THIS YEAR YOU WRITE YOUR NOVEL

Walter Mosley Little, Brown & Company ($19.99) by Kevin Carollo Coming in at around half the length of Chris Baty’s novel-in-a-month plan No Plot? No Problem!,

AMERICAN ARTISTS, JEWISH IMAGES

Matthew Baigell Syracuse University Press ($45) by Daniel Morris An emeritus professor of art history at Rutgers, Matthew Baigell has over the last decade become

THE MISLAID MAGICIAN OR TEN YEARS AFTER

Patricia C. Wrede and Caroline Stevermer Harcourt ($17) by William Alexander An epistolary novel, The Mislaid Magician is written as a series of letters between cousins Kate

SHARP OBJECTS

Gillian Flynn Three Rivers Press ($14) by Spencer Dew Gillian Flynn has an uncanny command of place, recognizing how the mood of a whole town

GETTING TO KNOW YOU

David Marusek Subterranean Press ($40) by Rod Smith David Marusek isn't one to rush a page. The Alaskan science fiction author's first novel—2005's widely praised Counting

POTATO TREE

James Sallis Host Publications ($25) by Morris Collins Collecting stories published over the course of forty years, Potato Tree clearly reflects James Sallis’s distinct, unconventional aesthetic. Inanimate