AltWeeklies Wire
A Hyperliterate Piss-Take?new
The story that Jason Roberts (who, not surprisingly, is a contributor to McSweeney’s) tells is apparently a true one.
Orlando Weekly |
Jason Ferguson |
06-22-2006 |
Nonfiction
The Big Book of Pornnew
Finally, a book about pornography that doesn't get buried in socio-scientific mumbo-jumbo about exploitation and instead focuses on the garish, classless fun of it all.
Orlando Weekly |
Jason Ferguson |
02-02-2006 |
Nonfiction
Being Arab in an Increasingly Hostile Worldnew
Infusing the personal into the political (or vice-versa), Ahdaf Soueif dances through the minefield of "Arab" identity in this remarkable collection of essays written over the past 20-plus years.
Orlando Weekly |
Jason Ferguson |
11-05-2005 |
Nonfiction
A Mystifying Failurenew
Cleverly titled, interestingly premised and poorly written, Small Mediums at Large is as promising as it is frustrating.
Orlando Weekly |
Jason Ferguson |
11-05-2005 |
Nonfiction
The Damage Donenew
Sex, drugs, murder, suicide ... the diary of this Hungarian author is a tale so sordid and depraved it seems very nearly a concoction of the writer's imagination.
Orlando Weekly |
Jason Ferguson |
11-05-2005 |
Nonfiction
The Strangeness of the Sunshine Statenew
If you think Northerners believe Florida is fucked-up now, wait until you read a late 19th-century journalist's wide-eyed tales of alligator-hunting, "music-loving cows" and "weak-kneed Democrats."
Orlando Weekly |
Jason Ferguson |
11-05-2005 |
Nonfiction
Shots: An American Photographer's Journal 1967-1972new
In a book filled with striking and provocative photos, perhaps the most striking and provocative is a shot of demonstrators behind a barricade during Nixon's 1969 inauguration.
Orlando Weekly |
Jason Ferguson |
07-15-2005 |
Nonfiction
This Ain't No Disco: New Wave Album Coversnew
Lacking focus, organization and in some cases clean artwork, this book comes off as a pet project undertaken by a New Wave nerd who badly wants to legitimize her 20-year-old record collection by turning the album covers into objets d'art.
Orlando Weekly |
Jason Ferguson |
07-15-2005 |
Nonfiction
The Devil's Work Is Good Worknew
Imagine working three days a week. Now imagine only working three of those weeks a month for, say, nine months a year. In Tom Hodgekinson's new book How to Be Idle, he says that's the way it should be.
Orlando Weekly |
Jason Ferguson |
07-14-2005 |
Nonfiction
Tags: How to be Idle, Tom Hodgekinson
