Navigate Books of the Month: Reading Lists Drawing from Life by Joel Oppenheimer Red Lobster, White Trash and the Blue Lagoon: Joe Queenan's America by Joe McQueenan A Tangled Web: The Making of Foreign Policy in the Nixon Presidency by William Bundy Half and Half: Writers on Growing up Biracial and Bicultural edited by Claudine Chiawei O'Hearn Split: a Countercultural Childhood by Lisa Michaels Previous Books of the Month: May: WOMEN June: SUMMER

10 WINNERS OF THE FIRECRACKER ALTERNATIVE BOOK AWARDS In Awe by Scott Heim Ono Ono Girl's Hla by Lei-Lanilau Queer Dog: Homo Pup Poetry edited by Gerry Gomez Pearlberg The Zinn Reader by Howard Zinn Red Meat by Max Cannon Devil Babe's Big Book of Fun edited by Isabel Samaras The Ultimate Guide to Anal Sex for Women by Tristan Taormino Minimum Wage: Book 2--The Tales of Hoffman by Bob Fingerman Monk edited by Laurent de Wilde In Daddy's Arms I Am Tall: African Americans Celebrating Fathers edited by Javaka Steptoe LAST SEVEN NATIONAL BOOK AWARD NON-FICTION WINNERS American Sphinx: The Character of Thomas Jefferson by Joseph Ellis An American Requiem by James Carroll Facing Europe's Ghosts by Tina Rosenberg How We Die by Sherwin B. Nuland United States: Essays 1952-1992 by Gore Vidal Becoming a Man by Paul Monette Freedom by Orlando Patterson FIVE AMERICAN POETS WHO STUDIED AT BLACK MOUNTAIN COLLEGE IN NORTH CAROLINA Robert Duncan Robert Creely Jonathan Williams Denise Levertov Charles Olsen

 

originally published July 29, 1998