This Week's Acquisitions

(It could be that I wandered by the campus bookstore's remainder cart.)

• Jim Crace, Signals of Distress (Picador, 2004).  In the nineteenth century, an American ship runs into trouble off the English shore.  (Amazon [secondhand])
• Connie Willis, Blackout (Spectra, 2010).  In the late twenty-first century, historians do research the newfangled way: they travel through time.  However, a trek to the WWII era turns out to be problematic... (eBay)
• Isaac Babel, The Collected Stories of Isaac Babel, trans. Peter Constantine (Norton, 2002).  The complete short fiction.  (Barnes & Noble)
• Denis Johnson, Tree of Smoke (FSG, 2007).  Would-be CIA agent runs into trouble during the Vietnam era.  (Barnes & Noble)
• T. C. Boyle, A Friend of the Earth (Penguin, 2001). Environmentapocalyptosatirefic, set in twenty-first century Southern California.  Or what's left of it, anyway.  (Barnes & Noble)
• Robert Gorman, Catholic Apologetical Literature in the United States, 1784-1865 (Catholic U of America P, 1939).  Gorman's published doctoral dissertation on, um, Catholic apologetics in the USA, including literature imported from abroad.  (Amazon [secondhand])