AltWeeklies Wire
Mike Sager's New Journalism Fills 'Donut Boys'new
Sager gives frontline reports on everything from the rapper Ice Cube to expat Vietnam vets in Thailand to suburban-Maryland Tupperware saleswomen.
INDY Week |
Adam Sobsey |
09-27-2007 |
Nonfiction
Professor Works Out His Salvation Through NASCARnew
Here is what many nonbelievers see when they glimpse a NASCAR race on television: A bunch of billboards on wheels turning left at insane speeds, perpetrating unconscionable air and noise pollution and pointless death, and wasting an increasingly precious natural resource.
INDY Week |
Adam Sobsey |
09-20-2007 |
Nonfiction
The South Through Two Booksnew
New Stories from the South, edited by Edward P. Jones, features fiction stories reveal the South may be just like the rest of the U.S. But James L. Peacock's Grounded Globalism argues that the South's identity helps it interact with the rest of the world.
Don't Judge this Book by its Whimsical Covernew
Wallace's fourth novel has a grim worldview -- remember, it may be dedicated to children, yet it isn't a children's book.
The All-embracing Fiction of Alex Mindtnew
Mindt wants to understand everything, even love everything -- and he wants to sing about it -- and his interests in Male of the Species are omnivorous and avid.
Tags: Alex Mindt, Male of the Species
A Fire Engine Rednecknew
The final, unfinished novel of the late, great Larry Brown.
Tags: A Miracle of Catfish, Larry Brown
Minority Leaguesnew
How integration came to the South via minor league baseball.
INDY Week |
Adam Sobsey |
04-06-2007 |
Nonfiction
An Original and Incisive Essay Collectionnew
A book by a poet about poetry should, above all, excite readers about poems, and that's what The Napkin Manuscripts does best.
INDY Week |
Adam Sobsey |
03-15-2007 |
Nonfiction
Ordinary Madnessnew
Parker is a natural comedian, his ear is keen and close to the ground, and his search for a soul-cure is so genuine, so devout, that his occasional aerobatics of purplish lyricism don't fly away with his stories.
