AltWeeklies Wire
The Life of Charles Schulznew
Michaelis has produced a stunningly insightful and compulsively readable account of the life -- particularly the emotional life -- of the creator of "Peanuts," the famed comic strip about "born loser" Charlie Brown and his young friends.
Shepherd Express |
Roger Miller |
11-19-2007 |
Nonfiction
Beatlemaniacnew
Ian McDonald devised a book that wraps astute social analysis around the fan bait of track-by-track, annotated descriptions of every Beatles recording, including session notes, trivia and critical exegesis.
Shepherd Express |
David Luhrssen |
11-12-2007 |
Nonfiction
Why John Leland Doesn't Matternew
Leland's Why Kerouac Matters doesn't attempt to defend On the Road so much as outline what Kerouac actually meant. And Leland tells most everyone that their readings are, more or less, wrong.
Shepherd Express |
Todd Lazarski |
11-05-2007 |
Nonfiction
Most of 'Chasing the Rising Sun' is Ted Anthony's Existential Dilemmanew
Most books on the history of a single song would be quite slender, but not when the song is The House of the Rising Sun. Anthony writes more about what he discovers about himself than the music.
Shepherd Express |
Martin Jack Rosenblum |
10-22-2007 |
Nonfiction
'Songs Without Words' Captures the Tolstoys' Lifenew
The book, which includes 180 of Countess Sophia Tolstoy's photos and dozens of deeply personal journal entries, tells the story of a famous family living through the tumultuous times of pre-Revolution Russia.
Shepherd Express |
Heather Zydek |
09-24-2007 |
Nonfiction
Car Bomb Universitynew
A history of the big blowup.
Shepherd Express |
Michael Carriere |
07-16-2007 |
Nonfiction
Roll Over Leonard Bernsteinnew
Classical faces the music?
Shepherd Express |
David Luhrssen |
05-21-2007 |
Nonfiction
Nazi Economics: New Insights into the Third Reichnew
It was actually the United States that made Hitler do it -- at least in his twisted mind.
Shepherd Express |
Roger Miller |
05-11-2007 |
Nonfiction
All 'Stacked' Up: Laughing About Breastsnew
Stacked is a wide-ranging exploration of All Things Breast, and it's also that rare combination -- a book that gives readers the opportunity to laugh and learn at the same time.
Shepherd Express |
Amy Waldman |
05-04-2007 |
Nonfiction
Wanderlust and Turmoilnew
The 60s without apology.
Shepherd Express |
Michael Schumacher |
04-27-2007 |
Nonfiction
