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Julie Cline, Senior Nonfiction Editor
American Eqyptologist: The Life and Times of James Henry Breasted and the Creation of His Oriental Institute
University of Chicago Press, December 2011. 536 pp.
How Much Land Does a Man Need
Translated by Boris Dralyuk
Calypso Editions, October 2010. 47 pp.
Fourth Estate, November 1993. 86 pp.
Michael Goetzman, Assistant Managing Editor
The Sense of an Ending
Knopf, October 2011. 176 pp.
New Paintings
Including six short-fiction essays by Wells Tower
Rizzoli, September 2011. 144 pp.
Birds of America: Stories
Vintage, January 2010. 291 pp.
Jonathan Hahn, Associate Editor
White Noise
Penguin Classics, December 29, 2009. 336 pp.
Saturday
Anchor Books, April 2006. 304 pp.
Graceland
Picador, January 2005. 321 pp.
E.A. Hanks, Associate Editor
Animal Farm: Centennial Edition
Foreword by Ann Patchett
Plume, May 2003. 128 pp.
His Dark Materials: The Golden Compass; The Subtle Knife; The Amber Spyglass
Everyman's Library, December 2011. 1,144 pp.
Habibi
Pantheon, September 2011. 672 pp.
C.P. Heiser, Associate Editor
Blue Nights
Knopf, November 2011. 208 pp.
The Prague Cemetery
Translated by Richard Dixon
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, November 2011. 464 pp.
Parallel Stories: A Novel
Translated by Imre Goldstein
Farrar, Straus and Giroux, October 2011. 1152 pp.
Brian Hewes, Digital Media and Marketing
Thinking, Fast and Slow
Farrar, Straus and Giroux, October 2011. 512 pp.
Letters from a Stoic
Translated by Robin Campbell
Penguin Books, July 1960. 254 pp.
Reamde: A Novel
William Morrow, September 2011. 1056 pp.
Evan Kindley, Managing Editor
The Verificationist: A Novel
Introduction by George Saunders
Picador, November 2011. 192 pp.
Little Did I Know: Excerpts from Memory
Stanford University Press, July 2010. 584 pp.
Wayne White: Maybe Now I'll Get The Respect I So Richly Deserve
Ammo, November 2010. 432 pp.
Tom Lutz, Editor in Chief
Where China Meets India: Burma and the New Crossroads of Asia
Farrar, Straus and Giroux, September 2011. 384 pp.
The Corpse Walker: Real Life Stories: China From the Bottom Up
Anchor, May 2009. 352 pp.
The Fear: Robert Mugabe and the Martyrdom of Zimbabwe
Back Bay, October 2011. 400 pp.
E.C. McCarthy, Associate Editor
Lucky Jim
Penguin Classics, January 2002. 272 pp.
Nightwood
New Directions, September 2006. 208 pp.
Suite Francaise
Translated by Sandra Smith
Vintage International, April 2007, 448 pp.
Mary Capello
Swallow: Foreign Bodies, Their Ingestion, Inspiration, and the Curious Doctor Who Extracted Them
The New Press, December 2010. 336 pp.
Gary Lachman
Jung the Mystic: The Esoteric Dimensions of Carl Jung’s Life and Teachings
Tarcher, June 2010. 272 pp.
Bryan Waterman
Television’s Marquee Moon (33 1/3)
Continuum, June 2011. 240 pp.
Megan Abbott
Die a Little
Simon & Schuster, February 2005. 256 pp.
Ellen Gilchrist
Victory Over Japan: A Book of Stories
Back Bay Books, September 1985. 277 pp.
John Jeremiah Sullivan
Pulphead: Essays
Farrar, Straus and Giroux, October 2011. 384 pp.
Horacio Castellanos Moya
Tyrant Memory
Translated by Katherine Silver
New Directions, June 2011. 288 pp.
Jane Gardam
Old Filth
Europa Editions, June 2006. 289 pp.
Jean-Claude Izzo
Total Chaos (Marseilles Trilogy)
Translated by Howard Curtis
Europa Editions, November 2005. 256 pp.
Julio Cortázar
Hopscotch
Translated by Gregory Rabassa
Pantheon, February 1987. 576 pp.
Ben Ehrenreich
Ether
City Lights, October 2011. 144 pp.
Dana Spiotta
Stone Arabia: A Novel
Scribner, July 2011. 256 pp.
Judith Freeman
Red Water: A Novel
Anchor, April 2003. 336 pp.
Charlie Hauck
Artistic Differences
William Morrow & Co, June 1993. 238 pp.
Stephen Sondheim
Look, I Made a Hat: Collected Lyrics (1981-2011) with Attendant Comments, Amplifications, Dogmas, Harangues, Digressions, Anecdotes and Miscellany
Knopf, November 2011. 480 pp.
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