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Gently Read Literature
January 2012
Happy New Year!
Favorite Books of 2011
Happy New Year
Everyone loves end of the year lists–best of’s, if you will. So I’ve decided to present Gently Read Literature’s Books of the Year 2011, twelve favorites. These titles were all reviewed in Gently Read Literature over 2011.
Enjoy!
Daniel Casey, editor Gently Read Literature
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1. In Which Brief Stories Are Told, Phillip Sterling, Wayne State University Press, 2011
Reviewed in the December issue
http://issuu.com/gently_read_literature/docs/grl_dec
2. To Be Human is to be a Conversation, Andrea Rexilius, Rescue Press, 2011
Reviewed in the November issue
http://issuu.com/gently_read_literature/docs/grl_nov
3. The Girl with Brown Fur, Stacey Levine, Starcherone, 2011
Reviewed in the July & November issues
http://issuu.com/gently_read_literature/docs/julyissue
http://issuu.com/gently_read_literature/docs/grl_nov
4. Mule, Shane McCrae, Cleveland State University Poetry Center, 2011
Reviewed in the October issue
http://issuu.com/gently_read_literature/docs/octoberissue
5. The Art of Cruelty: A Reckoning , Maggie Nelson, W.W. Norton, 2011
Reviewed in the October issue
http://issuu.com/gently_read_literature/docs/octoberissue
6. Ordinary Suns, Matthew Henriksen, Black Ocean, 2011
Reviewed in the July issue
http://issuu.com/gently_read_literature/docs/julyissue
7. The Grief Perfomance, Emily Kendal Frey, Cleveland State University Poetry Center, 2011
Reviewed in the September issue
http://issuu.com/gently_read_literature/docs/september_issue
8. In the Kingdom of the Sons, Bonnie Bolling, Briery Creek Press, 2011
Reviewed in the August issue
http://issuu.com/gently_read_literature/docs/august_issue1
9. Nahoonkara: A novel, Peter Grandbois , Etruscan Press, 2011
Reviewed in the September issue
http://issuu.com/gently_read_literature/docs/september_issue
10. lie down too, Lesle Lewis, Alice James Books, 2011
Reviewed in the October issue
http://issuu.com/gently_read_literature/docs/octoberissue
11. Your Father on the Train of Ghosts, G. C. Waldrep and John Gallaher, BOA Editions, 2011
Reviewed in the October issue
http://issuu.com/gently_read_literature/docs/octoberissue
12. No Eden, Sally Rosen Kindred, Mayapple Press, 2011
Reviewed in the May issue
Gently Read Literature, Dec. 2011
Gently Read Literature can now be purchased for download to your Nook or Kindle!
Gently Read Literature can now be purchased for download to your Nook or Kindle!
Not only will Gently Read Literature be sent free to our list of subscribers every month but also we will offer digital download to you e-reader, tablet, or hand-held device.
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November 2011 Issue of Gently Read Literature
New Issue of Gently Read Literature
November 2011
http://issuu.com/gently_read_literature/docs/grl_nov
In this month’s issue–
**A Poet at the Painter’s Table: Derek Fenner on Patrick James Dunagan’s There Are People Who Think That Painters Shouldn’t Talk
**RE: RE: Ed Davis reviews Meredith Sue Willis’s Re-Visions
**Love Poems for Weary Revolutionaries: Cheryl Klein on Jen Benka’s Pinko
**A New Kind of Air: Clark Knowles on Julie Doxsee’s Objects for a Fog Death
**Art Objects: Sam Kerbel on Art From Art
**An On-Going Conversation: Kristina Marie Darling on Kyle McCord & Jeannie Hoag’s Informal Invitation to a Traveler
**Sucker-Punched: Sonja Livingston on Louis B. Jones’s Radiance
**Sobering Expanse: Rita Mae Reese on Mark Jarman’s New & Selected Poems Bone Fires
**Listen to This: Megan Marton on Andrea Rexilius’s To Be Human is to be a Conversation
**Missed by Casual Contemplation: Amy Henry on Stacey Levine’s The Girl with Brown Fur
Check it out!
http://issuu.com/gently_read_literature/docs/grl_nov
PLUS
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We’ve raised just over $1000 but we need to reach our goal of $5000 or we get no funds at all!
Donate: http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/danielcasey/gently-read-literature
To all of you who have donated, thank you so much! We’re that much closer to our end goal!
Remember, Gently Read Literature is a free publication. This fundraising drive is meant to allow GRL to pay the freelance reviewers that make GRL what it is–a thoughtful, in-depth monthly magazine devoted to critical reviews of contemporary poetry and literary fiction.
If we reach the set goal of $5000, then Gently Read Literature will have enough funds to pay contributors for the next 3 years!
But, unless we reach the target goal of $5000, we won’t get any funds at all.
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Gently Read Literature Fundraising Drive
Loyal & Avid Readers,
Gently Read Literature has been providing thoughtful, in-depth critical reviews of contemporary poetry and literary fiction every month since 2008. This year, GRL undergone a cosmetic make-over, presenting the same high quality, accessible literary reviews but in a more polished and savvy electronic format. The response has been overwhelmingly positive, just take a look at our current issue, http://issuu.com/gently_read_literature/docs/octoberissue.
Building on this success, GRL intends to provide a space for independent and university publishers/presses and authors to promote their literary endeavors. Gently Read Literature is a free literary magazine and plans to stay that way, however with your help GRL can continue to offer professional reviews from impassioned writers and readers for years to come. The literary community desperately needs critical outlets that are neither superficial nor overly academic; Gently Read Literature sees itself as helping to fill this space.GRL is a volunteer magazine, founder & editor Daniel Casey and designer Carol Jackson put Gently Read Literature together every month without compensation because they believe in the work. But they also believe in compensating the great critics, writers, and readers who as freelancers contribute reviews to GRL. Using the public radio model, Gently Read Literature is in the midst of a 43 day fundraising drive to collect enough funds to finally pay contributors: http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/danielcasey/gently-read-literature
Kickerstarter is a site dedicated to help fund creative projects–on Kickstarter a project must reach its funding goal before any money changes hands. We’ve set a goal of $5000, an amount which will allow GRL pay contributors for the next few years. All funds raised will go towards compensating the freelance reviewers who make Gently Read Literature what it is. Please consider donating to support Gently Read Literature. Even a donation of $1 gets us closer to our goal.
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Thank you so much for all of your support
Daniel Casey, Editor/Founder Gently Read Literature
Carol Jackson, Design Editor Gently Read Literature
Gently Read Literature October 2011
Gently Read Literature
October 2011
An Other Woman: Metaxa Cunningham on Anne Enright’s The Forgotten Waltz
You Feel Sung: Stephen Page on Gary Snyder’s Left Out in the Rain
Gathered Threads Weave: Deb Baker on Deborah Brown’s Walking the Dog’s Shadow
A Territory of Welcome: Nick Courtright on Your Father on the Train of Ghosts by G. C. Waldrep and John Gallaher
Confident & Lost: Rita Mae Reese on Shane McCrae’s Mule
Loving the Complexity of Art: Daniela Olszewska on Maggie Nelson’s The Art of Cruelty
Dirty Jobs: Ethel Rohan on Alissa Nutting’s Unclean Jobs for Women and Girls
Polished Stones: Mark Jenkins on lie down too by Lesle Lewis
The Long Black Song: Alonzo McBride on Edouard Levé’s Suicide.
Cute Things By Themselves Get Boring: Morgan Macgregor on Lynne Tillman’s Someday This Will Be Funny
Also, consider supporting GRL’s fundraising campaign: http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/danielcasey/gently-read-literature
The September Issue: Gently Read Literature, Sept. 2011
Gently Read Literature, September 2011
http://issuu.com/gently_read_literature/docs/september_issue
The new issue of Gently Read Literature is up now featuring reviews of the following:
**Halfway Between Mother Goose & Mayhem: James Reiss reviews Philip Appleman’s Perfidious Proverbs and Other Poems
**Mature & Curious: Lisa Wells reviews Carl Adamshick Curses and Wishes
**Obvious Motifs & Subtle Undercurrents: Kathryn Kysar reviews Denis Low’s Ghost Stories from the New West
**The Restoration of Magic to American Fiction: Robin Martin reviews Peter Grandbois’s Nahoonkara
**Better Than You Did When You Were Alive: Bonnie ZoBell reviews Heather Fowler’s Suspended Heart
**Ideas in Lapping Waves: Shel Graves reviews Ellen Welcker’s The Botanical Garden
**S&M Young Adult Cautionary Tale: Erin O’Riordan reviews K.C. Lauer’s Bad Girl Gone Mom
**That Very What-ness: Megan Kaminski reviews Emily Kendal Frey’s The Grief Performance
**On the Verge: Kris Bigalk reviews David Rivard’s Otherwise, Elsewhere
**All Voyages Are Destructive: Moriah Purdy reviews Joe Hall’s Pigafetta is My Wife
Gently Read Literature has been providing thoughtful, in-depth critical reviews of contemporary poetry and literary fiction every month since 2008. This year, GRL undergone a cosmetic make-over, presenting the same high quality, accessible literary reviews but in a more polished and savvy electronic format. The response has been overwhelmingly positive.
Building on this success, GRL intents to provide a space for independent and university publishers/presses and authors to promote their literary endeavors. Gently Read Literature is a free literary magazine and plans to stay that way, however with your help GRL can continue to offer professional reviews from impassioned writers and readers for years to come. The literary community desperately needs critical outlets that are neither superficial nor overly academic, Gently Read Literature sees itself as helping to fill this space.
Starting with GRL’s November 2011 issue, advertisements will be available at rates that are significantly lower than many other literary publications. A permanent one-year, full page color ad with no word limit and unlimited hyperlinks will be available for $250 (that’s $20 a month). Banner advertisements appearing within individual reviews will be available for $100 (just over $8 a month). The funds raised from these advertisements will go towards the continued development of Gently Read Literature, allowing GRL to pay its contributors and promote small, independent, and literary presses to a devoted audience.
I look forward to hearing from you!
Take Care
Daniel Casey, Founder & Editor
Carol Jackson, Design
Gently Read Literature
gentlyreadlit@gmail.com
Advertise in Gently Read Literature
Gently Read Literature has been providing thoughtful, in-depth critical reviews of contemporary poetry and literary fiction every month since 2008. This year, GRL undergone a cosmetic make-over, presenting the same high quality, accessible literary reviews but in a more polished and savvy electronic format. The response has been overwhelmingly positive.
Building on this success, GRL intents to provide a space for independent and university publishers/presses and authors to promote their literary endeavors. Gently Read Literature is a free literary magazine and plans to stay that way, however with your help GRL can continue to offer professional reviews from impassioned writers and readers for years to come. The literary community desperately needs critical outlets that are neither superficial nor overly academic, Gently Read Literature sees itself as helping to fill this space.
Starting with GRL’s November 2011 issue, advertisements will be available at rates that are significantly lower than many other literary publications. A permanent, full page color ad with no word limit and unlimited hyperlinks will be available for $250. Banner advertisements appearing within individual reviews will be available for $100. The funds raised from these advertisements will go towards the continued development of Gently Read Literature, allowing GRL to pay its contributors and promote small, independent, and literary presses to a devoted audience.
Please take a look at the current and past issues of Gently Read Literature to get an idea of what we can offer.
I look forward to hearing from you!
Take Care
Daniel Casey, founder & editor
Gently Read Literature
gentlyreadlit@gmail.com
August 2011 Issue
Here’s the new August 2011 Gently Read Literature:
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GRL is still running free ads until the end of the summer so September & October are still available, contact editor Daniel Casey (gentlyreadlit@gmail.com)
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Also, GRL’s mailing address has changed. Please send all materials for review and promotions to:
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