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How one dude went from tubby taco guy to shredded metal-head.
Metro Times |
Michael Jackman |
07-13-2012 |
Nonfiction
Tags: Lüc Carl, The Drunk Diet
Philip K. Dick Keeps it (Un)real:new
Hollywood's favorite sci-fi writer didn't think it was all fiction.
Metro Times |
Aaron Mondry |
12-02-2011 |
Nonfiction
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
In 'Shop Class as Soulcraft,' Matthew B. Crawford Says: Get Off Your Assnew
Ex-Bush think-tank dynamo-turned-vintage motorcycle shop owner Crawford calls out the trend in America's displacement of values pertaining to manual trades while questioning the misguided future of would-be knowledge workers (a dirty word as far as Crawford's concerned).
Metro Times |
Travis R. Wright |
10-20-2009 |
Nonfiction
Ole Joe Kennedy's Dirty Hollywoodnew
In Beauchamp's semi-biographic novel of his life, Joe Kennedy is portrayed as having an almost superhuman ability to charm the pants off the ladies and strip the assets from the fellas, greedily seeking and sucking up more money and power under the pretense of "helping" others.
Metro Times |
Christa Buchanan |
08-04-2009 |
Nonfiction
A Journalist Travels Into the Kinky and the Perversenew
In his new book, Daniel Bergner delves into five lives that few would be able to call less than extreme erotically, and in the most extreme of these, criminally disturbing.
Metro Times |
W. Kim Heron |
02-17-2009 |
Nonfiction
Photo Tome Sheds Light on a Dark Scenenew
Photographer Peter Beste has compiled seven years of capturing fake blood and real shit, inverted crosses and mixed messages that reveal Norwegian black metal bands to be the Ramones of death metal: simple and conceptual, an expression of acceptance and rejection, cartoonish and dead serious.
Metro Times |
Tony Ware |
06-10-2008 |
Nonfiction
'Lust': Graphic Sexnew
Seattle cartoonist Ellen Forney does kinky right.
Metro Times |
Sean Bieri |
02-19-2008 |
Nonfiction
'Money for Nothing' Examines a Lotto Winnernew
The fantasy of someday winning the lottery is the ultimate populist pipe dream, but this is the sort of memoir that quells the impulse to engage in the racket.
Metro Times |
Raymond Cummings |
11-13-2007 |
Nonfiction
Roots of Warnew
Giving hell that homey feeling.
Metro Times |
Kelli B. Kavanaugh |
04-17-2007 |
Nonfiction
