AltWeeklies Wire
'Milk Teeth' Couldn't Be More Different Than 'Marley and Me'new
By title alone, Milk Teeth: A Memoir of a Woman and Her Dog would seem to fall into the same cutesy genre as John Grogan's bestselling 2005 memoir. Though it does feature a deviantly behaved Lab and a plethora of lessons on life and love, Robbie Pfeufer Kahn's meditative, soul-searching book couldn’t be more different.
Seven Days |
Amy Lilly |
06-19-2009 |
Nonfiction
A New Book on Vermont Country Stores Reveals Why They're Here for the Long Haulnew
If you go way back to the foggy beginnings of an average Vermont town, the building blocks of the community stack up something like this: First came the church, and then the town hall, the one-room schoolhouse, the tavern, the harness shop, the blacksmith, the itinerant traders and, last but not least, the general store.
Seven Days |
Kirk Kardashian |
08-08-2008 |
Nonfiction
Charles Lindbergh's Daughter Reflects on Turning 60 in Her New Memoirnew
In Reeve Lindbergh's new book Forward From Here, the youngest child of famed aviator Charles Lindbergh and author and aviatrix Anne Morrow Lindbergh writes of her life spent in the Northeast Kingdom, the "back to the land" movement that led her there, and the consequences -- both mundane and thrilling -- of turning 60.
Seven Days |
Matt Scanlon |
08-04-2008 |
Nonfiction
James Sturm's Moving Picturesnew
The graphic novelist, like a film director, tells a story through images as much as words. And reading Sturm is a little like watching Alfred Hitchcock direct a Todd Solondz script -- he's got the eye-catching compositions of the auteur and the intense, painful curiosity of the squirm-inducing indie.
Seven Days |
Matt Frassica |
11-16-2007 |
Nonfiction
'Kinfolks': Missing Personsnew
This is a book in which the destination is more interesting than the journey -- Alther struggles to find a way to make the famous-writer's-memoir format mesh with the exceedingly complex web of historical clues she's weaving.
Seven Days |
Margot Harrison |
05-25-2007 |
Nonfiction
Survival of the Nearestnew
Bill McKibben's eloquent moral authority touches a nerve and gets people thinking about the environment.
Seven Days |
Kirk Kardashian |
04-06-2007 |
Nonfiction
Planning for a Post-Carbon Worldnew
Think James Howard Kunstler meets Home Improvement's Tim Allen.
Seven Days |
Mike Ives |
03-07-2007 |
Nonfiction
Ski Reportnew
The former editor of Ski magazine traces the history of the sport, from rope tows and volunteer snow-packers to the chic Stowe slopes.
Seven Days |
Sarah Tuff |
01-25-2007 |
Nonfiction
Divide, Not Conquernew
Galbraith argues forcefully both for Kurdish independence and against Bush administration policies in his new book.
Seven Days |
Gordon Robison |
07-21-2006 |
Nonfiction
Hey, Joenew
Shooting Star reveals that the communist chaser's career arc may have gone another way had Washington not done so much to encourage his nastiness.
Seven Days |
John Freeman |
04-07-2006 |
Nonfiction
Less Is Morenew
Experiments such as this one are really useful -- they help us to understand how unspoken assumptions shape our daily lives, and how much of our time is spent simply wanting.
Seven Days |
Bill McKibben |
03-17-2006 |
Nonfiction
