AltWeeklies Wire
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
Hunting the Wild Klostermannew
Things about the pop-culture writer that are true, things that might be true, and something that isn’t true at all.
Boston Phoenix |
Camille Dodero |
10-05-2006 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
A Hunger for Truthnew
Peter Behrens' personalized novel sheds new light on the Irish famine and provokes some nasty comparisons to Hurricane Katrina.
Boston Phoenix |
Mike Miliard |
09-21-2006 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Peter Behrens, The Law of Dreams
From the Ashesnew
With one of the better novels to come out of 9/11, Jay McInerney grows up.
Boston Phoenix |
Mike Miliard |
02-24-2006 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Jay McInerney, The Good Life
Dirty Politicsnew
For two years as Wonkette, Ana Marie Cox was best known for gleeful daily references to "ass-fucking" and political tawdriness in the blogosphere, but now she’s moving on to different endeavors.
Boston Phoenix |
Deirdre Fulton |
01-12-2006 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Dog Days, Ana Marie Cox
Tales of a Quitternew
A book-long narrative rather than the usual series of semi-epiphanic moments, The Quitter is the most substantive and rewarding look yet at the strangely compelling life of the Lake Erie everyman.
Boston Phoenix |
Mike Miliard |
09-30-2005 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
Punk Rock Prosenew
Punk rock, mental breakdowns, bucketloads of beer -- Jimmy Reject has figured out that it's one thing being a punk rocker, and it's another being on the outside of the world looking in.
Boston Phoenix |
Mike Miliard |
08-25-2005 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
The Spook Of Providence: H.P. Lovecraft's Wretched Excessnew
The addition of Howard Phillips Lovecraft (1890-1937) to the Library of America’s prestigious list of honored authors begs the question whether he really is that good or whether the L of A is just running out of Great American Writers.
Boston Phoenix |
Richard C. Walls |
04-22-2005 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
Art Demon: An interview with Camille Paglianew
Camille Paglia talks (and talks and talks) about her new book of poetry commentary — and academic ‘ass-lickers’ and ‘liberal media elites’ had better respond intelligently for a change.
Boston Phoenix |
Tamara Wieder |
04-07-2005 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
Jonathan Safran Foer Discusses Extremely Loud and Incredibly Closenew
Jonathan Safran Foer talks about his new novel Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close, in which he makes September 11th the canvas for his portrait of the dimensions of tragedy.
Boston Phoenix |
Nina MacLaughlin |
03-24-2005 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
The Man Who Rolled the Beatles' First Jointnew
Al Aronowitz says the '60s wouldn't have been the same without him. Now, as he types away alone in his cluttered New Jersey apartment, the "Blacklisted Journalist" looks back.
Boston Phoenix |
Mike Miliard |
12-03-2004 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
Girls, Interruptednew
In Growing Up Fast, documentarian Joanna Lipper offered a piercing look at teen motherhood. Now her book lets six young mothers tell their stories in their own words.
Boston Phoenix |
Camille Dodero |
12-01-2004 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
The Ebb and Flow of American Beer Culturenew
In a quixotic journey to find “The Perfect Beer Joint,” the novelist and long-time Wall Street Journal writer Ken Wells embarked on a perambulating journey down the length of the Mississippi River to see what he could see and sip what he could sip. Travels with Barley, the fizzy and flavorful travelogue that resulted, is appropriately intoxicating.
Boston Phoenix |
Mike Miliard |
11-22-2004 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
Hard Timesnew
Seth Mnookin reflects on his journey from junkie to Newsweek media expert to profiler of the scandals at the New York Times.
Boston Phoenix |
Tamara Wieder |
11-16-2004 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Hard News, Seth Mnookin
Howard Zinn Targets the Next Generationnew
The historian's new book combats the "submersion of nonwhite people" in the writing of history.
Boston Phoenix |
Deirdre Fulton |
10-22-2004 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
