>I need a few recommendations for recent works of fiction that are
>worth reading. Any genre is acceptable, the only stipulation is that
>is has to be fiction and it has to be post 1995.
Why post 1995?
Anyway, here they are:
Fadhil Al-Azzawi, _Miracle Maker: The Selected Poems of Fadhil Al-Azzawi_, Trans. Khaled Mattawa, Rochester, NY: BOA Editions, Ltd., 2003 (which includes 12 poems from his 1998 book _A Moth on Its Way to Fire_ and 11 poems from his 2002 book _Bedouins under an Alien Sky_)
Karen Kovacik, _Beyond the Velvet Curtain_, Kent, Ohio: Kent State University Press, 1999 (poetry again!)
John Sanford, _Intruders in Paradise_, Champaign, Illinois: University of Illinois Press, 1997 (not so much a novel as a tapestry of historical vignettes that resonate with one another)
Naomi Wallace, _Slaughter City_, London: Faber and Faber, 1996 (it's a play -- transgender-socialist-surrealist!)
Natsuo Kirino, _Out_, Vintage, 2005 [originally published in 1998 in Japan] (class-conscious feminist pulp -- alas, translation is as lifeless as the corpse of her gambling, philandering husband that Yayoi dismembers with the help of her bento factory women co-workers, as you can see at <http://www.randomhouse.com/vintage/blacklizard/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=1400078377&view=excerpt>, but the heart of pulp fiction is the plot, not prose, so it's still worth reading) -- Yoshie
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