Here are our most frequently read book reviews for 2009. Many thanks to all our friends who helped to bring attention to new writing and grow our audience.
POETRY
Salvinia Molesta, by Victoria Chang (University of Georgia Press)
Body Clock, by Eleni Sikelianos (Coffee House Press)
Twenty-four Poets Name New Favorites
Petals of One, Petals of Zero, by Andrew Zawacki (Talisman House)
NOVELS
Blame, by Michelle Huneven (Farrar Straus Giroux)
The American Painter Emma Dial, by Samantha Peale (Norton)
Glover’s Mistake, by Nick Laird (Penguin)
ESSAYS AND CRITICISM
The Winter Sun: Notes on a Vocation, by Fanny Howe (Graywolf)
On Kindness, by Adam Phillips and Barbara Taylor (Farrar Straus Giroux)
City Dog, by W.S. Di Piero (Northwestern University)
BIOGRAPHY AND HISTORY
PHOTOGRAPHY
The Jazz Loft Project: Photographs and Tapes of W. Eugene Smith, by Sam Stephenson (Knopf)
POPULAR CULTURE