| Title | Author | Publisher | Subject |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pen & Ink Press Driving Instructors at RALPH Animal Lovers The Rejection Slip Blues Outdated RALPH Kurt Vonnegut, A Life Are You DEAD? Letters We Never Finished Reading 600 million U.S Dollars in Iraq |
The Readers of RALPH | [Letters] |
Correspondence with the Magazine Concerning Previous Reviews, Articles, Poems, Readings, and Letters to RALPH |
| Twelve Hits from 2001 | The Editors of RALPH | [List] | Some of the Books Reviewed in RALPH Ten Years Ago |
| Baghdad Sketches* Journeys through Iraq | Freya Stark | (Tauris Parke Paperback) | A Woman's Lone Trips through The Middle East --- The Early 20th Century |
| The Bell Jar | Sylvia Plath | (Recorded Books) | The 1960s Manual on A College Girl's Life on the Way to a Slow Suicide |
| The Bestiary* Or, Procession of Orpheus | Guillaume Apollinaire X. J. Kennedy, Translator | (Johns Hopkins University Press) | Twenty-Six Animals Remembered by the Contemporary Poet |
| Crossing with the Virgin Stories from the Migrant Trail | Kathryn Ferguson, Norma A. Price, Ted Parks | (University of Arizona Press) | Thirty-Two Essays on Trying to Save Lives on the Arizona-Mexico Border |
| The Colossus, Daddy | Sylvia Plath | [Poems] | Two Great Poems by a Great Poet |
| Death is Not an Option | Suzanne Rivecca | (Norton) | Short Stories about Teachers, Social Workers and Nuns |
| Transformers 3: Dark of the Moon Trollhunter | Ralph H. Blum Dr. Phage | [Film Review] | Monsters Who Return Disguised as Our Cars |
| Reading with the Stars A Celebration of Books and Libraries | Leonard Kniffel | (Skyhorse/ALA) | Fourteen "Stars" Interviewed about the Worth of Libraries |
| Woodcraft Manual |
Christopher Bursk | [Poem] | His Father Remembered |
| Smells, Samarra | Freya Stark | [Reading] | Remembering Iraq and Kuwait from Eighty Years Ago |
| Stieglitz, Steichen, Strand Masterworks from the Metropolitan Museum of Art |
Malcolm Daniel | [Metropolitan Museum of Art/ Yale University Press] |
Three Great American Photographers and their Place in History |
| Lightning A Novel |
Jean Echenoz | (The New Press) | A Thinly Disguised Biography of the Eccentric Inventor, Nikola Tesla |
| The Tiger* A True Story of Vengence and Survival |
John Vaillant | (Vintage Books) | The Amur Tiger of Siberia Who Occasionally Feeds on People |
| Bound and Gagged[G] Pornography and the Politics of Fantasy In America |
Laura Kipnis | (Duke University Press) | The Rhyme and the Reason of Lurid Books and Movies |
| The Truth about Marie* | Jean-Philippe Toussaint | (Dalkey Archive) | An Independent Woman, Her Two Lovers, and A Very Independent Horse |
| Title | Author | Publisher | Subject |
|---|---|---|---|
| Students on Drugs Down Syndrome and Early Childhood Stimulation Programs Use of the Word "Hopefully" Letters We Never Finished Reading Your Loving and Caring Angel |
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| Editors Hits for Tomorrow | The Editors of RALPH | [List] | Some of the Books Proposed for our Upcoming Anthology |
| Barrio Boy*
40th Anniversary Edition | Ernesto Galarza | University of Notre Dame Press |
Memories of Crossing the Border In the Early Years of the Century |
|
The Comedy of Charlie Chaplin Artistry in Motion | Dan Kamin | (Scarecrow Press) |
Rare Insight into the Films and Personal Life of Charlie Chaplin |
|
Daughters of the Revolution A Novel | Carolyn Cooke | (Knopf) |
A Collection of Balmy Stories about the Balmy Residents of a New England College Town |
| The Drowned | Carsten Jensen | [Reading] | Young
Danish Sailors off to the Islands of Paradise |
|
Otherwise Known as the Human Condition Selected Essays and Reviews | Geoff Dyer | (Graywolf Press) |
A Fat Volume of Essays on Writers, Photographers, Morocco and The Best Doughnut in the World |
| History Thieves | Zinovy Zinik | (Seagull Books) |
A Short Autobiographical Sketch About Leaving Russia, Going to Israel, and Thinking about a Creative Worm |
|
Homo Habilis: The Tool-Maker | Kevin Ducey | [Poem] |
What Happened When Angels Appeared To Contemplate Our Toolbits |
|
A Lamp in the Darkness Illuminating the Path through Difficult Times | Jack Kornfield | (Sounds True) |
A Series of Guided Meditations Connected to the Earth |
|
Marshall McLuhan You Know Nothing of My Work! | Douglas Coupland | (Atlas & Co.) |
A Brief, Highly Subjective Life of the Media Master |
|
Capital of the World A Portrait of New York City In the Roaring Twenties | David Wallace | (Lyons Press) |
A Highly Subjective (And Quite Racy) View of Manhattan Nighty Years Ago |
| Say Butterfly | Ernesto Galarza | [Reading] |
Learning to be Part of the USA in 1900s Sacramento |
| Ode to My Socks |
Pablo Neruda Translated by W. C. Williams | [Poem] |
The Comfort of a Newly Knitted And Quite Warm Pair of Socks |
| Sometimes a Great Notion* | Ken Kesey | (Recorded Books) |
The Wonderful Story of The Epic Lives of a Logging Family in Oregon |
| Title | Author | Publisher | Subject |
|---|---|---|---|
| A Radio/Television Theory of the American Mind Surviving Blow Molds Amos Oz I am a girl Letters We Never Finished Reading About to End the Race |
The Readers of RALPH | [Letters] |
Correspondence with the Magazine Concerning Previous Reviews, Articles, Poems, Readings, and Letters to RALPH |
| More Editors Hits for Tomorrow | The Editors of RALPH | [List] | Some More Books Proposed for our Upcoming Anthology |
| Arthritis, Gin, Vinegar, Raisins and MSM | Sharon Gardner | [Reading] |
Some New and Traditional Cures for Arthritis |
| The Brothers Ashkenazi A novel | I. J. Singer | (Other Books) |
An Epic Tale of Jewish Families In Lodz, Poland --- 100 Years Ago |
| Felice Beato A Photographer on The Eastern Road | Anne Lacoste Fred Ritchin, Editors | (Getty Museum) |
Telling (and Showing) One of the Early Pioneers in War Photography |
| Learn World Calligraphy* Discover African, Arabic, Chinese, Ethiopic, Greek, Hebrew, Indian, Japanese, Korean, Mongolian, Russian, Thai, Tibetan Calligraphy, and Beyond | Margaret Shepherd | (Watson Guptill) | An Elegant Presentation of the Art of Over Twenty Calligraphies of the World |
| Chrismas Family Chronometer | András Gerevoch | [Poems] | Contemporary Hungarian Poetry |
| Green Clean
The Environmentally Sound Guide to Cleaning Your House |
Linda Mason Hunter Mikki Halpin | (Melcher Media) |
The Natural Way to Defeat A "Sick House" |
| Mummy on the Doorstep | Christine Boyka Kluge | [Poem] | Contemporary (Spooky) American Poetry |
| The Oriental Wife A Novel | Evelyn Toynton | (Other Books) |
The Story of Louisa A Refugee with a Tumor |
| In the Shadow of Freedom The Politics of Slavery In the National Capital |
Paul Finkleman Donald R. Kennon, Editors | (Ohio University Press) |
Ten Essays on the Effect of Slavery Smack-Dab in Washington, D.C. 1830 - 1861 |
| The Collywobbles | C. A. Amantea | [Article] |
Stomach Aches (and Antibiotics) in the Early Twenty-First Century |
| Unlikely Friendships Forty-Seven Remarkable Stories From the Animal Kingdom | Jennifer S. Holland | (Workman Publishing) | Odd Animal Pairings Pictured |
| Title | Author | Publisher | Subject |
|---|---|---|---|
| Virgin of Juquila Breathing in, Dust Calligraphy Cryptic Letters of the Month To Read From You Custom Women's Shoes Letters We Never Finished Reading Pastor James Ologbegbekilor |
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| Twelve Stars from 2011 | The Editors of RALPH | [List] | The Best Books (So Far) From this Rapidly Dwindling Year |
| Edmund Yaghjian A Retrospective |
Paul Matheny, Sharon Campbell |
(South Carolina State Museum) | Severl Dozen (Interesting!) Paintings From this Painter of South Carolina |
| The Forgotten Waltz A Novel |
Anne Enright | (Norton) | Love (and Semi-Sordid) Adultery from Recent Ireland |
| Shooting from the Hip Photographs and Essays |
J. Don Cook | (University of Oklahoma) | Sad Indians and Happy Children From the Plains of Oklahoma |
| The Undertaker's Daughter | Toi Derricotte | (University of Pittsburgh Press) | Bitter (and Loving) Poetry About a Scary Father |
| Arizona A Celebration of The Grand Canyon State |
Jim Turner | (Gibbs Smith) | Many Pictures (And A Few Platitudes) about The 48th State |
| Plugged A Novel |
Eoin Colfer | (Overlook) | A Detective Novel About Murder in the Lowlands of New Jersey |
| The Pocho SocietyField Guide to L. A. Monuments and Murals of Erased and Invisible Histories |
Sandra de la Loza | (University of Washington) | Seven or Eight Memorable Sites That Have Not Been Memorialized |
| The Necessity of Certain Behaviors* | Shannon Cain | (University of Pittsburgh) | Life Studies on Some Wonderful (Terrible) Families |
| Memoirs of a Dwarf[G] At the Sun King's Court |
Paul Weidner | (University of Wisconsin/ Terrace Books) |
Some Fascinating Tales From the Days (and Nights) Of Louis XIV |
| The Time Travellers | Jon Gallant | [Article] | "Conservatives" Being Co-opted By "Radicals" |
| Letter from Breslau Prison | Rosa Luxemburg | [Reading] | The Darkness of Night in Prison Contrasted with the Lightness of Being |
| On Tending a Drunker Mother | Shannon Cain | [Reading] | When your Mother Comes To Town on a Bender |
| In Memoriam | A. R. Ammons | [Poem] | The Sun in Our Lives |
| It's Not Armageddon | Cheryl Dumesnil | [Poem] | A Fire in the Mountain |
| Title | Author | Publisher | Subject |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Somme, The Coward Hugh Cecil Heathen and the Bible Cryptic Letters of the Month Letter from Timothy F. Geithner PET stretch blow moulding Letters We Never Finished Reading I have just two days to leave |
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| Twelve Hits | The Editors of RALPH | [List] | Reviews, Articles, Poems and Readings Called Up Most Often at Our Server |
| The Anatomy of Addiction* Sigmund Freud, William Halstead, And the Miracle Drug Cocaine | Howard Markel | (Pantheon) | Revelations about Cocaine Addiction And Two 20th Century Medical Pioneers |
| Bernard Maybeck* Architect of Elegance | Mark Anthony Wilson | (Gibbs Smith) | The Great California Architect Pictured and Described |
|
Dog Days A Year in the Oscar Mayer Wienermobile | Dave Ihlenfeld | (Union Square Press) | A Year of Misery Driving About in a Hot Frankfurter |
| As If We Were Prey | Michael Delp | (Wayne State University Press) | Eight Stories from the Heartland |
| New Stories from the Midwest |
Jason Lee Brown, Jay Prefontaine, Editors | (Ohio University/Swallow) | Twenty Stories, Including Ones by Chris Leslie Hynan, Carol K. Howell, Kim Brooks and James Magruder |
| My Dyslexia | Philip Schultz | (Norton) | The Poet Discovers (At Fifty-Eight!) Why He Had Trouble Reading |
| Call Me When You Land* | Michael Schiavone | (The Permanent Press) | A Single Mother Raising a Fifteen-Year-Old Boy |
| Kafka's Leopards | Moacyr Scliar | (Texas Tech University Press) | Going to Prague On a Bet and Meeting K. (in Person) |
|
The Somme The Coward[G] | A. D. Gristwood | (South Carolina) | Two Books on Trench Warfare By an Unknown English Writer |
| The High Halloween Days | Dr. Phage | [Article] | Halloween in a Kosher (Almost) Group Home |
| Field Rations | Mike Ervin | [Reading] | Detail on your Standard Food During a Demonstration for ADAPT |
|
You Can't ChopYour Mama Up in Massachusetts Not Even If You're Tired Of Her Cuisine | Michael Brown | [Poem] | Restrictions on Matricide In New England |
|
Shiva Goes Surfing Off Newfoundland | Francis S. Pickens | [Poem] | Falling in Love In Northern Waters |
| Title | Author | Publisher | Subject |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ford Foundation Grant Timothy --- or, Notes of an Abject Reptile Georges Lemaitre Cryptic Letters of the Month Dog Walkers Hello, Honey Rubber Belts Letters We Never Finished Reading United Nations Compensation |
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| Why Oh Why? | The Editors of RALPH | [List] | Our Favorite Paradoxes-of-the-Month |
|
And So It Goes Kurt Vonnegut: A Life | Charles J. Shields | (Henry Holt) | The Life of the Author of Slaughterhouse Five |
| The Centaur in the Garden* | Moacyr Scliar | (Texas Tech University) | Growing Up with a Half-a- Horse Body in Brazil |
|
The Kress Collection At the Denver Art Museum | Angelica Daneo | (University of Oklahoma) | A Hundred Paintings, Panels, Drawings And Sculptures from the Pre-Renaissance |
| Dumb Luck | Lesley Choyce | (Red Deer) | A Lottery Ticket for $3,000,000 --- and How It Screws You Up |
| [Sic]: A Memoir* | Joshua Cody | (Norton) | Getting Cancer in Mid-Life And Surviving |
|
Mending New and Selected Stories | Sallie Bingham | (Sarabande) | Stories on Bickering and June/December Love |
|
The Other Walk: Essays | Sven Birkerts | (Graywolf Press) | Essays on Writing and Children and Writing and Ladders and Writing |
|
The Spiritual Doorway
To the Brain A Neurologist's Search For the God Experience | Kevin Nelson | (Dutton) | Out-of-Body and Near-Death Experiences and Scientific Explanations to Shoo Them All Away |
|
The Past from Above[G] Aerial Photographs of Archaeological Sites | Georg Gerster Charlotte Trümpler, Editors | (The J. Paul Getty Museum) | 250 Arhceological Sites As Photographed frm Above |
| The Concert-Going Life | Dr. Phage | [Article] | How to Sneak into The Rich Seats from The Aerie |
| A Vision Of Dying | Joshue Cody | [Reading] | The Vision from Your Death-Bed |
|
Self Diagnosis and
Treatment Tremors | Andrea Cohen | [Poems] | Surviving Earthquakes And Marriage |
| At Lolita's Cafe | Carlos Amantea | [Reading] | Hanging Out in a Low-Life Bar On the Coast of Mexico |