Shelf Unbound book review magazines celebrates its one-year anniversary with the publication of its new August/September 2011 issue. Highlights of the issue include the following:

*Nom de Plume: a (secret) history of pseudonyms by Carmela Ciuraru from Harper Collins.
*The Word Made Flesh: Literary Tattoos from Bookworms Worldwide by Eva Talmadge and Justin Taylor from Harper Collins.
*The Late American Novel: Writers on the Future of Books, edited by Jeff Martin and C. Max Magee from Counterpoint Press.
*Dog Ear by Erica Baum from Ugly Duckling Presse.
*The Orange Suitcase by Joseph Riippi from Ampersand Books.
*The Suitcase by Sergei Dovlatov from Counterpoint Press.
*The Boy in the Suitcase by Lene Kaaberbol and Agnette Friis from Soho Press.
*Airplane Novel by Paul A. Toth from Raw Dog Screaming.
*Poetry After 9/11: An anthology of New York poets, edited by Valerie Merians and Dennis Loy Johnson, from Melville House.
*Memory Remains: 9/11 Artifacts at Hangar 17, photographs by Francesc Torres, from National Geographic.
*You Are My Heart and Other Stories by Jay Neugeboren, from Two Dollar Radio.
*Inside the Money Machine by Minnie Bruce Pratt from Carolina Wren Press.
*Spectacle & Pigsty by Kiwao Nomura from Omnidawn.
*Love at Absolute Zero by Christopher Meeks from White Whisker Books.
*Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children by Ransom Riggs from Quirk Books.
*Novel Places Bookstore in Montgomery County, MD
*The Vices by Laurence Douglas from Other Press.
*Bobby Fischer by Harry Benson from Powerhouse Books.
*Buzz Aldrin, What Happened to You in all the Confusion by Johan Harstad from Seven Stories Press.
*Leaving the Atocha Station by Ben Lerner from Coffee House Press.
*Wattpad Prize Winner “Obsidian” by J. Alexander Greenwood.

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