AltWeeklies Wire
David Menconi recounts Ryan Adams' Raleigh yearsnew
Often funny, sad and poignant at the same time, Losering distills all the tales you might've heard about the booze- and drug-addled nervous wonder of Whiskeytown into 100 or so brisk pages.
INDY Week |
Grayson Currin |
09-19-2012 |
Nonfiction
David Klein delves into the deep catalog of number songs in If 6 Was 9new
Reviewer's Fact #1: I downloaded 13 new songs as a result of reading this book. And, yes, I considered finding a reason to download another just to avoid the unlucky number.
INDY Week |
Chris Vitiello |
03-31-2012 |
Nonfiction
Wojciechowski's The Last Great Game: Duke vs. Kentuckynew
Although the full title occasions three objections all by itself, Gene Wojciechowski's book is nevertheless essential reading for anyone interested in college basketball—and especially, in these environs, for local sports lovers.
INDY Week |
Adam Sobsey |
01-11-2012 |
Nonfiction
Tags: Gene Wojciechowski
Thomas Frank Returns With New Book About the Billionairesnew
"Democrats really failed to speak to the new angry sensibility in the country. And Obama's personality is almost precisely wrong for the populist moment—he really has trouble turning on that emotion."
INDY Week |
Bob Geary |
01-04-2012 |
Nonfiction
Duke Professor Cathy Davidson's Powerful Now You See Itnew
By looking at the historical and philosophical underpinnings of the modern school and workplace, Davidson makes a persuasive case for her book's subtitle: How the Brain Science of Attention Will Transform the Way We Live, Work, and Learn.
INDY Week |
Marc Maximov |
08-25-2011 |
Nonfiction
Tags: Cathy Davidson
Parasite Therapy: Rob Dunn's The Wild Life of Our Bodiesnew
One increasingly tenable theory holds that the disproportionate prevalence of a spectrum of disorders in affluent nations -- from allergies and asthma to diabetes and Crohn's disease -- may be because we miss our worms.
INDY Week |
Marc Maximov |
08-17-2011 |
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
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
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
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!
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
