AltWeeklies Wire
The Books Issue 2012new
Excerpts from Mitch Ryder's memoirs, poetry from Terry Blackhawk, a Q&A with co-author Steve Babson on a biography of attorney Ernie Goodman, pulp fiction from the mean streets of Detroit and suburban Ferndale, and more.
Metro Times |
Mitch Ryder, W. Kim Heron, Michael Jackman, Christa Buchanan and Dan Merritt |
03-21-2012 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
Revisiting W. Eugene Smith's Obsessive Archives from a Swinging Placenew
In the late '50s, world-famous (and drug-addicted) photographer W. Eugene Smith retreats to a Manhattan building at the artsy intersection of high-life and low-life, a building of artists' and musicians' lofts. Over eight years he shoots something like 1,500 rolls of film and records 1,700 reels of tape. A fascinating sampling of photos and tape transcripts is now available.
Metro Times |
W. Kim Heron |
11-25-2009 |
Books
Juan Cole: Afghanistan 'Needs a Light Touch'new
"You just have to accept that there's going to be a certain amount of disorder in the countryside as long as people are organized tribally. And if you put 100,000 or 150,000 Western troops in there, that's just more people to feud with."
Metro Times |
Curt Guyette and W. Kim Heron |
11-17-2009 |
War
A Journalist Travels Into the Kinky and the Perversenew
In his new book, Daniel Bergner delves into five lives that few would be able to call less than extreme erotically, and in the most extreme of these, criminally disturbing.
Metro Times |
W. Kim Heron |
02-17-2009 |
Nonfiction
What's God Got To Do with It?: Ron Aronson and the Politics of Religionnew
The author of books on Marxism and the French existentialists now turns to the idea of an America that's been cowed by the religious right, but that is not, in fact, so religious as most of us have been led to believe.
Metro Times |
W. Kim Heron and Curt Guyette |
01-07-2009 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
The Rise and Fall of Kwame Kilpatricknew
The tragic-comic tale of the mayor of Detroit.
Metro Times |
Curt Cuyette, W. Kim Heron and Sean Bieri |
09-16-2008 |
Politics
Arms Expert Scott Ritter Says the U.S. Plans to Attack Irannew
With each passing week, it seems there are more stories raising the specter of George Bush turning Afghanistan and Iraq into a bloody trifecta and attacking Iran. We talk to former UN arms inspector Scott Ritter whose book Target Iran warns of impending war.
Metro Times |
Curt Guyette and W. Kim Heron |
11-29-2007 |
War
Don Cherry Quintet Asserts Its Skills on Live Albumnew
Ornette Coleman may have started the free jazz thing, circa 1960, but trumpeter Don Cherry was the Johnny Appleseed of Ornetteology, sharing and extending his boss's ideas on both sides of the Atlantic.
Metro Times |
W. Kim Heron |
09-11-2007 |
Reviews
Pagliacci in the Hoodnew
Jordan's new book focuses on the lyrics of Motown.
Metro Times |
W. Kim Heron |
01-12-2007 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
From 'Dreamgirls' to City Schoolsnew
Motown is burning up screens with Dreamgirls, a musical razzle-dazzle of truths, half-truths, truisms, unsubstantiated rumors, myths and plain-ol' fictions loosely based on the house that Berry built.
Metro Times |
W. Kim Heron |
01-12-2007 |
Commentary
Juan's Worldnew
Middle East scholar Juan Cole discusses the tightrope we're walking.
Metro Times |
Curt Guyette and W. Kim Heron |
02-27-2006 |
International
Tags: war in iraq, War on terror
