AltWeeklies Wire
Author Tyler Gray on His Lou Pearlman Exposenew
From Lou Pearlman's first failings as an unscrupulous blimp salesman through the investment schemes, modeling agencies, airlines and entertainment ventures, Gray details how this tubby, disingenuous kid from Queens used deception and deflection to live a life he truly did not deserve.
Orlando Weekly |
Jason Ferguson |
10-30-2008 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
Not to Be Overlookednew
Pamuk is best known for one controversy -- his continuing campaign for recognition of the Armenian genocide has made him a pariah to many in Turkey.
Orlando Weekly |
Jason Ferguson |
07-06-2006 |
Fiction
Tags: Orhan Pamuk, The Black Book
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
Schoolboy Turned Guerrillanew
Told from the perspective of a young boy coerced into militancy by an indiscriminately violent civil war that overtakes his never-named African country, Beasts of No Nation is far more than just a treatise on the far-reaching effects of war.
Orlando Weekly |
Jason Ferguson |
12-01-2005 |
Fiction
The Nonagenarian and the Virginnew
Ten years is a long time to wait, and 115 small pages is something of an insult to the patient few still hoping to find resonance and relevance in Gabriel Garcia Marquez's increasingly repetitive oeuvre.
Orlando Weekly |
Jason Ferguson |
12-01-2005 |
Fiction
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
