Tag Archives: first-published

PETRONA: Book Review: Midnight Cab by James W. Nichol

Midnight Cab By James W. Nichol (Canongate 2005, first published in Canada 2002). Walker Deveraux is a nineteen-year old man, about to leave his mother, father and six sisters and their house in the small town of Big River, ...
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PETRONA: Book Review: American Visa by Juan de Recacoechea

American Visa by Juan de Recacoechea Translated by Adrian Althoff. Publisher, Akashic Books, 2007 (first published in Spanish, 1994). A taxi grinds to a halt in the middle of crammed street parties and demonstrations in downtown La Paz, ...
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Book Review: Beyond Kung Fu: Breaking an Opponent's Power Through …

My review of Fong's Beyond Kung Fu is up at Blogcritics. Article first published as Book Review : Beyond Kung Fu: Breaking an Opponent's Power Through Relaxed Tension by Leo T. Fong on Blogcritics. Since returning from my travels I've ...
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PETRONA: Book Review: Almost Blue by Carlo Lucarelli

Almost Blue by Carlo Lucarelli, translated from the Italian by Oonagh Strasky First published in Italy, 1997; first published in translation in the UK, 2003 (Harvill Press/Vintage) When you've just finished reading a 700-page ...
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PETRONA: Book Review: Almost Blue by Carlo Lucarelli

Almost Blue by Carlo Lucarelli, translated from the Italian by Oonagh Strasky First published in Italy, 1997; first published in translation in the UK, 2003 (Harvill Press/Vintage) When you've just finished reading a 700-page ...
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Dodgeblogium » Book review… A Havana Harvest of good writin'

Article first published as Book Review : Havana Harvest by Robert Landori on Blogcritics. It's very rare that I get a review book and know I am going to enjoy within the first 10 pages. Havana Harvest was one of the exceptions. ...
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PETRONA: Book Review: The Past is a Foreign Country by Gianrico …

The Past is a Foreign Country By Gianrico Carofiglio, translated by Howard Curtis. Published by Old Street, 2007 (first published in Italy 2004). Gianrico Carofiglio has written three excellent novels* in a series set in the Italian ...
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Therese Raquin – Book Review – caribousmom

Therese Raquin – Book Review . Apr 21st, 2010. by Caribousmom. Therese Raquin, by Emile Zola Translated from the French by Robin Buss ISBN: 978-0-140-44944-0. First published 1867. This translation first published 2004 (Penguin Books) ...
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Book Review « Windows Toward the World

I have a book review of Paternity, Scott Owens new poetry book, up at The New Book Review . Paternity is available at Main Street Rag. This review was first published in The Dead Mule School of Southern Literature. ...
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Small Press Spotlight on Andy Ristaino at Cartoon Art Museum

Media Release -- Beginning on December 19th, 2009 through March 14, 2010, the Cartoon Art Museum's ongoing Small Press Spotlight will feature the art of Andy Ristaino. Andy Ristaino is a cartoonist and animator currently residing in the San Francisco. Originally from Franklin, Massachusetts, he has been drawing comics ever since he could. His first published work, a comic strip based on Greek myths entitled Myth Conceptions, appeared in The Pompeiiana Newsletter when he was in high school between 1992 and 1994. He attended the Rhode Island School of Design majoring in illustration/animation, during which time he self published two issues of his martial arts comedy zine Nightblade The Nearsighted Ninja, and drew a back up story featuring the character Dangerman, in Oz Squad from Patchwork Press. Read more
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