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God Is (or Rather Isn't) In the Detailsnew

Victor J. Stenger searches for evidence of a higher power in his new bestseller -- is it time to issue a theological Amber Alert?

Boulder Weekly | Vince Darcangelo | 03-20-2007 | Author Profiles & Interviews

Tags: God: The Failed Hypothesis, Victor J. Stenger

War and Redemptionnew

An interview with poet Kevin Young, whose newest collection, For the Confederate Dead, tackles American history, grief and redemption.

Sacramento News & Review | Kel Munger | 03-15-2007 | Author Profiles & Interviews

Tags: For the Confederate Dead, Kevin Young

Hey -- You Can't Draw That!new

David Wallis finds a Fourth-rate Estate in his new book, which contains nearly 100 editorial cartoons and other works of art that American newspaper editors have refused to publish.

Pasadena Weekly | Joe Piasecki | 03-12-2007 | Author Profiles & Interviews

Tags: David Wallis, Killed Cartoons: Casualties from the War on Free Expression

Death and the Poetnew

Nearing the end of a singular life, Ric Masten embraces the thing that will kill him.

Monterey County Weekly | Mark C. Anderson | 03-08-2007 | Author Profiles & Interviews

Tags: Ric Masten

A Talk with Judy Stonenew

The respected journalist dishes her views on film, books, and imbeciles.

San Francisco Bay Guardian | Sara Scheiron | 03-07-2007 | Author Profiles & Interviews

Tags: Judy Stone, Not Quite a Memoir: Of Films, Books, the World

Love, Lethem, Lovenew

The Fortress of Solitude author Jonathan Lethem writes a romance, kind of.

Chicago Newcity | Tom Lynch | 03-07-2007 | Author Profiles & Interviews

Tags: Jonathan Lethem, You Don't Love Me Yet

The Author Your Chuch Doesn't Want You to Readnew

Leedom and co-author "Maria Murdy" try to bring unity to people of different religious faiths -- for this they will face the wrath of believers ... again.

OC Weekly | Matt Coker | 03-05-2007 | Author Profiles & Interviews

Tags: The Book Your Church Does Not Want You to Read II, Tim Leedom

America v. Bushnew

Former federal prosecutor Elizabeth de la Vega says she's got the goods to put Bush behind bars.

Pasadena Weekly | Kevin Uhrich | 03-05-2007 | Author Profiles & Interviews

Tags: Elizabeth de la Vega, United States v. George W. Bush et al.

Sex and Religion, Faith and Skepticismnew

Elif Shafak is part of a new generation of Turks who are taking the novel -- a form which came to them from the West -- and using it to reimagine their society from within.

Weekly Alibi | John Freeman | 02-27-2007 | Author Profiles & Interviews

Tags: Elif Shafak, The Bastard of Istanbul

Bill McKibben's Americanew

Unless you sought out something specifically to avoid it, whatever you're consuming right now probably came from somewhere pretty far away -- McKibben says this is what's wrong with America.

LEO Weekly | Stephen George | 02-27-2007 | Author Profiles & Interviews

Tags: Bill McKibben, Deep Economy

Pressing the Issuenew

Gene Roberts talks about The Race Beat, a protracted inquiry into the purposes of journalism, a probing social and cultural history, and a meditation on the value of "objectivity."

Boston Phoenix | Adam Reilly | 02-22-2007 | Author Profiles & Interviews

Tags: Gene Roberts and Hank Klibanoff, The Race Beat