A Convention of Things (on Desiring Flight by Christianne Balk; Living at the Epicenter by Allison Funk; Internal Strategies by Anita Feng; Loosestrife by Stephen Dunn; and Flying Blind by Sharon Bryan)
Constructing the Icons of Popular Culture (on Wanted Dead or Alive: The American West In Popular Culture, edited by Richard Aquila; Inventing the Public Enemy: The Gangster in American Culture, 1918-1934 by David E. Ruth; 100 Years on the Road: The Traveling Salesman in American Culture by Timothy B. Spears; Judgment and Grace in Dixie: Southern Faiths from Faulkner to Elvis by Charles Reagan Wilson; and God in the Stadium: Sports and Religion in America by Robert J. Higgs)
Does Style Make the Woman (on The Beacon Book of Essays by Contemporary American Women, edited by Wendy Martin; Wild Ride: Earthquakes, Sneezes and Other Thrills by Bia Lowe; Writing the World by Kelly Cherry; Field of Vision by Lisa Knopp; and Never in a Hurry: Essays on People and Places by Naomi Shihab Nye)
Nor Good Red Herring: Novellas and Stories (on What They Tell You to Forget: A Novella and Stories by Fred Pfeil; Flights in the Heavenlies by Ernest J. Finney; Solo Spinout: Stories and a Novella by Ann Nietzke; Because We Are Here by Chuck Wachtel; and Ship Fever and Other Stories by Andrea Barrett)
