DeWitt Henry recommends Man vs. Nature, a novel by Doug Crandell: “In his debut novel, Crandell tells a lyrical, preposterous tale of Midwestern farm life, interweaving the coming of age of a farm boy with a lunatic father who raises pigs and a subplot about the invasion of TV news and the media’s distortions of…
Margot Livesey recommends Broken Ground, a novel by Kai Maristed: “Maristed brilliantly depicts a woman’s search for her daughter and her past in Germany before and after the fall of the Berlin Wall. The novel moves gracefully between past and present, personal and political, and is intelligent, absorbing, and suspenseful at every level.” (Shoemaker &…
Gerald Stern recommends Search Party, collected poems of William Matthews: “For my money, the new selected of Bill Matthews is a bit too thin considering his extraordinary vision and voice, but it is a magnificent book that the editors Sebastian Matthews and Stanley Plumly have brought out. I think Matthews will take his place as…
Maxine Kumin also recommends Fire by Wesley McNair: “Poems personal yet universal by a master craftsman with a remarkable ear and memory.” (Godine)
C. D. Wright recommends Alphabet, poems by Inger Christensen: “A book to break up the psychic mumbo jumbo within, and to help you fight the actual threats from without. A true singer of the syllables.” (New Directions)
Maxine Kumin recommends Now the Green Blade Rises, poems by Elizabeth Spires: “A book remarkable for its grace, its willingness to grapple with large metaphysical issues in modest and physical terms, and an eloquence that is an unusual commodity in most contemporary collections.” (Norton)
James Alan McPherson recommends The Wide-Brimmed Hat, a collection by Susan Kuehn Boyd: “This beautiful collection of stories, memories, and poems captures the sensibility of a very special writer. Ms. Boyd’s stories began appearing in The O. Henry Awards and The Best American Short Stories as early as 1947. Set in regions as far apart…
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…
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