The Year in Reviews
[image is from Joshua Cohen's notebook for A Heaven of Others]
More than any year since we began publishing books in 2000, Starcherone publications garnered terrific reviews in 2007. Here's a listing of these reviews (at least most of them), with links to those that can be found online:
Joshua Harmon's Quinnehtukqut:
Jeff Hansen, Rain Taxi Review of Books, Winter 07/08, p. 44: "'The Legend of Jimmy Frye' is reason enough to get this book."
Anne Cammon, KGBBarLit: "a bold effort from a new writer eager to push the boundaries of storytelling."
John Cotter, "Voices in the Woods," Open Letters Monthly, November 2007.
Alexander Nazaryan, "The Wood Demons: Wilderness, darkness, and drink in a debut novel," Village Voice.
Sara Greenslit's The Blue of Her Body
Mary Cappello, "Monstrous Beings in Need of a Hair Wash," Women's Review of Books, November/December 2007, p. 20-22: "an extended prose poem passing as a novel."
Daniel Green, "The Silence She Sought," The Reading Experience: A LIterature and Criticism Blog, May 29, 2007.
Harold Jaffe's Beyond the Techno-Cave
Steve Shaviro, "Strategies for the War on Culture," American Book Review, November/December 2007, p. 20-21: "Harold Jaffe is pissed off. As he ought to be. As we all ought to be."
Gary Lain, Belphegor, June 2007
Michael Filas, Rain Taxi Review of Books, Summer 2007, p. 47: "The essays especially bring in an element of earnestness and personal conviction, nakedly revealing the heart and courage for which Jaffe is so often noted."
Larry Fondation, "Nonfiction: Writing as Warfare," Brooklyn Rail, April 2007
PP/FF: An Anthology, ed. Peter Conners
Chris Murray, "A Fluxifyin' Concoction, PP/FF: can we have our say and play it too?", Sentence #5, p. 271-4.
Peter Bricklebank, "Neither/Nor Fish/Fowl (NN/FF)," American Book Review, January/ February 2007, p. 6-7.
"Rants & Raves" exchange between Peter Conners and Peter Bricklebank, American Book Review, September/October 2007, p. 3.
Jeffrey DeShell's Peter: An (A)Historical Romance
John Domini, "Par(enthetical)ody," American Book Review, January/February 2007, p. 9.
This list includes only reviews from 2007 (PP/FF & DeShell had a lot more last year). Look for more in 2008! And in the meantime, check out these 2007-08 Starcherone author pages:
Zachary Mason's The Lost Books of the Odyssey (worth it for the hilarious FAQ alone!)
Joshua Harmon's blog
JoshuaCohen.org
As well as the interview about publishing I gave last February in Conversations in the Book Trade.
Happy New Year!
posted by Ted Pelton @ 3:41 PM
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