Anticipated Books of 2013: Adam Day’s List

As we continue our countdown to the Anticipated Books of 2013, contributing editor Adam Day, author of the chapbook Badger Apochrypha, shares a few of the books he is looking forward to. Companion Grasses by Brian Teare (Apr 1, 2013) Omnidawn. Advice from 1 Disciple of Marx to 1 Heidegger Fanatic by Mario Santiago Papasquiaro,…

Anticipated Books of 2013: Laura van den Berg’s List

Welcome to our annual countdown to the books of the new year! We get weary of all the best-of lists, and there are always so many terrific books to look forward to.  It’s time to build your 2013 wish lists with the help of our staff, whose lists we’ll post over the next two weeks. Contributing…

Countdown to 2012 with Our Readers

Over the past two weeks, we have brought you lists from our editors and contributors sharing the books we are looking forward to reading in 2012. It seemed only fitting that our final list could come from you, our readers. (Since clearly we are grateful for your taste in reading!) Our final post of 2011…

Countdown to the Books of 2012 with Rebecca Morgan Frank

Rebecca Morgan Frank, co-founder and editor-in chief of Memorious, and author of the forthcoming collection Little Murders Everywhere, offers up a list of books by Memorious contributors to watch out for in 2012. Fiction: Joanna Luloff, I Love You, Come Home Soon (Algonquin 2012). Luloff’s story “Counting Hours” appeared in issue 9 of Memorious by…

Countdown to the Books of 2012 (Nonfiction!)

Rebecca Morgan Frank, co-founder and editor-in chief of Memorious, and author of the forthcoming poetry collection Little Murders Everywhere, brings some nonfiction books having to do with music (sort of) into the mix of lists of anticipated books of 2012. Yes, We Read Nonfiction Some of our readers have expressed disappointment that we do not…

Countdown to the Books of 2012 with Ted Weesner

Contributor Ted Weesner is a longtime contributor to The Boston Globe, and his stories have appeared such places as Ploughshares and The Cincinnati Review. He is currently working on a novel. Today he gives us some relief from lists as he reflects on why he’s looking forward to one of next year’s titles. In Anticipation…

Countdown to the Books of 2012 with Caki Wilkinson

Contributor Caki Wilkinson is the author of the poetry collection Circles Where the Head Should Be, which won the 2010 Vassar Miller Prize and was published by the University of North Texas Press.  Today she shares with us some books she is looking forward to in 2012. Vladimir Nabokov, Selected Poems (Knopf) Traci Brimhall, Our…

Countdown to the Books of 2012 with Rob Arnold

Today’s list anticipating the books of 2012 comes from contributing editor Rob Arnold, who is one of our founding editors, and who is now the managing editor of Fence. I feel remiss as a poet. What does it mean that the books I’m most drawn to in the coming year are by novelists by and large?…

Countdown to the Books of 2012 with Barrett Bowlin

Memorious fiction editor Barrett Bowlin has published work in such journals as Salt Hill, Meridian, Minnesota Review, and Pank. Today he weighs in with his anticipated book list for 2012. The Flame Alphabet (Knopf) by Ben Marcus [1/17/12] – Although Ben Marcus looks like he’s just as obsessed as the rest of us when it…

Countdown to the Books of 2012 with Laura van den Berg

Contributing Editor Laura van den Berg, author of What the World Will Look Like When All the Water Leaves Us, which was shortlisted for the Frank O’Connor Award and longlisted for the Story Prize, weighs in on the year ahead with her list of anticipated books for 2012: Six works of fiction I can’t wait…