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In 'Scorch Atlas,' Blake Butler Rains Gravel and Glassnew
Blake Butler aims his telescope at the future, and if what he finds there and shows us in Scorch Atlas even approaches the truth, we can all only hope we won't be around to see it.
Boston Phoenix |
Nina Maclaughlin |
09-10-2009 |
Fiction
Ghost Writer: The Haunted World of Kelly Linknew
Link is the rare writer who's able to mix of-the-moment items, products, and activities with the eternal, the timeless: quests, coming of age, entering a new world, death, and the day-to-day mysteries of being human.
Boston Phoenix |
Nina MacLaughlin |
10-02-2008 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Kelly Link, Pretty Monsters
Overhead Bagage: David Foster Wallace, 1962-2008new
DFW possessed a brain that was crowded with doubt -- about his own ability, sure, and in the larger sense, the ability of any of us to adequately express anything.
Boston Phoenix |
Nina MacLaughlin |
09-18-2008 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
Tags: David Foster Wallace, obituaries
Obama Bicycle Cyclenew
Mat Honan will start your next online fad. If you're lucky.
Boston Phoenix |
Nina MacLaughlin |
02-29-2008 |
Politics
Touched by Gracenew
On Andre Dubus's unending gifts.
Boston Phoenix |
Nina MacLaughlin |
09-27-2007 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
Tags: andre dubus
Sorrow Floatsnew
Grief -- and a pervasive sense of doom -- drives this book.
Boston Phoenix |
Nina MacLaughlin |
03-01-2007 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
Mississippi Bluesnew
Ever wonder what became of all the tax dollars and personal donations you sent to the Gulf Coast over the past year in the wake of Hurricane Katrina?
Boston Phoenix |
Nina MacLaughlin |
08-28-2006 |
Disasters
My Blank Pagesnew
The lack of pre-release hype and author sightings on the media radar have made it possible to appreciate the writing in this short-story collection without getting bogged down in the Dave Eggers cult of personality.
Boston Phoenix |
Nina MacLaughlin |
04-14-2005 |
Fiction
Tags: of, a, Dave Eggers, How We Are Hungry, McSweeney's, Know, You, Genius, Heartbreaking, Our, Shall, Staggering, Velocity!, work
Fairy Dust: Jeanette Winterson Floats Awaynew
British novelist Jeannette Winterson's eighth novel marks a return to the trademark intimacy of her acclaimed earlier work. It’s cyclical, circular and surreal, and the Biblical lilt of it is counterbalanced by glimmering flimsiness.
Boston Phoenix |
Nina MacLaughlin |
04-13-2005 |
Fiction
Jonathan Safran Foer Discusses Extremely Loud and Incredibly Closenew
Jonathan Safran Foer talks about his new novel Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close, in which he makes September 11th the canvas for his portrait of the dimensions of tragedy.
Boston Phoenix |
Nina MacLaughlin |
03-24-2005 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
The SpongeBob SquarePants Movienew
The perfect timing and the self-aware absurdity translate to the big screen.
Boston Phoenix |
Nina MacLaughlin |
11-22-2004 |
Reviews
Local Colornew
Barbara Sutton finds an undeniable comedy in our darkest sorrows.
Boston Phoenix |
Nina MacLaughlin |
10-19-2004 |
Fiction
