Publishers Weekly articles from January 2010

Publishers Weekly archives from January 2010

Reading holds on in new media age: cellphones are now an established media platform, survey finds.(Foreword)(Statistical data)
January 25, 2010... Driven by increased popularity of mobile and online media, overall media consumption by the 8-18-year-old demographic has exploded over the past five years, according to a study released last week by the Kaiser Family Foundation. The average...

Stead takes Newbery, Pinkney Caldecott.(2010 Newbery Medal winner Rebecca Stead and 2010 Randolph Caldecott Medal winner Jerry Pinkney)(Brief article)
January 25, 2010... Rebecca Stead won the 2010 Newbery Medal for When You Reach Me (Random/ Wendy Lamb), and Jerry Pinkney was named the 2010 Randolph Caldecott Medal winner for The Lion & the Mouse (Little, Brown). The Michael L. Printz Award went to Libba...

New Amazon digital initiatives.(expansion of the Amazon Kindle e-book reader's capabilities)(Brief article)
January 25, 2010... Last week Amazon announced an initiative to expand the Kindle's capabilities by extending its offer for creators to upload and sell content in the Kindle Store to software developers. For two years, the company has allowed authors and publishers...

What's next for borders?(Holiday Blues)(Borders Group's holiday sales)
January 25, 2010... The dismal holiday sales reported by Borders Group last Monday were a disappointment to both the retailer and publishers. In explaining weak third-quarter results in November, Borders CEO Ron Marshall said part of the reason was that the chain...

AAP November sales report.(Foreword)(Association of American Publishers)(Statistical table)(Brief article)
January 25, 2010... AAP November Sales Report % CHANGE % CHANGE CATEGORY November YTD Adult Hard (17) * 26.9% 6.7% Adult Paper (19) -3.0 -4.8 Mass Market (9) -9.8 -1.1...

BookLocker, Amazon settle.(antitrust class action lawsuit)(Brief article)
January 25, 2010... BookLocker and Amazon have reached a settlement in the antitrust class action lawsuit BookLocker filed against the e-tailer in 2008. The suit was in response to a decision by Amazon to make all print-on-demand publishers use its BookSurge (now...

New Digital units at HC.(formation of HarperCollins Digital and Digital Technology Services group)(Brief article)
January 25, 2010... HarperCollins has formed HarperCollins Digital, a unit that will use digital strategies to market titles and extend the reach of its authors online, and the Digital Technology Services group, which will provide technical support for HC's digital...

Augustus Publishing speaks hip-hop.(Street Lit)(popularity of street literature)
January 25, 2010... Despite its critics, street or urban lit continues to attract readers as well as entrepreneurs looking to produce books aimed at an audience interested in action, crime, and urban style. Launched in 2005 by a designer and a writer, Augustus...

Steinbeck backs Google deal.(Gail Steinbeck)(Brief article)
January 25, 2010... Gail Steinbeck, whose initial opposition led to the first delay of the Google settlement's fairness hearing, said she supports the revised Google agreement. "While we continue in our belief that what Google did was an imperious act of copyright...

Gortner goes to Ballantine ... and SMP.(Deals)(C.W. Gortner's works published by Ballantine Books Inc. and St. Martin's Press Inc.)(Brief article)
January 25, 2010... Jennifer Weltz at Jean V. Naggar Literary closed two deals, at two different houses, for author C.W. Gortner; both deals, per the agency, were for "strong five-figure" sums. Susanna Porter at Ballantine acquired world English rights to Gortner's...

Crow's cancer diet.(Deals)(musician and cancer survivor Sheryl Crow's cookbook)(Brief article)
January 25, 2010... Kathryn Huck, executive editor at St. Martin's Press, took U.S. and Canadian rights to a cookbook from musician, and cancer survivor, Sheryl Crow. Crow, who was diagnosed with breast cancer in 2006, revamped her approach to food and consulted a...

Loving Jane.(Deals)(Cindy Jones' book for Jane Austen fans called 'I'll Find You in Mansfield Park')(Brief article)
January 25, 2010... Avon's Lucia Macro bought North American rights, at auction, to Cindy Jones's debut, I'll Find You in Mansfield Park. Laura Rennert at Andrea Brown Literary closed the deal for the book about a woman who, after her mother dies, her boyfriend...

Europa nabs British backlister.(Deals)(Europa Edition's acquisition of the rights to the Jane Gardam novel 'God on the Rocks')(Brief article)
January 25, 2010... In a deal for a backlist British almost-prizewinner, Europa Editions has acquired U.S. rights to the 1978 coming-of-age novel God on the Rocks by Jane Gardam. Never published in the States, the book, which was shortlisted for the Booker Prize...

From Bataan to Bellevue.(Deals)(Henry Holt and Company's deal with 'Tears in the Darkness' writers Elizabeth and Michael Norman)(Brief article)
January 25, 2010... Steve Rubin at Henry Holt took North American rights to a new narrative nonfiction book about Bellevue Hospital by Elizabeth and Michael Norman, authors of the bestselling book on the Bataan death march, Tears in the Darkness (FSG, 2009). The...

Briefs.(Deals)(Hawthorne Books' deal with writer Lidia Yuknavitch)(Brief article)
January 25, 2010... The Portland, Ore., indie Hawthorne Books has signed a two-book deal with Lidia Yuknavitch for a memoir called The Chronology of Water and a novel, Small Backs of Children. Co-publisher Rhonda Hughes acquired world English and translation rights...

Courier quarter up.(Courier Corp.'s revenue)(Brief article)
January 25, 2010... Total revenue at Courier Corp. increased 6%, to $63.1 million in the quarter ended December 26, its first period of fiscal 2010. Net in. come jumped to $2.8 million from $703,000. Revenue in the manufacturing group increased 8%, to $54.8...

New test prep unit at Barron's.(Barron's Educational Series Inc. Test Preparation division)(Brief article)
January 25, 2010... Barron's has broken out its test prep imprint into a separate division and named Bob O'Sullivan, currently managing editor, publisher of the Test Preparation division beginning February 1. O'Sullivan will assume all managerial responsibility for...

Lost symbol on top.(Selling Abroad)
January 25, 2010... As expected, The Lost Symbol debuted on top of the French fiction bestseller lists last month when the Dan Brown novel was finally released there, and the title is at the top on a number of other European markets as well. In France, Brown's...

Comics drive growing Japanese E-book market.(Trends Abroad)(Industry overview)
January 25, 2010... If you'd stepped aboard a Japanese subway train 15 years ago, you'd have witnessed passengers engrossed in hefty, telephone directory--thick manga comic books. Today, you are more likely to see commuters of all ages peering intently into their...

Hultenschmidt promoted.(People)(Dorchester Publishing's new editorial director leah Hultenschmidt)(Brief article)
January 25, 2010... Dorchester Publishing promoted Leah Hultenschmidt to the position of editorial director, filling the position recently held by Alicia Condon, who left for Kensington Publishing. Hultenschmidt has directed the publicity and promotions department,...

Johnson rises at S&S Australia.(People)(Lou Johnson as managing director in Simon & Schuster Australia)(Brief article)
January 25, 2010... Lou Johnson has been promoted to managing director at Simon & Schuster Australia. Johnson has been with the company since July 2008 as sales and marketing director. The announcement is part of a realignment of S&S's international...

Mary Williams, Skylight Books, Los Angeles, Calif.(Galley Talk)('The Silver Hearted')(Brief article)(Book review)
January 25, 2010... David McConnell's The Silver Hearted (Alyson Books, Feb.) brims with an old-fashioned sense of adventure. A narrator attempts to smuggle a load of silver coins--not his own, which makes their potential loss all the more frightening--from one...

Nicolajsen up at Kensington.(People)(new digital content manager Alex Nicolajsen)(Brief article)
January 25, 2010... Alex Nicolajsen has been promoted from assistant to Kensington publisher Steven Zacharius to digital content manager, working on promotions on social networking sites.

Corrections.(People)(Correction notice)
January 25, 2010... In the January 4 Deals column, the deal for Carolyn Cooke's novel Daughters of the Revolution was credited to agent Linda Chester. Laurie Fox, who works at the Linda Chester Agency, did the deal. In the January 18 issue, Randy Wayne White's...

Children's series and tie-ins bestsellers.
January 25, 2010... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Next month, Percy Jackson makes the jump from print to the big screen. Based on the first book in Rick Riordan's series, the film arrives in theaters on February 12, with an all-star cast that includes Pierce Brosman,...

Hardcover bestsellers/fiction.
January 25, 2010... The First Rule (copies in print: 169,400) is Crais's second book to elevate the megapopular Joe Pike to star status ("A Joe Pike Novel"), and the author's first book for Putnam. A three-week, 15-market tour launched with capacity events at...

Hardcover bestsellers/nonfiction.
January 25, 2010... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] The Full Plate Diet marks the first appearance on our lists by Austin, Tex.-based Bard Press--and it's a real success story. Last July, six months before pub date, Bard distributed 20,000 galley copies to readers across...

Paperback bestsellers/mass market.
January 25, 2010... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] "In this taut, suspenseful SF thriller from bestseller Child, an obscure scientific expedition in Alaska's remote Federal Wilderness Zone stumbles on the frozen body of what appears to be a saber-tooth tiger in a cave,...

Paperback bestsellers/trade.
January 25, 2010... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] There's a new marketing campaign--aka party time--afoot at St. Martin's. As explained by SMP publicity manager Stephen Lee, "On January 30, we're organizing (through Kristin Hannah's Celebrate Our Stories House Party)...

Audio bestsellers/fiction.
January 25, 2010... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Ever wonder how Sue Grafton got her start? In an interview with Writers Write, she revealed that her fans should thank her ex-husband. While enduring a bitter divorce and six-year custody battle, Grafton lay awake...

Audio bestsellers/nonfiction.
January 25, 2010... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Michael Conroy, the producer who worked with Palin on the Going Rogue audio, praises her performance to PW, saying, "The Gov turned out to be a great audiobook reader and very adept at bringing the voice of her book to...

The 2009 cuffies.(Children's Books)
January 25, 2010... For our annual "Off the Cuff" awards, we asked booksellers around the country for their picks in a variety of categories. The winners (and selected comments) appear below. Favorite Picture Book of the Year The Lion & the Mouse by Jerry...

Is the time right for consignment sales? True consignment model gaining some traction.(Retail Nation)
January 25, 2010... Most books industry experts agree that the publisher-bookseller model needs fixing. The only question is, how? Up until now most of the dialogue has focused on selling nonreturnable. "It doesn't seem healthy to get 40% returns," says...

Startups for Spring.(First Fiction)(Book review)
January 25, 2010... As usual, we highlight 10 promising fiction debuts for our seasonal announcement issue. Among the protagonists: a husband who can't live with--or without--his wife, a divorcee who finds happiness at 35,000 feet, a young man who struggles to...

Spring 2010 hardcovers.(Cover story)
January 25, 2010... This publishing season kicks off a new decade--and things may never be the same. In the following 60 pages, you will find hardcover books from commercial houses, university presses, and small independents taking center stage. When this decade...

War story.(Author Profile)(Chang-Rae Lee)
January 25, 2010... Chang-Rae Lee, 44, spent a long time writing The Surrendered, his fourth novel, due out from Riverhead (the publisher of all his books) this March. He began writing it after he finished his first book, PEN/Hemingway winner Native Speaker (1995),...

Private Life.(Brief article)(Book review)
January 25, 2010... Private Life Jane Smiley. Knopf, $26.95 (320p) ISBN 978-1-4000-4060-5 The Pulitzer Prize-winning author of A Thousand Acres delivers a slow-moving historical antiromance in her bleak 13th novel. In the early 1880s, Margaret Mayfield is...

Witz.(Brief article)(Book review)
January 25, 2010... Witz Joshua Cohen. Dalkey Archive, $18.95 paper (824p) ISBN 978-1-56478-588-6 An extravagant poeticism combined with an unbridled imagination burst from each considerable page of Cohen's futuristic biblical opus (after A Heaven of Others)....

The Line.(Brief article)(Book review)
January 25, 2010... The Line Olga Grushin. Putnam/Marian Wood, $25.95 (304p) ISBN 978-0-399-15616-8 At one point in Grushin's disappointing follow-up to The Dream Life of Sukhanov, it is observed that standing on a line is "a very efficient way of disposing...

Imperfect Birds.(Brief article)(Book review)
January 25, 2010... * Imperfect Birds Anne Lamott. Riverhead, $25.95 (288p) ISBN 978-1-59448-751-4 Rosie Ferguson, the young heroine of Lamott's Rosie and Crooked Little Heart, almost succumbs to the drug culture in this unsparing look at teenagers and...

Reckless.(Brief article)(Book review)
January 25, 2010... Reckless Andrew Gross. Morrow, $25.99 (352p) ISBN 978-0-06-165595-1 Former police detective Ty Hauck, now a partner in a worldwide security company, displays his usual bulldog tenacity in bestseller Gross's sketchily plotted third Ty Hauck...

Of Flesh and Blood.(Brief article)(Book review)
January 25, 2010... Of Flesh and Blood Daniel Kalla. Forge, $25.99 (448p) ISBN 978-0-7653-2141-1 Emergency-room physician Kalla's latest novel (after Cold Plague) is a medical, historical, and family drama set at the fictional Alfredson Medical Center, a...

Bite Me: A Love Story.(Brief article)(Book review)
January 25, 2010... Bite Me: A Love Story Christopher Moore. Morrow, $23.99 (320p) ISBN 978-0-06-177972-5 A vampire cat is stalking San Francisco in Moore's serviceable latest comic horror adventure (after You Suck), and the only humans who can take him down...

Horns.(Brief article)(Book review)
January 25, 2010... Horns Joe Hill. Morrow, $25.99 (384p) ISBN 978-0-06-114795-1 In bestseller Hill's compulsively readable supernatural thriller, his second after Heart-Shaped Box, dissolute Ignatius Perrish wakes up one morning to find a pair of satanic...

Caught.(Brief article)(Book review)
January 25, 2010... Caught Harlan Coben. Dutten, $27.95 (416p) ISBN 978-0-525-95158-2 Bestseller Coben (Hold Tight) has a knack for taking everyday nightmares and playing with life's endless "what ifs," as shown in this stand-alone thriller, a tightly...

Angelology.(Brief article)(Book review)
January 25, 2010... * Angelology Danielle Trussoni. Viking, $27.95 (454p)ISBN 978-0-670-02147-5 A covert age-old war between angels and humans serves as the backdrop for Trussoni's gripping tale of supernatural thrills and divine destinies. Sister Evangeline,...

Expiration Date.(Brief article)(Book review)
January 25, 2010... Expiration Date Duane Swierczynski. Minotaur, $13.99 paper (224p) ISBN 978-0-312-36340-6 In this workmanlike time travel thriller from Swierczynski (Severance Package), 37-year-old Mickey Wade, a struggling journalist who's lost his job...

No More Heroes: A Cal Innes Novel.(Brief article)(Book review)
January 25, 2010... No More Heroes: A Cal Innes Novel Ray Banks. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, $25 (272p) ISBN 978-0-15-101459-0 Cal Innes matches wits (and fists) with a nasty bunch of neo-Nazis in British author Banks's solid third novel featuring the...

False Mermaid.(Brief article)(Book review)
January 25, 2010... * False Mermaid Erin Hart. Scribner, $26 (336p) ISBN 978-1-4165-6376-1 [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] As in Hart's Haunted Ground and Lake of Sorrows, the bittersweet Celtic other-world haunts her outstanding third tale of family sorrows...

What Is This Thing Called Love?(Brief article)(Book review)
January 25, 2010... What Is This Thing Called Love? Gene Wilder. St. Martin's, $19.99 (176p) ISBN 978-0-312-59890-7 The much beloved star of Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory delivers less than his best in his third work of fiction (after The Woman Who...

Burial.(Brief article)(Book review)
January 25, 2010... Burial Neil Cross. Forge, $24.99 (300p) ISBN 978-0-7653-2587-7 British author Cross's smooth U.S. debut, a novel of psychological suspense, offers a familiar setup. One summer night in 1993, Nathan Redmond, a research assistant for a radio...

The Queen's Lover.(Brief article)(Book review)
January 25, 2010... The Queen's Lover Vanora Bennett. Morrow, $25.99 (592p) ISBN 978-0-06-168986-4 It might seem foolhardy to dig into the treasure trove of English history and yank out one of its least illustrious characters for a revisionist makeover, yet...

Still Midnight.(Brief article)(Book review)
January 25, 2010... * Still Midnight Denise Mina. Little, Brown/Reagan Arthur, $24.99 (352p) ISBN 978-0-316-01563-9 At the outset of Mina's stellar first in a new series, two men in army fatigues, Pat and Eddy, break into the suburban Glasgow house of the...

The Silent Sea.(Brief article)(Book review)
January 25, 2010... The Silent Sea Clive Cussler with Jack Du Brul. Putnam, $27.95 (416p) ISBN 978-0-399-15625-0 In the winning seventh entry in the Oregon Files nautical adventure series from bestseller Cussler and Du Brul (after Corsair), Juan Cabrillo, the...

PW talks with Jo Nesbo: Norwegian Noir: Jo Nesbo's conflicted, flawed police detective, Harry Hole, the hero of five crime thrillers, makes his third appearance in English translation in The Devil's Star (Reviews. Jan. 18).(Q&A)(Interview)
January 25, 2010... Did you have any models in mind when you created your atypical hero? Yes. Myself. Olav Hole, the local policeman in my grandmother's village. Characters from Molde, a small town on the west coast of Norway where I grew up. Characters from...

From the Four Winds.(Brief article)(Book review)
January 25, 2010... From the Four Winds Haim Sabato, trans, from the Hebrew by Yaacob Dweck. Toby, $24.95 (160p) ISBN 978-1-59264-240-3 Sabato (Adjusting Sights) draws upon his personal history in this reflective novel about an indefatigable Hungarian...

The Bone Thief: A Body Farm Novel.(Brief article)(Book review)
January 25, 2010... The Bone Thief: A Body Farm Novel Jefferson Bass. Morrow, $24.99 (352p) ISBN 978-0-061284-76-2 Those looking for a mystery in this so-so sequel to Bones of Betrayal, the fifth forensic thriller from bestseller Bass (the pseudonym of Bill...

Down to the Wire.(Brief article)(Book review)
January 25, 2010... * Down to the Wire David Rosenfelt. Minotaur, $24.99 (304p) ISBN 978-0-312-37394-8 Near the start of Rosenfelt's dynamite thriller, his second stand-alone after 2008's Don't Tell a Soul, reporter Chris Turley from the Bergen News, is about...

As If We Were Prey: Stories.(Brief article)(Book review)
January 25, 2010... As If We Were Prey: Stories Michael Delp. Wayne State Univ., $15.95 paper (120p) ISBN 978-0-8143-3477-5 Delp (The Last Good Water) finds dark inspiration for these loose stories in the complicated transformations of boys to men. In...

Hold Up the Sky.(Brief article)(Book review)
January 25, 2010... Hold Up the Sky Patricia Sprinkle. NAL Accent, $15 paper (416p) ISBN 978-0-451-22914-4 In her latest, Sprinkle (Carley's Song) abandons mystery for pure melodrama, following two down-on-their-luck sisters reconverging on their father's...

The Last Fix.(Brief article)(Book review)
January 25, 2010... The Last Fix K.O. Dahl, trans. from the Norwegian by Don Bartlett. Minotaur, $24.99 (576p) ISBN 978-0-312-37571-3 Intense police inspector Gunnarstranda and his easygoing aide, Frank Frolich, tackle the murder of recovering drug addict...

Take Your Pleasure Where You Find It.(Brief article)(Book review)
January 25, 2010... Take Your Pleasure Where You Find It J.D. Mason. St. Martin's, $23.99 (320p) ISBN 978-0-312-59856-3 Mason (That Devil's No Friend of Mine) sets three former best friends on a collision course with the secret that shattered their friendship...

Bone Dogs.(Brief article)(Book review)
January 25, 2010... Bone Dogs Roger Alan Skipper. Counterpoint, $15.95 paper (256p) ISBN 978-1-58243-563-3 Set amid the hardscrabble hills of West Virginia, Skipper's third novel is a tour of trailer parks, lonely roads, and lost souls centering on Tuesday...

Invisible Boy.(Brief article)(Book review)
January 25, 2010... * Invisible Boy Cornelia Read. Grand Central, $24.99 (432p) ISBN 978-0-446-51134-6 Set in 1990, Read's superb third Madeline Dare novel (after The Crazy School) finds the acid-tongued ex-socialite and her blue-collar husband, Dean, in...

The Secret of the Glass.(Brief article)(Book review)
January 25, 2010... The Secret of the Glass Donna Russo Morin. Kensington, $15 paper (384p) ISBN 978-0-7582-2692-1 The latest inspiring historical romance from Morin (The Courtier's Secret) celebrates the eternal charms of Venice, Murano glass, and Galileo,...

If You Were My Man.(Brief article)(Book review)
January 25, 2010... If You Were My Man Francis Ray. St. Martin's Griffin, $14.99 paper (336p) ISBN 978-0-312-57369-0 The sixth and final installment in Ray's Invincible Women series (And Mistress Makes Three) explores a lonely widow's second chance at love...

She writes, he writes, too.('Venetia Kelly's Traveling Show' and 'The Season of Second Chances')(Book review)
January 25, 2010... Add "compare Amazon rankings" to the things husband and wife Frank Delaney and Diane Meier will be doing this spring. Venetia Kelly's Traveling Show Frank Delaney. Random, $26 (448p) ISBN 978-1-4000-6783-1 [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] A...

The Colony.(Brief article)(Book review)
January 25, 2010... The Colony Jillian Weise. Soft Skull, $15.95 paper (352p) ISBN 978-1-5937-6267-4 Ambitious, provocative, and wildly inventive, this debut novel from Texan poet Weise features sharp North Carolinian Anne Harley, born with a genetic mutation...

Dark Secrets of the Old Oak Tree.(Brief article)(Book review)
January 25, 2010... Dark Secrets of the Old Oak Tree Dolores J. Wilson. Medallion (IPG, dist.), $24.95 (348p) ISBN 978-1-60542-106-3 Wilson's melodramatic novel of suspense chronicles the deadly impact of secrets and lies on the people of a small Southern...

A Corpse at St. Andrew's Chapel.(Brief article)(Book review)
January 25, 2010... A Corpse at St. Andrew's Chapel Mel Starr. Monarch (Kregel, dist.), $14.99 paper (288p) ISBN 978-1-85424-954-8 History teacher and author Starr (The Unquiet Bones) pens a second medieval mystery featuring Master Hugh de Singleton, surgeon...

Somewhere to Belong.(Brief article)(Book review)
January 25, 2010... Somewhere to Belong Judith Miller. Bethany House, $14.99 paper (384p) ISBN 978-0-7642-0642-9 Amish fiction is so big it's spawning offshoots. Miller sets her historical in 1877 in the Amana Colonies in Iowa. The Christian inhabitants of...

A Dead Hand.(Brief article)(Book review)
January 25, 2010... A Dead Hand Paul Theroux. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, $26 (288p) ISBN 978-0-547-26024-2 The prolific and well-traveled Theroux follows Ghost Train to the Eastern Star with a crime novel set in India. Jerry Delfont, a middle-aged travel...

Phantom Noise.(Brief article)(Book review)
January 25, 2010... Phantom Noise Brian Turner. Alice James (Consortium, dist.), $15.95 (80p) ISBN 978-1-882295-80-7 Turner's debut, Here, Bullet (2006) was likely the most discussed debut of the decade: its sharp, accessible verse reflected Turner's U.S....

American Rendering: New and Selected Poems.(Brief article)(Book review)
January 25, 2010... American Rendering: New and Selected Poems Andrew Hudgins. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, $24 (240p) ISBN 978-0-547-24962-9 Hudgins's eighth collection and first retrospective confirms him as one of the few poets of the American South who can...

The Living Fire.(Brief article)(Book review)
January 25, 2010... * The Living Fire Edward Hirsch. Knopf, $2 7 (256p) ISBN 978-0-375-41522-7 Hirsch, a longtime poetry teacher and now the president of the Guggenheim Foundation, is an accessible and widely beloved poet and advocate for poetry. His work...

Pierce the Skin.(Brief article)(Book review)
January 25, 2010... * Pierce the Skin Hend Cole. Farrar, Straus & Gireux, $25 (144p) ISBN 978-0-374-23283-2 Cole has been called a "major poet" by no less an authority than Harold Bloom, and his work has been consistently lauded throughout his closely...

We Don't Know We Don't Know.(Brief article)(Book review)
January 25, 2010... We Don't Know We Don't Know Nick Lantz. Graywolf, $15 (96p) ISBN 978-1-55597-552-4 Exotic facts, "Ancient Theories" (one poem's title), memorable quotations and familial griefs collide and mingle throughout this striking first collection...

Like a Sea.(Brief article)(Book review)
January 25, 2010... * Like a Sea Samuel Amadon. Univ. of Iowa, $17 (100p) ISBN 978-1-58729-860-8 Amadon's memorable debut displays a rare combination of avant-garde technique with down-to-earth, up-to-the-minute subjects: flat diction, impossibly long or...

The Intricated Soul: New and Selected Poems.(Brief article)(Book review)
January 25, 2010... The Intricated Soul: New and Selected Poems Sherod Santos. Norton, $25.95 (192p) ISBN 978-0-393-07216-7 At one point in this retrospective, Santos inadvertently describes his own poems as a "soft susurrus/of myriad whispered...

A Little Middle of the Night.(Brief article)(Book review)
January 25, 2010... A Little Middle of the Night Molly Brodak. Univ. of Iowa, $17 (82p) ISBN 978-1-58729-858-5 In her Iowa prize-winning debut, Brodak unveils a ductile yet confident use of language and a penchant for formal experimentation. Stark natural...

Unincorporated Persons in the Late Honda Dynasty.(Brief article)(Book review)
January 25, 2010... Unincorporated Persons in the Late Honda Dynasty Tony Hoagland. Graywolf, $15 (100p) ISBN 978-1-55597-549-4 Hoagland's fourth collection finds him cynically observing America during and after the Bush presidency. The speaker of these poems...

When You Say One Thing but Mean Your Mother.(Brief article)(Book review)
January 25, 2010... When You Say One Thing but Mean Your Mother Melissa Binder. Ampersand (SPD, dist.), $13.95 (68p) ISBN 978-0-984-10254-9 This debut from Broder, editor of the online poetry magazine La Petit Zine, and a publicist at Penguin, is as funny and...

Personationskin.(Brief article)(Book review)
January 25, 2010... Personationskin Karl Parker. No Tell Books (SPD, dist.), $17 (136p) ISBN 978-0-578-01872-0 Parker is one of the oddest poet's you're likely to meet. With a hyperactive sense of humor and an irreverence to match, Parker creates poems that...

A Mouth in California.(Brief article)(Book review)
January 25, 2010... * A Mouth in California Graham Foust. Flood (SPD, dist.), $14.95 (100p) ISBN 978-0-9819520-1-7 Foust has achieved a wide reputation in and beyond experimental poetry circles for his clipped, breathless poems, often no longer than one or...