AltWeeklies Wire
Jim Hightower on Activism and Obamanew
"The significant thing about the Obama phenomenon isn't Obama but the phenomenon -- the fact that we've got millions of people, including a whole bunch of young folks and people who haven't been voting in the past, who believe that change really is possible. And not because of him."
INDY Week |
Bob Geary |
04-17-2008 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
Edie Sedgwick is Deadnew
But empty celebrity is alive and well. Often donning full drag, Justin Moyer uses the poor little rich girl persona to address how we understand celebrity and as a vehicle for the empty celebration of decadence and fame.
INDY Week |
Robbie Mackey |
02-14-2008 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
'No Easy Victories' Documents Struggles for African Liberationnew
The book is a veritable encyclopedia of the triumphs and tragedies of the international movements for African liberation that attracted Americans from the civil rights, feminist and antiwar movements throughout the 1960s and '70s and made its biggest impact in the ultimately successful anti-apartheid movement of the 1970s and '80s.
INDY Week |
Gerry Canavan |
01-24-2008 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
Paul Krugman on American Inequalitynew
The Conscience of a Liberal is an indictment of "movement conservatives" -- going back to such seminal figures as William F. Buckley and Ronald Reagan -- who've ushered in a second Gilded Age of economic inequality in America.
INDY Week |
Bob Geary |
11-16-2007 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
A Metaphysical Evening with Rebecca Stottnew
Stott is an academic -- she teaches creative writing and her first book was about Darwin's study of barnacles -- but during our tete-a-tete, she revealed herself to be something of a mystic as well.
INDY Week |
Brian Howe |
06-22-2007 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Ghostwalk, Rebecca Stott
The Life All Around Hernew
In response to pleading fans who fell in love with Ellen Foster, 20 years later Gibbons presents a 15-year-old Ellen in the sequel, The Life All Around Me By Ellen Foster.
INDY Week |
Virgina Daniel |
01-26-2006 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
Real Men Wear Pinknew
Founder of Code Pink Medea Benjamin says it's time to start planning to stop the next war, and to build a sustainable economy without oil.
INDY Week |
Bob Geary |
06-30-2005 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
Novel about Dancer Explores Russian and Gay Culturesnew
Colum McCann's 2003 historical novel describes dancer Rudolph Nureyev as an "international mongrel," someone who travels the world and is comfortable everywhere and nowhere at the same time.
INDY Week |
Byron Woods |
08-07-2004 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
