AltWeeklies Wire
Eugene Jarecki Has the 'Big Picture' and a New Book on Warnew
Jareki's print debut supplements his 2006 film, Why We Fight, while the cafe he co-founded in Vermont expresses his "desire to support social betterment."
Seven Days |
Mike Ives |
12-29-2008 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
How Michael Wolff Bagged Rupert Murdochnew
How did a controversial media reporter get total access to the most famous newspaper man in the world? He just asked.
Boston Phoenix |
Daniel McCarthy |
12-18-2008 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
Poet Grace Cavalieri Projects Herself Into Her Latest Famous Womannew
In her latest book of poems, Anna Nicole, the poems are delivered from the imagined perspective of Anna Nicole Smith, the tabloid celebrity known for her Playboy spreads, her marriage to a millionaire 63 years her senior, and for her own TV reality show. So it's appropriate that the book's cover is a deliberately garish painting that gives the pin-up model magenta hair and green eyes.
Baltimore City Paper |
Geoffrey Himes |
12-09-2008 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
Annie Leibovitz Has Learned to See the Forest for the Treesnew
Annie Leibovitz at Work takes a different route than its shiny coffee-table counterparts, digging deep and dropping knowledge.
Philadelphia City Paper |
Natalie Hope McDonald |
12-09-2008 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
'In Search of Bill Clinton' Revisits the Monica Affairnew
Was Bill Clinton's affair with Monica Lewinsky merely the weakness of an inveterate horndog -- or something else? Psychologist John D. Gartner explains.
Baltimore City Paper |
Violet Glaze |
12-02-2008 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
Tim Reid is Still Making Race Relations Funnynew
Partnered with Tom Dreesen, now a veteran standup comic and humanitarian, Reid was half of what had to be America's first interracial comedy team, Tim & Tom. And now, somewhat reluctantly, he's having the last laugh with Dreesen, compiling the memories of that era into a fascinating new book, Tim & Tom: An American Comedy in Black and White.
Metro Times |
Jim McFarlin |
11-25-2008 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
Lennard Davis Argues that Obsession is Largely in the Eye of the Beholdernew
Obsession: A History is the UIC professor's study of the rise and bifurcated path of obsessive behavior as both an illness and an ideal in the modern world.
Chicago Reader |
Deanna Isaacs |
11-24-2008 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
Laurell K. Hamilton, the Mistress of Horrornew
Nobody writes vampire novels the way the St. Louis author does -- and yes, there's lots of sex.
Riverfront Times |
Aimee Levitt |
11-21-2008 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
National Security Agency Expert James Bamford Talks Secrets and Liesnew
The Shadow Factory: The Ultra-Secret NSA from 9/11 to the Eavesdropping on America presents an account of the drastic and ominous shift in the agency's mission and tactics over the past seven years.
Baltimore City Paper |
Lee Gardner |
11-14-2008 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
Howard Zinn Ponders Obama's Positions on Peace and Imperialismnew
The noted historian and activist talks about the war, the end of the Bush era and the future of the American empire.
Montreal Mirror |
Matt Jones |
11-14-2008 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
'The Scramble for Africa' Argues that Western Activists Have Darfur All Wrongnew
Steven Fake and Kevin Funk agree: When it comes to Darfur, even people who share their leftist politics mostly don't get it.
Pittsburgh City Paper |
Bill O'Driscoll |
11-11-2008 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
Chunklet's Henry Owings Lays Down the Rules in 'The Rock Bible'new
Mere mortals tremble at Owing's caustic humored sensibilities toward pop and culture. So when he came up with a "rock bible" idea for issue 20 and it exploded into a 250-page Word file in two weeks with more than 300 ideas from his contributors and friends, a book was in order.
Philadelphia City Paper |
A.D. Amorosi |
11-11-2008 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
Natalie McLennan Discusses Her Life as a High-Priced Hookernew
The former escort to the stars tells all about doing johns, doing drugs and doing time in her book The Price: My Rise and Fall as Natalia.
Montreal Mirror |
Chris Barry |
11-07-2008 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
Savannah Knoop: Living Without LeRoynew
With her new memoir, the literary co-hoaxer steps out of JT LeRoy's shadow. But can she step out of Laura Albert's?
SF Weekly |
Jonathan Kiefer |
11-05-2008 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
Loren Estleman: The Guy Who Isn't Elmore Leonardnew
A glimpse into the life of Michigan's other -- and quite prolific -- crime writer. This year alone, the 56-year-old Estleman published one book of photography, three novels and slews of short fiction.
Metro Times |
Odell Waller |
11-04-2008 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
