Margot Livesey recommends Secret Frequencies: A New York Education, a memoir by John Skoyles: "No one who reads this delightful, absorbing account of a teenage boy’s summer of initiation will ever forget the brilliant characters or the remarkable city—New York in the sixties—which John Skoyles brings so eloquently to life." (Nebraska)
Madeline DeFrees recommends A Girl from Zanzibar, a novel by Roger King: “London-born novelist Roger King, an immigrant to the U.S. with extensive experience on four continents, writes an absorbing tale of international intrigue in our increasingly globalized world. As an agricultural economist, largely in African countries, King worked for various United Nations agencies during…
George Garrett recommends Naming the Afternoon, poems by Julia Johnson: “An outstanding first collection of fifty poems, highly praised by Kelly Cherry: ‘Julia Johnson is inventive and eccentric, a new voice speaking from a fresh perspective.’ Johnson was given a New Writing Award for poetry by the Fellowship of Southern Writers.” (LSU)
Marilyn Hacker recommends Forms of Gone, poems by Yerra Sugarman: ” Forms of Gone is a powerful first book by a poet mature in experience and worldview, whose strength is drawn at once from a unique perspective and a multilayered engagement with the counterpoint of syntax and poetic measure. Sugarman is the daughter of Shoah…
Philip Levine recommends Season of the Body, essays by Brenda Miller: “Personal essays that explore the relationships between the self and the other, the other being the creator, the world, the social order, the clan, the beloved, and more intimately the reader, the body, the soul. The writing is graceful and rich but never ornate…
James Alan McPherson recommends The Huntsman, a novel by Whitney Terrell: “This is an excellent exploration of racial and class interactions in contemporary American life. But much more than this, Whitney provides the reader with a knowing view of Kansas City-a sense of place that is evocative of a settled way of life. This book…
Gary Soto recommends Rumba Atop the Stones, poems by Orlando Ricardo Menes: “There is lush music to Menes’s first book, and this lushness may arise from his subject, namely the Caribbean islands, particularly Cuba, his parents’ homeland. He writes of its populace-the dock worker, the sugar cane worker, the worker slaving at all trades-and the…
Russell Banks recommends Senseless, a novel by Stona Fitch: “A scary, smart moral fable for the post-9/11 U.S. reality, it’s short and not at all sweet.” (Soho)
George Garrett recommends Forever Remembered, interviews edited by Irv Broughton: “This is a wonderful gathering of interviews with World War II combat pilots. Broughton, a poet and filmmaker, is every bit as good as Studs Terkel in eliciting the stories and memories of these old guys.” (Eastern Washington)
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