Let the Great World Spin
Colum McCann
"This novel is an act of pure bravado—dizzying proof that to keep your balance you need to know how to fall."
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Heroic Measures
Jill Ciment
avail. June 30
"Painterly depictions of a rattled city, deliciously biting satire of media and real-estate madness, and tender knowledge of the creaturely ties that bind."
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Admission
Jean Hanff Korelitz
"An intimate tale of skewed dreams and diverted lives... like sneaking into the ivy tower and pressing your ear to the wall."
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The Food of a Younger Land
Mark Kurlansky
"A banquet of stories and traditional recipes collected in the 1930s... for a hungry time."
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The Peep Diaries
Hal Niedzviecki
"Niedzviecki explains the consuming need behind our mass addiction to twittering, tweeting, snooping, spying, blogging, gawking at reality TV and YouTube... the list goes on."
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Farm City
Novella Carpenter
"A delectable story of how the author turned a 'ghetto squat lot' in Oakland, California, into a working urban farm." | |
Plan Bee
Susan Brackney
"A close encounter with a high-functioning (and endangered) society that is essential to our own... A delightful primer." | |
Stormy Weather
James Gavin
"How the elegant Lena Horne—polite to a fault, quietly enraged by Hollywood racism—spent decades getting comfortable in her skin." |
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A Meaningful Life
L.J. Davis
"Some of the most brilliant comic turns this side of Alice in Wonderland... A cathartic read for urban pioneers." | |
A Moveable Feast
Ernest Hemingway
avail. July 14
"For its musings on creativity and for its heady Parisian ambience, for its poison darts of gossip and vignettes about literary lions from Gertrude Stein to F. Scott Fitzgerald, read the latest incarnation of Ernest Hemingway's original manuscript."
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Lime Tree Can't Bear Orange
Amanda Smyth
avail. June 30
"The death of innocence is like catnip to fiction writers, and Smyth pounces on it with all four paws in her debut novel."
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Camilla
Madeleine L'Engle
"A lonely sheltered heroine in mid-century Manhattan, Camilla tries to fathom the sweet, slow progress of desire."
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Essential Pleasures: A New Anthology of Poems to Read Aloud
edited by Robert Pinsky
"A cache of speakable poems, romantic and ridiculous, somber and sublime. Read one to someone you love." | |
Poems from the Women's Movement
edited by Honor Moore
"A rich anthology... For women, wrote Audre Lorde, 'poetry is not a luxury' but a necessary way of dealing with gender, power, and race, sometimes with fury, sometimes with expansive joy." |
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