This Week's Acquisitions

(I did indeed go to the Strand while in NYC.)

Stevie Davies, Four Dreamers and Emily (St. Martin's, 1997). Bronteites find themselves (and others) at a conference. (Amazon [secondhand])
Joyce Carol Oates, Wild Nights!: Stories About the Last Days of Poe, Dickinson, Twain, James, and Hemingway (Ecco, 2008). Deaths of various American literati. (Lift Bridge)
Elsa Morante, History: A Novel, trans. William Weaver (Steerforth, 2000). Italians struggle to survive during WWII. (Strand)
Jonathan Lethem, Girl in Landscape (F&F, 2004). Adolescent girl leaves Brooklyn behind, grows up on another planet. (Strand)
Daphne du Maurier, Rebecca (Harper, 1997). Recent reprint of ultra-popular, Brontesque Gothic romance. (Strand)
Jean Stafford, The Collected Stories of Jean Stafford (FSG, 2005). Reprint of Stafford's Pulitzer Prize-winning collection. (Strand)
Patrick McGrath, Trauma (Knopf, 2008). Psychiatrist finds things going awry in the most recent of McGrath's neo-Gothics. (Strand)
Jerome Charyn, Johnny One-Eye: A Tale of the American Revolution (Norton, 2008). Satirical picaresque set in Manhattan during the Revolution. (Strand)
Benjamin Black [a.k.a. John Banville], The Silver Swan: A Novel (Holt, 2008). Second novel in Black's/Banville's projected noir trilogy about Garret Quirke. (Strand)
Alex Warwick and Martin Willis, eds., Victorian Literature Handbook (Continuum, 2008). Introductory essays/case studies in historical, theoretical, and critical topics; features an essay by yours truly. (Continuum [author's copy])