AltWeeklies Wire
Writer Collaborates With Iraqi Refugee to Tell a Different Story From Iraqnew
What Justin Sirois wanted to do was offer a different perspective of the war that wasn't being as accessibly covered in conventional war journalism. He wanted to argue that there might be more going on than journalism can offer. He wanted to tell a different story.
Baltimore City Paper |
Bret McCabe |
12-21-2009 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
Louis Maistros Weaves a Luring Tale from New Orleans in 'The Sound of Building Coffins'new
To risk stating the obvious, the Big Easy has a long and complicated relationship with water, both its redemptive and destructive qualities. The two go hand-in-hand, to judge from reading the gritty and sometimes surreal second novel from Louis Maistros.
Baltimore City Paper |
Joab Jackson |
07-28-2009 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
Poet Grace Cavalieri Projects Herself Into Her Latest Famous Womannew
In her latest book of poems, Anna Nicole, the poems are delivered from the imagined perspective of Anna Nicole Smith, the tabloid celebrity known for her Playboy spreads, her marriage to a millionaire 63 years her senior, and for her own TV reality show. So it's appropriate that the book's cover is a deliberately garish painting that gives the pin-up model magenta hair and green eyes.
Baltimore City Paper |
Geoffrey Himes |
12-09-2008 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
'In Search of Bill Clinton' Revisits the Monica Affairnew
Was Bill Clinton's affair with Monica Lewinsky merely the weakness of an inveterate horndog -- or something else? Psychologist John D. Gartner explains.
Baltimore City Paper |
Violet Glaze |
12-02-2008 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
National Security Agency Expert James Bamford Talks Secrets and Liesnew
The Shadow Factory: The Ultra-Secret NSA from 9/11 to the Eavesdropping on America presents an account of the drastic and ominous shift in the agency's mission and tactics over the past seven years.
Baltimore City Paper |
Lee Gardner |
11-14-2008 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
'The B List' Celebrates The So-Called Lower Rung of Auteursnew
If you're looking for a guide through film's funkier tributaries, this is intellectual criticism written with the urgency of a fan juiced to share some odd object of infatuation with a world that likely missed it the first time around.
Baltimore City Paper |
Jess Harvell |
11-04-2008 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
The Tirelessly Prolific Laura Lippman Enters The Superstar Stage of Her Careernew
Lippman has reached Joyce Carol Oates proliferation levels lately.
Baltimore City Paper |
Wendy Ward |
10-14-2008 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
Arthur Jones Charts the Rocky Life of M. Scott Pecknew
Peck rarely practiced what he preached in his master work, The Road Less Traveled.
Baltimore City Paper |
Violet Glaze |
07-08-2008 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
Mathematics Professor Manil Suri Finds Success in Novel Trilogynew
In his small, spare office in the inner halls of the UMBC Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Suri is carefully juggling two lives.
Baltimore City Paper |
John Barry |
04-29-2008 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
Brimming Jugnew
The complete novels of Flann O'Brien -- that funniest of Ireland's literary greats.
Baltimore City Paper |
John Lingan |
03-18-2008 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Flann O'Brien
Noir Treknew
Kevin Johnson's impromptu career in rare books has turned out a lovely crime-fiction tome.
Baltimore City Paper |
Bret McCabe |
03-04-2008 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Kevin Johnson, The Dark Page
The Listenernew
Robert Cataliotti's lifelong passion for music and literature fused into an academic career.
Baltimore City Paper |
Petula Caesar |
02-12-2008 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
Matt Taibbi Showa Disgust for Media Establishmentnew
His jabs and swipes at the modern-day booboisie are merciless and incisively written, and a pleasure to read from start to finish -- as visceral as political commentary gets.
Baltimore City Paper |
Robbie Whelan |
11-13-2007 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
Blaine Taylor's Bunker Mentalitynew
As Ken Burns' latest monolith airs on PBS, a Maryland writer shows human side of different front.
Baltimore City Paper |
John Barry |
10-09-2007 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
The Calvert Institute's George Liebmann Preaches Thinking Locallynew
The Trimmer's Almanac is a history of Baltimore's conservative think tank and includes articles that hash out policy problems and often move toward solutions.
Baltimore City Paper |
John Barry |
09-04-2007 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
