Toxicology: A Novel

<h4>Rigoberto González is the author 17 books, most recently the poetry collection Unpeopled Eden, which won the Lambda Literary Award and the Lenore Marshall Prize from the Academy of American Poets. The recipient of Guggenheim, NEA and USA Rolón fellowships, a NYFA grant in poetry, the Shelley Memorial Award from the Poetry Society of America, The Poetry Center Book Award, and the Barnes &amp; Noble Writer for Writers Award, he is contributing editor for Poets &amp; Writers Magazine, and professor of English at Rutgers-Newark, the State University of New Jersey. He is also the recipient of the 2015 Bill Whitehead Award for Lifetime Achievement from the Publishing Triangle. As of 2016, he serves as critic-at-large with the L.A. Times.</h4>

Rigoberto González

Romeo Byron Is Dead: Jessica Hagedorn’s “Toxicology”

"Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities. Truth isn't." — Mark Twain

Fiction

Zone

<h4>Jacob Silverman is writing a book about social media and digital culture, which HarperCollins will publish next year.</h4>

Jacob Silverman

War Zone: Mathias Énard's "Zone"

The Cardboard Valise

Jeet Heer is a cultural critic and co-editor of Arguing Comics: Literary Masters on a Popular Medium (2004) and A Comics Studies Reader (2009). He is a contributing writer to the New Republic, and his essays have appeared in the Virginia Quarterly Review, the Literary Review of Canada, the Boston Globe, Slate, and numerous other publications.

Jeet Heer

The Ceiling Worker: Ben Katchor's "The Cardboard Valise"

"All lurid, unsavory, gruesome illustrations shall be eliminated." — Comics Code, 1954

Comics

Zero History

<h4>Sherryl Vint teaches at the University of California, Riverside. She co-edits the journals Science Fiction Studies, Science Fiction Film and Television and Humanimalia. She is the author of Bodies of Tomorrow and Animal Alterity, co-author of The Routledge Concise History of Science Fiction, and co-editor of the books The Routledge Companion to Science Fiction, Fifty Key Figures in Science Fiction and Beyond Cyberpunk.</h4>

Sherryl Vint

Advertising Degree Zero: William Gibson's "Zero History"

Michael Cunningham By Nightfall Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2010. 256 pp.

By Nightfall

<h4>Janet Fitch is a Los Angeles native and the author of&nbsp;White Oleander&nbsp;and&nbsp;Paint It Black. Her latest novel is a two-part epic, The Revolution of Marina M. and Chimes of a Lost Cathedral.</h4>

Janet Fitch

The Middle Years: Michael Cunningham's "By Nightfall"

Stephen King Full Dark, No Stars&nbsp; Scribner, November 2010. 384 pp.

Full Dark, No Stars

<h4>Christopher Rice is the author of four&nbsp;New York Times&nbsp;Bestselling novels, a contributing columnist to&nbsp;The Advocate&nbsp;for five years, and the recipient of a Lambda Literary Award for Best Mystery. His most recent thriller is&nbsp;The Moonlit Earth.</h4>

Christopher Rice

It's Good to be King

David Grossman
To the End of the Land
Translated from the Hebrew by Jessica Cohen.
Alfred A. Knopf. September, 2010. 592 pp.

To the End of the Land

Benjamin Balint, a writer and translator living in Jerusalem, has taught humanities in the Bard College program at Al-Quds University. He is the author of&nbsp;Running Commentary&nbsp;(PublicAffairs, 2010) and Kafka’s Last Trial (W. W. Norton), which is forthcoming in the fall.

Benjamin Balint

Flesh and Blood: David Grossman's "To the End of the Land"

A Cup of Tea: A Novel of 1917

A Cup of Tea

<h4>Jefferson Hunter is a professor of English and film studies at Smith College (Massachusetts).&nbsp; He has just completed a book titled <a href="http://www.amazon.com/English-Filming-Writing-Jefferson-Hunter/dp/0253221773" target="_blank">English Filming, English Writing</a>.</h4>

LARB is cooking up a storm!