AltWeeklies Wire
Long May You Runnew
The Last Good War: The Faces and Voices of World War II reminds us that we need to hear the stories of veterans while they’re still among us.
Easy Reader |
Bondo Wyszpolski |
01-03-2011 |
Nonfiction
Tattoos, Tequila and Tediumnew
Mike Sager is saving grace on Vince Neil bio.
Boise Weekly |
Amy Atkins |
12-15-2010 |
Nonfiction
Walking in Black Women's Footstepsnew
Two important new histories of the Civil Rights movement.
INDY Week |
Adam Sobsey |
10-25-2010 |
Nonfiction
Archiving Anarchy in the U.K.new
Between 1988 and 1990, Jon Savage spoke extensively to the Sex Pistols, the late Malcolm McLaren, the late Joe Strummer, Chrissie Hynde, Siouxsie Sioux, and many others in the British punk scene. The England's Dreaming Tapes features full interviews with those who were there.
Charleston City Paper |
T. Ballard Lesemann |
10-07-2010 |
Nonfiction
War Is Still Hellnew
Sebastian Junger’s latest journalist’s-eye-view of combat, War, is gritty and honest.
Inland Empire Weekly |
Nancy Powell |
08-06-2010 |
Nonfiction
Tags: Sebastian Junger
Infinite Jester: Rediscovering a Road Trip With David Foster Wallacenew
In 1996, David Lipsky spent time alongside David Foster Wallace, then a brilliant young writer on a reluctant book tour for Infinite Jest. Now, their hours of recorded conversation -- interviews conducted in cars, planes, hotel rooms and Wallace's home -- are rendered vividly and mostly verbatim in Lipsky's new book.
Pittsburgh City Paper |
Aaron Jentzen |
05-03-2010 |
Nonfiction
Undercover in 'Christian Country,' Gina Welch Pretended to Be an Evangelicalnew
While preparing for her baptism at Jerry Falwell's Thomas Road Baptist Church, Gina Welch was handed a checklist: She'd need a towel and a change of underwear.
East Bay Express |
Anneli Rufus |
03-17-2010 |
Nonfiction
The Oral History of Toronto’s Punk Rock Scene is Retold in 'Treat Me Like Dirt'new
Liz Worth’s oral history Treat Me Like Dirt proves to be long overdue, finally exposing Toronto’s influential but often forgotten punk rock scene between 1974 and 1981.
Montreal Mirror |
Johnson Cummins |
02-26-2010 |
Nonfiction
Tags: Liz Worth, Treat Me Like Dirt
Books Explore the Games Behind the Olympic Gamesnew
This penetrating analysis by Helen Jefferson Lenskyj, a Toronto sociologist and activist, remains a classic for how thoroughly it exposes the secrecy, elitism, hypocrisy, corruption, and lack of accountability of what she calls the “Olympic industry”.
The Georgia Straight |
Charlie Smith |
02-16-2010 |
Nonfiction
‘The Poisoner’s Handbook’: Tracking Murder Through Forensic Sciencenew
The storytelling skills of Deborah Blum, a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, show no diminishment in The Poisoner’s Handbook: Murder and the Birth of Forensic Medicine in Jazz Age New York (Penguin Press).
Shepherd Express |
Roger K. Miller |
02-12-2010 |
Nonfiction
Writer Captures New Dimensions of Old West Legends Pat Garrett and Billy the Kidnew
Growing up in a small Missouri town in "the heart of Jesse James country," Mark Lee Gardner and his friends would chase each other through the schoolyard pantomiming holdups, manhunts and violent showdowns. "We all wanted to be Jesse James," he muses.
Colorado Springs Independent |
Jill Thomas |
02-09-2010 |
Nonfiction
Columnist’s Book Offers an Overview of the Progress Made by Womennew
Gail Collins of The New York Times has written a book that I consider a must-read: When Everything Changed: The Amazing Journey of American Women From 1960 to the Present. Run, do not walk, to your local bookstore and get your copy.
Pasadena Weekly |
Ellen Snortland |
02-08-2010 |
Nonfiction
'Global Warring': The Geopolitics of Climate Changenew
The Earth is warming. Fact. Weather patterns are changing. Undeniable. We’re all in a heap of trouble. Uh-huh. And we’re all doing our best to deal with it. Nope. According to Montrealer Cleo Paskal, the world governments are snoozing while the world boils.
NOW Magazine |
Patrick Lejtenyi |
01-29-2010 |
Nonfiction
Snake On a Train: Getting to Know Patricia Highsmithnew
It's no small achievement that playwright-biographer Joan Schenkar is able to find perverse charm and consistent fascination in the messy, globetrotting life of Patricia Highsmith. At almost 700 pages, Schenkar's The Talented Miss Highsmith: The Secret Life and Serious Art of Patricia Highsmith is a horse pill of a book.
Fort Worth Weekly |
Jimmy Fowler |
01-25-2010 |
Nonfiction
TCU Professor's Memoir: Happy, Poetic, But Slightnew
Titled after his college nickname, Alex Lemon's Happy is another in a slew of memoirs in the vein of Boy Meets Obstacle, Boy Overcomes Obstacle, Boy Finds Redemption. Typically in such books, a self-destructive young man is thrown into exigent circumstances that force him to confront the selfish asshole in the mirror.
Fort Worth Weekly |
Anthony Mariani |
01-25-2010 |
Nonfiction
Tags: Alex Lemon, Happy
