AltWeeklies Wire
3rd Degree: John Deannew
The author and onetime Watergate figure on the crimes of Bush, the real Dick Cheney, and Nixon as environmentalist.
Los Angeles CityBeat |
Steve Appleford |
10-19-2007 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Broken Government, John Dean
Carl Bernstein's Epic Hillary Talenew
All the President's Men co-author Bernstein turns in a 648-page unauthorized biography about a well-known woman he claims nobody really knows -- we get to the heart of why Bernstein wrote it and what the reaction has been.
Salt Lake City Weekly |
Jerre Wroble |
10-18-2007 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
Dr. Oliver Sacks on 'Musicophilia'new
Sacks' latest book tackles our intimate mental connection to all things musical. It dallies in the minds of inspired amnesiacs and melodious Alzheimer's patients in an effort to explain just what it is about music that can move us so profoundly.
Willamette Week |
Claire Evans |
10-17-2007 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
Alberto Manguel on Optimismnew
The anthologist, essayist, and translator argues that in stories we can find our salvation.
The Georgia Straight |
John Burns |
10-12-2007 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Alberto Manguel, The City of Words
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
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
David Sedaris Is Taking Notesnew
While we're still months away from pulling out our Christmas tree, David Sedaris is sitting at his home in Paris, wrapping presents. The popular humorist will be stateside for a month as he tours the country with nightly readings of fresh material with his notoriously nasal, yet powdered delivery.
Charleston City Paper |
Greg Hambrick |
10-03-2007 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
Tags: David Sedaris, NPR
Alice Walker Opens Children's Eyes to Realities of Warnew
Kids and grownups everywhere are lucky Harper Collins was willing to print Why War is Never a Good Idea's thought-provoking eloquence.
Weekly Alibi |
Marisa Demarco |
10-02-2007 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
Mark Z. Danielewski Frustrates Critics, Dyslexicsnew
Depending on who you ask, Mark Z. Danielewski's House of Leaves is either the greatest literary achievement since Finnegans Wake, or a hopelessly pretentious gimmick -- his latest book, Only Revolutions, widens the divide even more
Dig Boston |
Mark Baumer |
09-27-2007 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
Jennifer Worick: Seattle's Busiest Author?new
Worick has little patience for authors trying to crank out the Great American Novel; she's too busy getting published — about 20 books, by her count, over the past half-dozen years.
Seattle Weekly |
Brian Miller |
09-25-2007 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
Poet Pens Subversive Detective Stories Set in Chinanew
Qiu Xiaolong's creative and personal life has long been shaped by the politics of his communist homeland. It was politics that first pushed him to write and study poetry, and later induced him to immigrate to the United States.
Riverfront Times |
Malcolm Gay |
09-24-2007 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Qiu Xiaolong, Red Mandarin Dress
John Dean Talks Fundamentals and Fundamentalistsnew
The former counsel to President Nixon turned Watergate prosecution witness has produced a third volume in his campaign against the modern Republican party.
San Antonio Current |
Elaine Wolff |
09-20-2007 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
'Dukecity Sign*' Captures the Soul of Alburquerquenew
How a strange, self-published book of awful, full-color photographs of signs became an astonishingly original homage to the true soul of a city.
Weekly Alibi |
Steven Robert Allen |
09-18-2007 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Ben Adams, Dukecity Sign*
Naomi Klein Looks at Shock Wave Troopers in New Booknew
The Shock Doctrine exposes the economic ambulance chasers who take advantage of natural and economic disasters worldwide.
The Georgia Straight |
Brian Lynch |
09-11-2007 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
Inside the Student Trapnew
Daniel Brook on the plight of young idealists in a new America.
New Haven Advocate |
Freda Moon |
09-04-2007 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
