AltWeeklies Wire
What's Eating Zachary German? Plus, the Book People Will Use to Define Younew
Zachary German is sitting at a table in the back of Coffee Time. The cafe is on the corner of Bleecker Street and Bowery. Zachary has short brown hair and is wearing oversized glasses and a tie underneath a sweater. He is drinking an iced soy latte. It’s 5 o’clock.
New York Press |
Sheila McClear |
02-18-2010 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
Hunter S. Thompson's Widow Speaks About Her Husband and Her Booknew
Anita Thompson was taking a semester off from college when she met Hunter through a mutual friend in 1999. Soon after, she began organizing the unpublished manuscripts and photographs from his archive, which consisted of about 1,000 boxes in their basement.
New York Press |
Gerry Visco |
09-10-2009 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
Nick Cave's Demons Come Out to Play in 'Bunny Munro'new
While Cave is better known for his music than his prose, it turns out that he's a surprisingly gifted, if slightly deranged, author.
New York Press |
Jessica Loudis |
09-03-2009 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
A Private Journey: Mara Altman's Unusual Memoirnew
At 26, Altman had never had an orgasm, so she embarked on a yearlong search for satisfaction. Her personality improbably shape shifts through the various chest-thumpingly macho stereotypes of male adventure fiction.
New York Press |
Mishka Shubaly |
04-16-2009 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
Memoirist Robert Goolrick Tackles the Novelnew
Robert Goolrick, a former advertising exec turned writer, explores the difficulties of "simple" married life and the dark family landscape within which it exists in his new novel. He talks here about writing fiction, the appeal of Wisconsin and where his writing career is headed.
New York Press |
Stephanie Lee |
03-19-2009 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
Sarah Vowell Pops a Ladyboner for Puritans in Her New Booknew
In The Wordy Shipmates, she makes the case that the Puritans were not a congregation of book burning, sexually uptight, overly moral goody-goodies. Working out some schoolgirl crush on folks with buckled shoes, she gushes over the Puritans as a literary bunch who relentlessly penned letters, sermons, books, even kept day-to-to diaries.
New York Press |
Brian Pennington |
10-09-2008 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
Ben Nugent Reveals the Truth: Nerds Defy Definitionnew
American Nerd plays out as part vindication, part apology, and it relates his personal experiences to a range of social, political and historical images and ideas.
New York Press |
Jerry Portwood |
05-15-2008 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
'Spent': The Naked Truthnew
Joe Matt's spent after all that whacking off.
New York Press |
Brian Heater |
07-09-2007 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
That's Farkin Right!new
Fark.com founder Drew Curtis: "Media is a tapeworm crawling up its own asshole."
New York Press |
Ken Mondschein |
06-07-2007 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
Capturing a Vanishing Citynew
Photojournalists James and Karla Murray document the walls and buildings of NYC before they disappear.
New York Press |
Billy Jam |
01-05-2007 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
George Saunders, Americannew
Saunders gets transposed into his own cracked reality.
New York Press |
Scott Indrisek |
04-27-2006 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
The Accidental Pop Touristnew
In his latest book, Toure spins new tales of bold-faced names and glitterati exploits.
New York Press |
Andre LeRoy Davis |
04-20-2006 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Never Drank the Kool-Aid, Toure
World Trade Center Replacement Was No Grassroots Effortnew
Philip Nobel's book reveals the degree to which big money interests and Gov. George Pataki manipulated the process of selecting a design project for Ground Zero.
New York Press |
Dan Neel |
01-27-2005 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Port Authority, a star-crossed celebrity architect, Daniel Libeskind, Philip Nobel, Ronald Lauder, Sixteen Acres: Architecture and the Outrageous Struggle for the Future of Ground Zero, World Trade Center: the New York State Commission of Privatization and the New York State Research Council on Privatization investigative journalist Justin Berzon and National Review Online contributing editor Deroy Murdock
Author of The Outsiders Leaves the Young Adult Sectionnew
S.E. Hinton's Hawkes Harbor marks her first voyage into the fantastic. The novel about street-tough orphan Jamie Sommers features pirates, jewel smugglers and one extended encounter with a vampire.
New York Press |
Brian Heater |
09-24-2004 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
The Original Playboy Star: An Interview With Joe Namath's Biographernew
Biographer Mark Kriegel tells how he pursued the story of Joe Namath, the football star who was both old-school tough guy and new-fangled hustler. In late middle age, Namath found himself in pain and alone with a bottle.
New York Press |
C.J. Sullivan |
09-17-2004 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
