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Author Finds the Tension Between Irony and Sinceritynew
Losers and loners populate the pages of an Atlantan's collection of short stories and a novella.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Thomas Bell |
11-23-2005 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
The Life of a Pretty Boynew
Tab Hunter was the pretty boy pin-up of an entire generation of teenage girls, and Hollywood spent much of the 1950s finding excuses to film him with his shirt off.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Thomas Bell |
10-20-2005 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
Gay Man Fired For Writing About Gay Porn Industrynew
Rich Merritt's sexuality was a non issue with his employers, the Atlanta law firm of Powell Goldstein LLP, until he informed them of the impending release of his autobiography, Secrets of a Gay Marine Porn Star, which includes graphic descriptions of the gay porn industry.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Thomas Bell |
08-11-2005 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
Nikki Giovanni and the Power of the Wordnew
Can we still call Nikki Giovanni an heir to Langston Hughes when the poet, activist, essayist and writer has long since given birth to many of her own literary heirs?
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Thomas Bell |
07-14-2005 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
Hollis Gillespie Disdains Shame With Recovering Slutnew
Gillespie's second book covers some of her early adventures in motherhood, including bullet-proofing the baby's bedroom with cake pans and getting diverted from a Nicaraguan brothel by the case of her daughter Mae's missing mittens.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Thomas Bell |
06-28-2005 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
Novel Has Deep Shadows and Sharp Edgesnew
Novelist Joshilyn Jackson explains how she developed her odd blend of Southern humor and violence.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Thomas Bell |
05-05-2005 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
Atlanta's Lost Boys, Nearly Four Years Laternew
As Mark Bixler tells it in his new book, The Lost Boys of Sudan, the story most of us have heard is true for some of the Lost Boys. For many of them it is not, but it's still the story they tell, having learned (or been coached) that Americans would only help them if their story was simple, dramatic and morally unambiguous.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Thomas Bell |
03-10-2005 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
He's a Carolina Pranksternew
The protagonist of Singleton's new novel, Mendal Dawes, grows up in the, uh, 100 percent fictional small mill town of Forty-Five, S.C., son to a brilliant if somewhat unbalanced trickster of an anarchist-liberal who continually disrupts the town's banal busybodies and proselytizing religious nuts. Turns out, Singleton is writing from experience.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Thomas Bell |
09-09-2004 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
