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Little Nemo in Slumberland: Splendid Sundays 1905-1910 (Sunday Press)
A celebration of the great Winsor McCay's Sunday funnies! Why? Because Nemo in Slumberland has been printed in its original full-color and actual size for the very first time!

Inner Voices: selected poems 1963-2003; Paper Trail: selected prose 1965-2003 (Farrar, Straus & Giroux)

Richard Howard's extraordinary urbanity and sophistication are evident as he explores his influences: Henry James' winding syntax, Proust's evocation of a lost past, Whitman's teeming democracies....

Shalimar the Clown (Random House)
Although the history of Kashmir provides the backdrop of Salman Rushdie's new novel, it is a larger-than-life romance with larger-than-life characters--a version of Romeo and Juliet and the Ramayana. In this conversation, he describes the ways in which an historical conflict can determine the course of love.

Thirteen Ways of Looking at the Novel (Knopf)

Pax Atomica: poems (Ecco)

Campbell McGrath has figured out how to perform a wonderful trick: he writes ecstatic comic poetry about the decline of America...

Trance (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)

Christopher Sorrentino takes the Patty Hearst saga as the springboard for an exploration of the mass hypnosis of American culture. This novel about inter-generational warfare is written by the son of formidable avante-gardiste Gilbert Sorrentino.

Joyce Carol Oates says this novel was written as a tribute to her mother, who died last year. Clearer, simpler, less literary than Oates' other books, it was meant to be a novel her mother would have enjoyed....

The Master

(Scribner)

The winner of this year's Los Angeles Times award for fiction reveals the difficulties of writing about the life of Henry James...