How Zachary Mason supplied The NY Times with a candy dish, and other strange tales of 2008

The big spread on Starcherone in the newest edition of American Book Review (Vol. 30, No. 2, Jan/Feb 2009) is only the latest in what has been a year of great press for our books. Here is our annual year-end review of online reviews and other curiosities (toenail clippings, a Swedish poet, the last Jew on Earth, a novelist-veterinarian...) relating to Starcherone authors, leading off with what may be the book of 2008...

Zachary Mason – The Lost Books of the Odyssey

Eugene Lim, "The Trojan War Will Take Place." Brooklyn Rail

Garrett Rowlan, "Irreal Expedition." The Café Irreal. http://home.sprynet.com/~awhit/review9.htm

Jefferson Hansen. Experimental Fiction/Poetry/Jazz blog.

Shawna Yang Ryan, Gently Read Literature

Ben Ehrenreich, "Get Lost!" LA Times Book Review

Alex Kasman. Mathematical Fiction

NY Times Book Review blog, "Papercuts" (mention by Rachel Harris - re: candy dish)

Steve Donoghue, "Many Voyages Home." Open Letters Monthly

Daniel Green. The_Reading_Experience

James Crossley. Review of Contemporary Fiction

Francois Monti. Tabula Rasa (in French)


Joshua Cohen – A Heaven of Others

Buffalo ArtVoice (interview)

Alexander Zaitchik, "The Politics of the Afterlife." Brooklyn Rail

Joshua Cohen, "Last Line." Esquire Magazine Books Blog

The Wrong Heaven: Critic Joshua Cohen on His New Novel (interview). Jewish Forward

Patrick Schabe. PopMatters

Daniel Green. The_Reading_Experience


Johannes Goransson - Dear Ra

Kevin Killian amazon review

Blake Butler. No One Does That blog.

Rauan Klassnik, "Ecstasy of Dismemberment: interview with Johannes Goransson." Holy Land blog.

Ploughshares Blog

[Movie of JG reading poems in Swedish] Rabbit Light Movies.


Raymond Federman and George Chambers – The Twilight of the Bums

Buck Quigley, "Federman @ 80." Buffalo ArtVoice

Jeff Simon. Buffalo News


Raymond Federman – My Body in Nine Parts (2005)

Buffalo News (mention by Mary Kunz - cutting toenails)


Sara Greenslit – The Blue of Her Body (2007)

"Sara Greenslit — Novelist grabs second career in animal care." U. of Wisconsin-Madison News