AltWeeklies Wire
‘Mad World: An Oral History of New Wave Artists and Songs That Defined the '80s’new
Gossipy tome brings out the best and worst secrets of a colorful decade.
Orlando Weekly |
Billy Manes |
05-08-2014 |
Nonfiction
'Dinosaur Jr.'new
Limited edition photo book places J Mascis’ tightly run ship in a bottle for fans to examine at leisure.
Orlando Weekly |
Ashley Belanger |
05-08-2014 |
Nonfiction
Wayward Son Carries Onnew
Tampa-born journalist paints an unflattering but entertaining portrait of Florida in Finding Florida: The True History of the Sunshine State
Orlando Weekly |
Mark I. Pinsky |
03-06-2013 |
Nonfiction
Tags: T.D. Allman
Books for Cooksnew
Volumes of food porn, kitchen science and gastronomic philosophy that earn their place on the shelf.
Orlando Weekly |
Jessica Bryce Young |
12-22-2011 |
Nonfiction
Social Insecuritynew
In 2001, Nickel and Dimed got rapturous reviews for its exposure of the invisible poor; 10 years later, the groundbreaking investigation feels like usiness as usual.
Orlando Weekly |
Seth Kubersky |
09-22-2011 |
Nonfiction
Tags: Barbara Ehrenreich
You Must Go and Win
Black Soviet humor pervades this collection of essays by struggling musician Alina Simone.
Orlando Weekly |
Jessica Bryce Young |
07-06-2011 |
Nonfiction
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
Looking for 400 Photos of Supersized Stiffies?new
The Big Penis Book, the follow-up to Taschen's 2006 hit The Big Book of Breasts, also edited by Dian Hanson, and boasts more than 400 photos of some startlingly major tent poles, including rare pics of "the 13-and-only" John Holmes.
Orlando Weekly |
Liz Langley |
06-12-2008 |
Nonfiction
A Hyperliterate Piss-Take?new
The story that Jason Roberts (who, not surprisingly, is a contributor to McSweeney’s) tells is apparently a true one.
Orlando Weekly |
Jason Ferguson |
06-22-2006 |
Nonfiction
Sprawl Talesnew
The true-blue Florida boy shares the slow-heartbreak story of how he bought and lovingly restored a venerable Cracker house in Seminole County.
Orlando Weekly |
Lindy T. Shepherd |
03-30-2006 |
Nonfiction
The Big Book of Pornnew
Finally, a book about pornography that doesn't get buried in socio-scientific mumbo-jumbo about exploitation and instead focuses on the garish, classless fun of it all.
Orlando Weekly |
Jason Ferguson |
02-02-2006 |
Nonfiction
New Frontiersnew
In his debut book, television host and documentarian Louis Theroux chronicles his follow-up encounters with the people who populated his BBC show Weird Weekends.
Orlando Weekly |
Louis Theroux |
12-01-2005 |
Nonfiction
Being Arab in an Increasingly Hostile Worldnew
Infusing the personal into the political (or vice-versa), Ahdaf Soueif dances through the minefield of "Arab" identity in this remarkable collection of essays written over the past 20-plus years.
Orlando Weekly |
Jason Ferguson |
11-05-2005 |
Nonfiction
A Mystifying Failurenew
Cleverly titled, interestingly premised and poorly written, Small Mediums at Large is as promising as it is frustrating.
Orlando Weekly |
Jason Ferguson |
11-05-2005 |
Nonfiction
