Poetry

• elsewhere held and lingered by Conchitina Cruz
• Refusing Heaven by Jack Gilbert
• Modern Life by Matthea Harvey
• Radial Symmetry by Katherine Larson
• Or to Begin Again by Ann Lauterbach
• Mother Quiet by Martha Rhodes
• The Long Lost Startle by Joel Toledo
• The Collapse of What Separates Us by Vincenz Serrano
• One with Others by C.D. Wright

Short Fiction

• Severance by Robert Olen Butler
• How We Are Hungry by Dave Eggers
• Brief Interviews with Hideous Men by David Foster Wallace

Novels

• The Fall by Albert Camus
• Tree of Codes by Jonathan Safran Foer
• The Lazarus Project by Aleksandar Hemon
• Light Boxes by Shane Jones

• Cotton tips are the enemy.
• It is always much safer to use a lighter to smoke a cigarette than to burn paper inside your house.