AltWeeklies Wire
'Life' Photographer Bill Eppridge Remembers the Bobby Kennedy Campaignnew
"My job was to see, not to hear," writes Eppridge in his recently released coffee-table book A Time It Was: Bobby Kennedy in the Sixties, a crisp, informative collection of magnificent color and black-and-white photographs of perhaps one of the most exciting presidential campaigns in American history, up to this most recent season.
Baltimore City Paper |
Blaine Taylor |
07-29-2008 |
Nonfiction
Lily Koppel's Quest to Return a Diarynew
While reading the diary, Koppel discovered a vivacious, curious young woman growing up in New York during the tail end of the 1920s who was constantly searching for an identity and questioning her thoughts and emotions.
Baltimore City Paper |
Josh Marx |
07-29-2008 |
Nonfiction
Michael Chabon Examines the Marginsnew
Chabon chose the dynamic, in-between spaces as the subject of his first nonfiction essay collection, Maps and Legends.
Baltimore City Paper |
Heather Harris |
07-29-2008 |
Nonfiction
'Somebody Scream!' Revisits the Stakes of Early Rapnew
In Reeves' reckoning, rap began to fill the void left by a shrinking black-power movement in the late 1970s and early ’80s.
Baltimore City Paper |
Raymond Cummings |
07-29-2008 |
Nonfiction
Police Sociologist and Criminal Justice Prof Writes About His Experience as a Baltimore Copnew
As a critic of the justice system, Peter Moskos decided to engage this dysfunction from a very local level, from the perspective of an officer on the street. As an officer, he became a cog in the machine, patrolling Broadway, from Orleans Street to North Avenue, on the night beat.
Baltimore City Paper |
John Barry |
07-29-2008 |
Nonfiction
Scott Douglas' Memoir is a Love Story to Public Librariansnew
His librarian vignettes are entertaining, scenes of crazy patrons and even crazier co-workers. But while everyone can relate to stories about neighborhood characters and Office Space-esque bureaucracy, Douglas' humor can take them only so far.
Baltimore City Paper |
Tina Plottel |
07-08-2008 |
Nonfiction
Andrew Blechman Checks in on What's Really Going Down in Retirement Communitiesnew
Blechman goes where few under the age of 50 have dared go when he probes at the smelly underbellies of America's age-restricted retirement communities.
Baltimore City Paper |
Adrienne Martini |
07-08-2008 |
Nonfiction
'The James Brown Reader' Shares a Warts-and-all View of the Godfather of Soulnew
Co-editors Nelson George and Alan Leeds both contribute fine overtures to the volume, but it's hard not to wish they'd included a note about their compiling methodology, though it doesn't take long to figure out the pair elected to leave in original typos, misspellings, falsities, and myths.
Baltimore City Paper |
Michaelangelo Matos |
06-24-2008 |
Nonfiction
Mark Harris Examines New Hollywoodnew
Think of it as the prequel -- every bit as good -- to Peter Biskind's classic New Hollywood history, Easy Riders, Raging Bulls.
Baltimore City Paper |
Michaelangelo Matos |
04-01-2008 |
Nonfiction
Jackie Ormes Draws in a Man's Worldnew
A petite stunner with a 1,000-watt smile, Ormes enjoyed great success despite the twin hurdles of race and gender.
Baltimore City Paper |
Emily Flake |
04-01-2008 |
Nonfiction
The Phenotyping Pointnew
Some thoughts on John Edgar Wideman, Frantz Fanon, and race in America.
Baltimore City Paper |
Michael Corbin |
03-18-2008 |
Nonfiction
Invasion of The Body Watchersnew
Aine Collier's The Humble Little Condom: A History and Jamye Waxman's Getting Off: A Woman's Guide to Masturbation examine the historical prohibitions of so-called sex without procreation.
Baltimore City Paper |
Heather Harris |
02-12-2008 |
Nonfiction
Phil Ramone on Music Productionnew
Whether you have dabbled in music production or have trouble figuring out how to work a five-disc changer stereo system, you will find Making Records down-right digestible.
Baltimore City Paper |
Ed Schrader |
02-05-2008 |
Nonfiction
O Twin, Where Art Thou?new
In seeking out her long-lost brother, Mona, the central character of twin time: or, how death befell me, seeks to understand the reasoning behind her mother's decision to abandon her and her father.
Baltimore City Paper |
Zak M. Salih |
01-29-2008 |
Nonfiction
Re-Examining the Relationship Between Gertrude Stein & Alice B. Toklasnew
Two Lives continually calls attention to the pitfalls and pratfalls of literary biography; in this regard, whatever the veracity of the episodes uncovered, Malcolm's work can be considered an honest enterprise.
Baltimore City Paper |
Zak M. Salih |
12-11-2007 |
Nonfiction
