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Magill’s Literary Annual 2012

Table of Contents

After Midnight




Alan Lomax: The Man Who Recorded the World




Alfred Kazin’s Journals




All Our Worldly Goods




Almost a Family: A Memoir




Alone Together: Why We Expect More from Technology and Less from Each Other




American Eden: From Monticello to Central Park to Our Backyards: What Our Gardens Tell Us about Who We Are




The Anatomy of Influence: Literature as a Way of Life




And So It Goes: Kurt Vonnegut, A Life




Apricot Jam: And Other Stories




Art and Madness: A Memoir of Lust without Reason




The Art of Asking Your Boss for a Raise




The Art of Fielding




An Atlas of Impossible Longing




Attack of the Difficult Poems: Essays and Inventions




Bad Intentions




Baseball in the Garden of Eden: The Secret History of the Early Game




Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother




Beautiful and Pointless: A Guide to Modern Poetry




Believing Is Seeing: Observations on the Mysteries of Photography




Binocular Vision: New and Selected Stories




Bismarck: A Life




The Bitter Waters of Medicine Creek: A Tragic Clash Between White and Native America




Blake and the Bible




Blood, Bones, and Butter: The Inadvertent Education of a Reluctant Chef




Blue Nights




A Book of Secrets: Illegitimate Daughters, Absent Fathers




Bowstring: On the Dissimilarity of the Similar




The Brilliant Disaster: JFK, Castro, and America’s Doomed Invasion of Cuba’s Bay of Pigs




The Buddha in the Attic




Bye-and-Bye: Selected Late Poems




Caleb’s Crossing




The Call




The Captain Asks for a Show of Hands




The Chameleon Couch




Changó’s Beads and Two-Tone Shoes




Charles Dickens: A Life




China in Ten Words




Civilization: The West and the Rest




Cloud of Ink




Coda




The Cold War




The Color of Night




Come and See




Confessions of a Young Novelist




Conversations with Scorsese




The Convert: A Tale of Exile and Extremism




A Covert Affair: Julia Child and Paul Child in the OSS




Crazy U: One Dad’s Crash Course in Getting His Kid into College




Culture of One




The Curfew




Dante in Love




Devotions




Don’t Shoot: One Man, a Street Fellowship, and the End of Violence in Inner-City America




The Drop




A Drop of the Hard Stuff




The Eichmann Trial




1861: The Civil War Awakening




Electric Eden: Unearthing Britain’s Visionary Music




11/22/63




Elizabeth Bishop and the New Yorker: The Complete Correspondence




Embassytown




Emily, Alone




An Empty Room




Endgame: Bobby Fischer’s Remarkable Rise and Fall—From America’s Brightest Prodigy to the Edge of Madness




The Evolution of Bruno Littlemore




The Fates Will Find Their Way




The Fear: Robert Mugabe and the Martyrdom of Zimbabwe




Feeding on Dreams: Confessions of an Unrepentant Exile




Field Gray




The Fifth Witness




The Forgotten Founding Father: Noah Webster’s Obsession and the Creation of an American Culture




Founding Gardeners: The Revolutionary Generation, Nature, and the Shaping of the American Nation




1493: Uncovering the New World Columbus Created




The Girl in the Blue Beret




The Girl in the Polka Dot Dress




G. K. Chesterton




Grand Pursuit: The Story of Economic Genius




The Greater Journey: Americans in Paris




The Great Night




Great Soul: Mahatma Gandhi and His Struggle with India




The Great Stagnation: How America Ate All the Low-Hanging Fruit of Modern History, Got Sick, and Will (Eventually) Feel Better




The H.D. Book: The Collected Writings of Robert Duncan




Heat Wave: The Life and Career of Ethel Waters




Hemingway’s Boat: Everything He Loved in Life, and Lost, 1934–1961




The Hemlock Cup: Socrates, Athens and the Search for the Good Life




The Hidden Reality: Parallel Universes and the Deep Laws of the Cosmos




Horoscopes for the Dead




The Illumination




The Immortalization Commission: Science and the Strange Quest to Cheat Death




In Other Worlds: SF and the Human Imagination




In the Garden of Beasts: Love, Terror, and an American Family in Hitler’s Berlin




Into the Silence: The Great War, Mallory, and the Conquest of Everest




Iphigenia in Forest Hills: Anatomy of a Murder Trial




A Jane Austen Education: How Six Novels Taught Me about Love, Friendship, and the Things That Really Matter




J. D. Salinger: A Life




Jerusalem: The Biography




Joan Mitchell: Lady Painter, A Life




Joe Dimaggio: The Long Vigil




Just One Catch: A Biography of Joseph Heller




The Keats Brothers: The Life of John and George




The King James Bible: A Short History from Tyndale to Today




The Land at the End of the World




Last Man in Tower




Lee Krasner: A Biography




The Leftovers




The Lessons




The Letters of Ernest Hemingway: Volume 1, 1907–1922




Liberty’s Exiles: American Loyalists in the Revolutionary World




Life Itself: A Memoir




Life on Mars




Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention




The Marriage Plot




Metropole




Micro




Miss New India




Modigliani: A Life




Moonwalking with Einstein: The Art and Science of Remembering Everything




Mr. Fox




Music for Silenced Voices: Shostakovich and His Fifteen Quartets




My Father’s Fortune: A Life




My New American Life




Nanjing Requiem




Never Say Die: The Myth and Marketing of the New Old Age




The Night Circus




Night Soul and Other Stories




Nod House




No Regrets: The Life of Edith Piaf




Once Upon a River




On China




One Day I Will Write about This Place




One Hundred Names For Love: A Stroke, a Marriage, and the Language of Healing




1Q84




One Was a Soldier




Open City




Orientation: And Other Stories




Otherwise Known as the Human Condition: Selected Essays and Reviews




The Pale King




The Paper Garden: An Artist Begins Her Life’s Work at Seventy-Two




A People of One Book: The Bible and the Victorians




The Philosophical Breakfast Club : Four Remarkable Friends Who Transformed Science and Changed the World




Please Look After Mom




The Pleasures of Reading in an Age of Distraction




The Prague Cemetery




The Preacher




The Psychopath Test: A Journey Through the Madness Industry




Pulphead: Essays




Pym




Reading My Father: A Memoir




Redeemers: Ideas and Power in Latin America




Rodin’s Debutante




Sacred Trash: The Lost and Found World of the Cairo Geniza




The Saturday Big Tent Wedding Party




Say Her Name




The Seamstress and the Wind




The Selected Stories of Mercè Rodoreda




Seven Years




The Shadow of What We Were




She-Wolves : The Women Who Ruled England before Elizabeth




Silver Sparrow




A Singular Woman: The Untold Story of Barack Obama’s Mother




The Sly Company of People Who Care




Smoking Typewriters: The Sixties Underground Press and the Rise of Alternative Media in America




Sobbing Superpower: Selected Poems of Tadeusz Rózewicz




The Social Animal: The Hidden Sources of Love, Character, and Achievement




Songs of Kabir




Space, in Chains




The Splendor of Portugal




Steve Jobs




Stone Arabia




The Stranger’s Child




The Summer Without Men




Swamplandia!




The Swerve: How the World Became Modern




Swim Back to Me




Tabloid City




Taller When Prone




The Tiger’s Wife




To End All Wars: A Story of Loyalty and Rebellion: 1914–1918




Tolstoy: A Russian Life




Tough Without a Gun: The Life and Extraordinary Afterlife of Humphrey Bogart




Townie: A Memoir




The Tragedy of Arthur




Traveler




The Trouble Ball




The Troubled Man




Twice a Spy




The Uncoupling




Unseen Hand




Vaclav and Lena




We, the Drowned




We Others: New and Selected Stories




When the Killing’s Done




Widow




A Widow’s Story: A Memoir




Words Made Fresh: Essays on Literature and Culture




The Words of Others: From Quotations to Culture




The Wrong War: Grit, Strategy, and the Way Out of Afghanistan




You and Three Others Are Approaching a Lake




You Think That’s Bad