It would have been quite easy to trip over the six packages on the porch this morning had I not been careful. Small mailbox and a locked front door lead to a pile on the porch at times.
Top left is Conjunctions: 41, ordered online last week. This issue has work from EWN favorites such as Steve Erickson, Madison Smartt Bell, Bradford Morrow, Renee Gladman, Carole Maso, Brian Evenson, and a portfolio on William Gaddis including writings from Paul Auster, Susan Cheever, Mary Caponegro, Robert Coover, Don Delillo, Cynthia Ozick, Jonathan Lethem, Joseph McElroy and William H. Gass, among others.
Top middle is Conjunctions: 30, ordered online last week. This issue has work from Anne Carson, Joy Williams, William T. Vollmann, William H. Gass, Robert Coover, Paul Maliszewski, Joanna Scott, and more.
Top right came from Graywolf, a final copy of Kevin Barry's City of Bohane, which I'd not heard of, which yes, means I did indeed miss the front page review via the NYTBR a couple of weeks back.
Bottom left is The House Enters the Street by Gretchen E. Henderson. This galley was sent by Starcherone, the book hits the world September 1 and looks to be pretty great.
Bottom middle is Killing Kanoko: Selected Poems of Hiromi Ito, translated by Jeffrey Angles. Matt Bell recently referred to this as the best collection of poetry he's read in a long time--no other reason needed to immediately order it from Action Books.
Bottom right is Lookout Cartridge by Joseph McElroy from his agent. Dzanc has recently acquired the eBook and paperback rights to this one to go with the other great McElroy titles we'll be bringing to you soon.
I really enjoyed City of Bohane — hope you do, too.
Posted by: Steve Himmer | July 02, 2012 at 11:08 AM