, Stewart: Everyday People (Grove Press). Selected by Granta as one of America’s Best Young Novelists, O’Nan’s award-winning fiction has been hailed by critics for its incisive language and acutely drawn characters – this book is one of his best. [expected 03/01] Skinner, Jeffrey (ed.), and Lee Martin (ed.): Passing the Word (Sarabande Books). The authors of this anthology use stories, poems, and essays to describe the roles of mentors in their development as writers. [expected 07/01] Steffen, Therese: Crossing Color : Transcultural Space and Place in Rita Doves' Poetry, Fiction, and Drama (Oxford Univ Press). A sharp critical study of this poet. [expected 12/00] Swigart, Rob: Down Time (Eastgate Systems). A stunning new hypertext. "Swigart is a serious, accessible, intelligent… writer who deserves to be more widely known." –Newsday [available now] Williams, Joy: Ill Nature: Meditations on Humanity and Other Animals (The Lyons Press). Harold Brodkey said, "Joy Williams is now the most gifted writer of her generation." These are her collected essays. Check out Pif’s review of her short story collection, Taking Care. [expected 01/01] 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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