ME AND KAMINSKI

Daniel Kehlmann translated by Carol Brown Janeway Pantheon ($21.95) by Eric Iannelli When Daniel Kehlmann—one of the few authors of the past decade for whom

WE AGREED TO MEET JUST HERE

Scott Blackwood New Issues Poetry and Prose ($26) by Jaspar Lepak Winner of the 2007 AWP Award Series in the Novel, Scott Blackwood’s first novel, We

MY LIFE AT FIRST TRY

Mark Budman Counterpoint Press ($24) by Bob Sommer Mark Budman’s My Life at First Try straddles the space between the short story cycle tradition of writers like

WALK THE BLUE FIELDS

Claire Keegan Grove/Atlantic ($13) by Salvatore Ruggiero A pervasive melancholy rips through the hearts and minds of the characters in Claire Keegan’s Walk the Blue Fields. In

ASTA IN THE WINGS

Jan Elizabeth Watson Tin House Books ($14) by Jaspar Lepak Asta in the Wings, Jan Elizabeth Watson’s debut novel, tells the remarkably imaginative and heartbreaking

SECOND VIOLINS

edited by Marco Sonzogni Vintage New Zealand by Linda Lappin Nearing the end of her brief life, Katherine Mansfield became obsessed with time. She was

OR TO BEGIN AGAIN

Ann Lauterbach Penguin ($18) by Michael D. Snediker Ann Lauterbach’s new collection, Or to Begin Again, ravishes in the geometrical, in geometry’s attempt to make sense