B
elow is a fabulously incomplete list of books that we'd like to cover in Exacting Clam with a review, interview, or other feature, but don't yet have a writer lined up for.
Please note:
☞ If you’re a publicist, author, or publisher and want to tell us about your book, please feel free to pitch it to us, in the baseball or cricket sense—manually, thoughtfully, selectively, gracefully arcing the publicity-tainted projectile toward us, rather than subjecting us to an indifferent bombardment which would cause us to retreat sullenly into our calcified shell. The address is reviews@exactingclam.com.
☞ Do you see a book on this list you want to review? Contact us at once! We'll get you a copy of the book, if we can. Your name will appear in bright lights—all Clam book reviews are published online as well as in print, and in heaven as well as on earth. (A partnership with hell is in the works for Q4.)
☞ If you have an already completed review to submit (whether or not you've been in touch with us about it before, as per above) submit it to us straightaway through our Oleada reviews channel.
☞ Do you, as a disinterested but concerned literary citizen, feel we ought to add a certain neglected book to this list? Let's have an entertaining though perhaps profoundly unproductive conversation.
☞ Books listed here will mostly be frontlist or near-frontlist titles of fiction, poetry and literary nonfiction, many of them from small presses. However, we are glad to cover any books that deserve attention: backlist, out-of-print, and books that have not been translated into English, but should be. (We'll even review books that, as far as we can tell, you can't possibly buy.) And we welcome coverage of other categories of books, especially those with relevance to the arts.
Alfred Jarry: Speculations, translated by R.J. Dent. Black Scat Books, 2022
Thomas Kendall: Autodidacts. Whisk(e)y Tit, 2022
K. Hank Jost: Deselections. Whisk(e)y Tit, 2022
Paul Griffiths: let me tell you. Henningham Family Press, 2023
Paul Griffiths: let me go on. Henningham Family Press, 2023
Wendy Walker: Sexual Stealing. Temporary Culture, 2021
Israel Bonilla: Sleep Decades. Malarkey Books, 2024
David Galef: Where I Went Wrong. Regal House Publishing, 2025
Iván Argüelles: The Unfinished Breath (in 2 vols). Luna Bisonte Prods, 2023
Kirstin Mosher: Zero (minutes to) Home. selektion, 2024
Alina Stefanescu: My Heresies. Sarabande, 2025
Eric Weiskott: Cycle of Dreams. punctum, 2025
Dan O'Brien: True Story: A Trilogy. Dalkey Archive, 2023
Jess Cotton: John Ashbery. Reaktion Books, 2023
Alan Felsenthal (editor): Bookworm: Conversations with Michael Silverblatt. Song Cave, 2023