AltWeeklies Wire
Tattoos, Tequila and Tediumnew
Mike Sager is saving grace on Vince Neil bio.
Boise Weekly |
Amy Atkins |
12-15-2010 |
Nonfiction
If Only Bush Had Taken Bong Hits with Harold and Kumarnew
The most shocking revelation in Decision Points by George W. Bush is not one that you've read about already.
Charleston City Paper |
Chris Haire |
11-17-2010 |
Nonfiction
Tags: George W. Bush, Decision Points
Keith Richards's Lifenew
The Rolling Stone spills all — eloquently.
Boston Phoenix |
Joyce Millman |
11-15-2010 |
Nonfiction
Matterhorn: A Novel of the Vietnam War is a Familiar Tour of Dutynew
For Karl Marlantes, a highly decorated Vietnam veteran, the publication of his book may very well exorcise his Vietnam demons. It may also do the same for his comrades in arms.
INDY Week |
Adam Sobsey |
11-10-2010 |
Nonfiction
Tags: Vietnam War, Karl Marlantes
New Yorker Writer Ian Frazier's Travels in Siberianew
At nearly 500 pages long, Frazier's Siberia rambles through ancient history and contemporary anecdote, is full of both affection and frustration, and has a deliberately inconclusive ending. It seems appropriate.
INDY Week |
Adam Sobsey |
11-05-2010 |
Nonfiction
Tags: Ian Frazier
Sweet, Sweet Saccharinnew
Empty Pleasures views 20th-century America through the progress of its sweeteners.
INDY Week |
Adam Sobsey |
10-27-2010 |
Nonfiction
Tags: Empty Pleasures
Local Poet Jeffery Beam's Latest Volume, Gospel Earthnew
Everything you are not noticing in the natural world has been captured in this book.
INDY Week |
Jaimee Hills |
10-25-2010 |
Nonfiction
Tags: Gospel Earth
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
The Fall of American Talibannew
Markos Moulitsas fails to woo liberals with his latest screed.
East Bay Express |
Rachel Swan |
09-29-2010 |
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
Teenage wastelandnew
Long a curious footnote of American punk, Detroit hardcore (think Negative Approach, Necros) finally gets its due, thanks to two handsome books showing the Detroit hardcore scene for what it was: fast, angry and, finally, self-imploding.
Metro Times |
Michael Jackman |
07-28-2010 |
Nonfiction
Sebastian Junger's Gripping Chronicle of Afghanistannew
Sebastian Junger's meditations on fear, killing and love—and on the intoxicating allure of combat for one group of young men—will no doubt earn WAR a well-deserved spot among the great works of combat journalism.
INDY Week |
Bronwen Dickey |
06-10-2010 |
Nonfiction
Women Writers 'Between the Sheets'new
In her exploration of the private lives of nine 20th-century female writers, Lesley McDowell sets out to prove "that none of the women artists mentioned here were victims at all, but that they chose their own fates knowingly and without the taint of victimization."
Austin Chronicle |
Audra Schroeder |
05-11-2010 |
Nonfiction
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
