AltWeeklies Wire
The Doctor Gets Brandednew
Perhaps there are those who log on daily to ESPN.com and dig up columns by former print journalism mavens like Hunter S. Thompson. More likely, ESPN could repackage Ernest Hemingway for a live web chat and few wanderers among the cluttered sports media landscape would take notice.
New York Press |
Spike Vrusho |
09-08-2004 |
Nonfiction
All Good Things Come to an Endnew
A Howard Dean campaign worker turns the story of the little engine that couldn't quite scale the final hill into a discussion of how the Dean team transformed the way America plays politics.
Illinois Times |
Corrine Frisch |
09-02-2004 |
Nonfiction
Texas's Liberal Icons Offer Advice for Political Seasonnew
Books by two of the state's most prominent liberal writers come at a time when the state's Democrats are trying to reorganize and rebuild, clearing out the weeds and wreckage of a decade of Republican dominance. Reviewed along with Hightower's book is Molly Ivins' Who Let the Dogs In? Incredible Political Animals I Have Known.
San Antonio Current |
Sean-Paul Kelley |
08-31-2004 |
Nonfiction
True Korthnew
Heimo Korth is the subject of author James Campbell’s book debut, a Krakauer-meets-McPhee-style portrait of family life in the bush -- a sort of Daniel Boone for the modern reader.
Missoula Independent |
Azita Osanloo |
08-26-2004 |
Nonfiction
911 Omissions: Who Needs Henry Kissinger, After All?new
The only way to explain the best-seller status of this dry, stiff and cynical book is to understand the 9/11 disaster as a national trauma so intense that the co-dependent American family is still reaching for anything that will assure it.
New York Press |
Sander Hicks |
08-26-2004 |
Nonfiction
Liberal Left Hooknew
Elder Democratic statesman George McGovern comes out swinging, quietly, in defense of American liberalism.
Missoula Independent |
Nicole Panter |
08-20-2004 |
Nonfiction
This Really is Burning Man
Given that Burning Man is a festival that can hardly be documented, this book does a great job of documenting it.
Monday Magazine |
John Threlfall |
08-12-2004 |
Nonfiction
Rally 'Round the Books, Boysnew
George W. Bush's administration has been disastrous for forests, as evidenced by a glance at bookstore shelves. Dead trees take the form of scathing and scathingly funny critiques: It's enough to concern the most passive "arbolist."
Illinois Times |
Corrine Frisch |
08-12-2004 |
Nonfiction
Earth Daze: Prose for the Planetnew
Naked offers a hopeful antidote to boring travel writing: a wide assortment of nonfiction, memoirs, short stories, essays and excerpted correspondence in which the environment is not just a setting but a character with dialogue.
L.A. Weekly |
Joshuah Bearman |
08-11-2004 |
Nonfiction
Compendium Lists Sexy Queer Terms and Their Origins
A.D. Peterkin delves into language that would make Roget blush in public . . . but would also make his “membrum virile” stand at attention in private.
Monday Magazine |
Bill Stuart |
08-07-2004 |
Nonfiction
Journalist Recalls Months She Taught Dance in Cubanew
In "Dancing with Cuba," noted Latin American journalist Alma Guillermoprieto gives us the rhetoric-free story of her formative experiences in revolutionary Cuba.
Sacramento News & Review |
Melinda Welsh |
08-07-2004 |
Nonfiction
Nashville Writer Celebrates Inspiration of Baseballnew
"The Game: One Man, Nine Innings, A Love Affair With Baseball," a meditative book about the life-lessons of baseball, imparts a Zen-like peace similar to that offered by an evening in the ballpark.
Nashville Scene |
Paul V. Griffith |
08-07-2004 |
Nonfiction
Almond Takes His Candy Memories on the Roadnew
Steve Almond knows a thing or two about obsession. Fortunately for us, he writes about it so well that we’re invited to join him, and, like any slippery slope, we’re soon riding shotgun beside him on the premium chocolate highway.
Sacramento News & Review |
Kel Munger |
08-07-2004 |
Nonfiction
Picture Book Reveals How the Hairbrush Turns
One flip-through of this cheesy coffee-table book will leave you speechless, because the smiling people in these photographs actually allowed these hairstyles to happen to them.
Monday Magazine |
Adrienne Mercer |
08-07-2004 |
Nonfiction
Village Voice Writer Chronicles Woman's Life after Prisonnew
Released after 16 years in prison, Elaine Bartlett finds that the family she longed to rejoin has many troubles. Gonnerman describes the ex-convict's plight in writing that is plain and sometimes a bit dull, but this book has some remarkable sections and memorable moments.
Baltimore City Paper |
Scott Carlson |
08-07-2004 |
Nonfiction
