AltWeeklies Wire
In a New Book, Ethan Gilsdorf Tracks His Global Quest to Visit the Holiest Nerd-World Sitesnew
A former teenage Dungeons & Dragons nerd, author Ethan Gilsdorf has rediscovered his past obsession and gone global, making pilgrimage to the planet's temples of dorkdom, from a visit to Tolkien's home in the UK to a jam with Boston wizard rockers Harry and the Potters.
Boston Phoenix |
Mike Miliard |
10-01-2009 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
The Amazing Life and Mysterious Death of Peter Iversnew
You've probably never heard of Peter Ivers. But the Massachusetts-born, Harvard-educated free spirit was a sort of Zelig of the late-'60s-to-early-'80s pop-cultural scene. And somebody beat him to death.
Boston Phoenix |
Mike Miliard |
09-11-2008 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
Howard Zinn Never Figured He'd Be in a Comic Booknew
But there he is in the new A People's History of American Empire, in which artist Mike Konopacki and historian Paul Buhle commingle the scholarship of Zinn's A People's History of the United States with the personal recollections of his memoir, You Can't Be Neutral on a Moving Train.
Boston Phoenix |
Mike Miliard |
04-17-2008 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
Plunder, Pillage, and Profitnew
A provocative new book suggests big business could learn from young thieves.
Boston Phoenix |
Mike Miliard |
01-18-2008 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
Brit Witsnew
As Nick Hornby and Irvine Welsh face 50, two of Brit Lit's standard-bearers stare down middle age in very different ways.
Boston Phoenix |
Mike Miliard |
10-11-2007 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
A Hunger for Truthnew
Peter Behrens' personalized novel sheds new light on the Irish famine and provokes some nasty comparisons to Hurricane Katrina.
Boston Phoenix |
Mike Miliard |
09-21-2006 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Peter Behrens, The Law of Dreams
From the Ashesnew
With one of the better novels to come out of 9/11, Jay McInerney grows up.
Boston Phoenix |
Mike Miliard |
02-24-2006 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Jay McInerney, The Good Life
Tales of a Quitternew
A book-long narrative rather than the usual series of semi-epiphanic moments, The Quitter is the most substantive and rewarding look yet at the strangely compelling life of the Lake Erie everyman.
Boston Phoenix |
Mike Miliard |
09-30-2005 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
Punk Rock Prosenew
Punk rock, mental breakdowns, bucketloads of beer -- Jimmy Reject has figured out that it's one thing being a punk rocker, and it's another being on the outside of the world looking in.
Boston Phoenix |
Mike Miliard |
08-25-2005 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
The Man Who Rolled the Beatles' First Jointnew
Al Aronowitz says the '60s wouldn't have been the same without him. Now, as he types away alone in his cluttered New Jersey apartment, the "Blacklisted Journalist" looks back.
Boston Phoenix |
Mike Miliard |
12-03-2004 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
The Ebb and Flow of American Beer Culturenew
In a quixotic journey to find “The Perfect Beer Joint,” the novelist and long-time Wall Street Journal writer Ken Wells embarked on a perambulating journey down the length of the Mississippi River to see what he could see and sip what he could sip. Travels with Barley, the fizzy and flavorful travelogue that resulted, is appropriately intoxicating.
Boston Phoenix |
Mike Miliard |
11-22-2004 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
The Prodigal Fathernew
Nick Flynn creates a harrowing memoir about two men bound by blood and by the dark worlds they inhabit.
Boston Phoenix |
Mike Miliard |
09-24-2004 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
