Getting a Life (on John Donne: The Reformed Soul by John Stubbs; Being Shelley: The Poet’s Search for Himself by Ann Wroe; Thomas Hardy by Claire Tomalin; Edith Wharton by Hermione Lee; Thomas Wolfe: When Do the Atrocities Begin? by Joanne Marshall Mauldin; and Bernard Malamud: A Writer’s Life by Philip Davis)
The Omnivorous Omnibus (on Sleeping and Waking by Michael O’Brien; Halflife by Meghan O’Rourke; Time and Materials: Poems 1997–2005 by Robert Hass; Failure by Philip Schultz; Old Heart by Stanley Plumly)
The Poet’s Eye: Essays on Poetry (on Real Sofistikashun: Essays on Poetry and Craft by Tony Hoagland; The Art of Attention: A Poet’s Eye by Donald Revell; & The Art of the Poetic Line by James Longenbach)
