AltWeeklies Wire
101, If You Count the Byline
Biased author Bernard Goldberg's 100 People Who Are Ruining America offers a helpful list of who to hate
Columbus Alive |
J. Caleb Mozzocco |
07-28-2005 |
Nonfiction
A Brick of Crumb: A Handbook Collects the Cartoonistnew
The R. Crumb Handbook is a peculiar hybrid: part sampler of Crumb’s work, part autobiography, part festschrift, part documentation of his favorite things, part collection of photographs of the artist looking like one of his own caricatures.
Boston Phoenix |
Douglas Wolk |
07-22-2005 |
Nonfiction
It's Plain to See in the Illusionist's Transparent Boxnew
Is Adair's final revelation the real transcendent deal or merely a philosophical sleight of hand? Such a cynic you are! It's all there plain to see in the illusionist's transparent box.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Thomas Bell |
07-22-2005 |
Nonfiction
Shots: An American Photographer's Journal 1967-1972new
In a book filled with striking and provocative photos, perhaps the most striking and provocative is a shot of demonstrators behind a barricade during Nixon's 1969 inauguration.
Orlando Weekly |
Jason Ferguson |
07-15-2005 |
Nonfiction
This Ain't No Disco: New Wave Album Coversnew
Lacking focus, organization and in some cases clean artwork, this book comes off as a pet project undertaken by a New Wave nerd who badly wants to legitimize her 20-year-old record collection by turning the album covers into objets d'art.
Orlando Weekly |
Jason Ferguson |
07-15-2005 |
Nonfiction
The Devil's Work Is Good Worknew
Imagine working three days a week. Now imagine only working three of those weeks a month for, say, nine months a year. In Tom Hodgekinson's new book How to Be Idle, he says that's the way it should be.
Orlando Weekly |
Jason Ferguson |
07-14-2005 |
Nonfiction
Tags: How to be Idle, Tom Hodgekinson
In It for the Mysterynew
Author Peter Stark kayaked the 750 kilometer Lugenda River -- largely unexplored and populated with crocodiles and hippos -- and recounts his adventure, and the history of the ones before his in his new book.
Missoula Independent |
Azita Osanloo |
07-14-2005 |
Nonfiction
Unnatural Historynew
A history buff tracks down stories of a real-life horse whisperer, the world's very first car accident and a public whipping.
Cleveland Scene |
Michael Gallucci |
07-12-2005 |
Nonfiction
Passionate Aristocrat: Robert Lowell's Unvarnished Shop Talknew
This is unrevised Lowell, spiky, provocative, with signature strings of adjectives that must have delighted his correspondents.
Boston Phoenix |
William Corbett |
07-08-2005 |
Nonfiction
Watch Your Mouthnew
An Australian linguist flaunts her foul language as a badge of courage while charging that her academic peers "have allowed themselves to be affected by the taboo to the point that its exploration has been underresearched."
The Village Voice |
Joy Press |
07-05-2005 |
Nonfiction
Wander Womannew
An apprentice to the world at large, Rebecca Solnit has made a life's work out of scavenging for connections. Her latest collection of essays sweeps through myriad varieties of loss, from objects to memories to love.
The Village Voice |
Joy Press |
07-05-2005 |
Nonfiction
Gay-Baiting Senator Clintonnew
This hot new book is full of innuendo that Hillary Clinton is a lesbian. Spreading such rumors is a typical ploy used to keep women in power from achieving higher leadership positions.
The Village Voice |
Kristen Lombardi |
07-01-2005 |
Nonfiction
Deep Impact
Cartoonist Ward Sutton takes and passes the book-collection test.
Columbus Alive |
J. Caleb Mozzocco |
06-30-2005 |
Nonfiction
The Essential Pleasures of Natural Foodsnew
Gina Mallet takes a few of the most significant foods in the Western Hemisphere and gives you a sobering account of how they've changed for the worse in the age of industrialization and paranoia.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Bill Addison |
06-30-2005 |
Nonfiction
Literary Crunknew
Author Tamara Palmer digs deep into the formerly indie world of crunk country to explain the Dirty South's rap explosion.
Miami New Times |
Eric K. Arnold |
06-27-2005 |
Nonfiction
