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Peaceful Warrior Empire Strikes Backnew

The first book of Dan Millman's Peaceful Warrior saga is now a feature film starring Nick Nolte.
Pacific Sun |
Jill Kramer |
05-25-2006 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
It's Baker, Not Rovenew

Palast knows who stole 2000 and 2004 -- and how they'll take 2008, too.
San Antonio Current |
Elaine Wolff |
05-24-2006 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Armed Madhouse, Greg Palast
Chapter & Versenew

Gentle but piercing, indirect but intimate, languorous but lusty -- Carl Phillips is a lot like his poetry.
Riverfront Times |
Malcolm Gay |
05-22-2006 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Carl Phillips
Unlocking Levelsnew
"This book is kind of a gamble -- it's flat-out irony; there's no respite."
The Georgia Straight |
John Burns |
05-15-2006 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
Talkin' 'Bout a Revolutionnew
Markos Moulitsas discusses the new grassroots.
LEO Weekly |
Marty Rosen |
05-15-2006 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
Ya Ya Ya!new
In the wake of the Kaavya Viswanathan scandal and other bad press, Castellucci stands up for
young adult fiction.
Montreal Mirror |
Juliet Waters |
05-12-2006 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Cecil Castellucci, Queen of Cool
Mean Snacks and Monkey Shitnew

We talk bananas with George Saunders.
L.A. Weekly |
Alec Hanley Bemis |
05-11-2006 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
Chewing the Fatnew
Schlosser discusses adapting the muckraking classic Fast Food Nation for readers as young as 11.
Willamette Week |
Karla Starr |
05-10-2006 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Chew on This, Eric Schlosser
Love and Other Catastrophesnew
Adverbs is a world of Lego blocks of unhappiness and isolation, endlessly reassembled -- plus, it's funny.
The Georgia Straight |
John Burns |
05-05-2006 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Adverbs, Daniel Handler
An Author Crushnew
All you really need to succeed as a novelist is ... everything possible -- dammit!
Willamette Week |
Karla Starr |
05-03-2006 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Benjamin Kunkel
Other Voices, Other Roomsnew

Schlesinger's collected Voice columns make for a surreal Gotham cross-section.
The Village Voice |
Jenny Davidson |
05-03-2006 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
Race in Your Facenew
Algernon Austin takes liberals and conservatives to task on race and racism.
New Haven Advocate |
Mark Oppenheimer |
05-01-2006 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
Lick It Upnew
The strange subculture of competitive eating casts a bright light on America's appetite.
Philadelphia Weekly |
Steve Volk |
05-01-2006 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
Some Poetnew

In the 50 years since his first book was published, John Ashbery has led the avant garde's poetry coup d'etat.
Valley Advocate |
Andrew Varnon |
04-28-2006 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
Tags: John Ashbery
Understanding Islamnew
Alsan, an Iranian-born scholar, has suddenly become something of a fashionable item, and not just because he knows how to wear a suit.
Los Angeles CityBeat |
Laila Kearney |
04-28-2006 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
Tags: No God But God, Reza Aslan