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Sonic Warfare: Sound, Affect, and the Ecology of Fear
Author Steve Goodman could be the Lon Chaney of underground electronic music.
Orlando Weekly |
Matt Gorney |
07-06-2011 |
Nonfiction
Electric Eden: Unearthing Britain's Visionary Music
Scratch the surface of all that faeries-and-druids stuff that tinges '70s folk-rock, and you'll find some deeply twisted, "Wicker Man"-type weirdness.
Orlando Weekly |
Jessica Bryce Young |
07-06-2011 |
Nonfiction
Dirty South Examines Impact of Southern Rapnew

In scores of interviews with key players — some requiring classic shoe-leather man-hunting — Westhoff pins the genre’s roots to 2 Live Crew.
San Antonio Current |
Adam Coronado |
06-17-2011 |
Nonfiction
The Rise of Phoenixnew

'Desert Visions' may be the definitive history of Arizona's capital city.
Tucson Weekly |
Tim Hull |
05-04-2011 |
Nonfiction
Riparian Revival?new

Ken Lamberton shows the oft-maligned Santa Cruz River some much-deserved love.
Tucson Weekly |
Paul Wine |
04-25-2011 |
Nonfiction
Tags: Ken Lamberton, Santa Cruz River
Arcadia's Latest Book Offers an Illustrated Look at the Start of the Civil Warnew

One of the more colorful and historically specific releases of their Images of America series, Arcadia Publishing's latest Charleston-based book The First Shot is an impressive, military-themed history lesson and collection of images.
Charleston City Paper |
T. Ballard Lesemann |
04-12-2011 |
Nonfiction
It Happened on the Way to Warnew

Rye Barcott's book about his work with the Kibera slum in Kenya.
INDY Week |
Adam Sobsey |
03-29-2011 |
Nonfiction
In-Betweennew

Jim Kristofic's biographical essays detail his life as a white kid in the Navajo Nation.
Tucson Weekly |
Tim Hull |
03-03-2011 |
Nonfiction
Tags: Jim Kristofic, Navajos Wear Nikes
Tulia Besiegednew

'Taking our the Trash in Tulia, Texas'
San Antonio Current |
Greg Harman |
02-24-2011 |
Nonfiction
Interview With Isabel Wilkerson, Author of The Warmth of Other Sunsnew

From 1915-1970, more than 6 million African-Americans fled the cruel caste system of the South, making the difficult choice to leave the land they knew for a land they had never seen.
INDY Week |
Lisa Sorg |
02-18-2011 |
Nonfiction
Haunted Helenanew

Story of a Texas ghost town. With ghosts.
San Antonio Current |
Roberto Ontiveros |
01-14-2011 |
Nonfiction
Tags: Barry Harrin, Helena Texas
The Three-Headed Salingernew

Review of J.D. Salinger: A Life.
San Antonio Current |
Raymond Cummings |
01-14-2011 |
Nonfiction
Heather Havrilesky Discusses New Memoir and Working for Rupert Murdochnew

Havrilesky defends against mass-produced media meteors by hurling her own fine-tuned bits of sarcasm and "grumpy" insights into the mix, and there's no denying she's been successful.
INDY Week |
Lindsay Parker |
01-06-2011 |
Nonfiction
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
Leslie Dunton-Downer Discusses The Rapidly Evolving Languagenew

If The English Is Coming! by Leslie Dunton-Downer sounds like a Palinism, maybe that's the point. Language -- especially English -- is malleable, and what initially sounds wrong can also make its own kind of sense and even end up as the norm.
INDY Week |
David Klein |
12-30-2010 |
Nonfiction
Tags: The English Is Coming!