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Martone on Martonenew
Michael Martone has constructed a perpetual stutter of a novel: 45 hyper-revisionary variations on his own contributor's note, each beginning with the same sentence.
The Village Voice |
Carla Blumenkranz |
01-04-2006 |
Fiction
Tags: Michael Martone
Amber Alertnew
This Bunuelian take on dysfunction demands that we make decisions.
The Village Voice |
Jessica Winter |
01-04-2006 |
Fiction
Tags: Ali Smith, The Accidental
War and Peacenew
Since September 11, publishers have been rushing to publish non-fiction books about anything relating to the upheavals in the Middle East. They've been much slower about supplying us with imaginative tales from these regions, but the trickle has begun.
Boston Phoenix |
John Freeman |
01-03-2006 |
Fiction
Tags: Various Titles, Various Authors
Speeding Through Lifenew
The Phoenix lists the best fiction and poetry of 2005.
Boston Phoenix |
Jon Garelick |
12-23-2005 |
Fiction
Tags: yearinreview2005
Bigfoot Tells All in Me Write Booknew
Given that Bigfoot was always a creature more animal than human, expectations for his memoir weren’t high. Fortunately, Graham Roumieu’s brilliantly funny illustrations do much to fill in the inevitable gaps.
Montreal Mirror |
Juliet Waters |
12-19-2005 |
Fiction
Screwing With Your Headnew
The author uses this method in attracting readers: The bigger the lie, the more they'll believe it.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Thomas Bell |
12-15-2005 |
Fiction
The Better To Givenew
These are not typical gift books. These are books for the rest of us -- books we would actually buy for ourselves, and our loved ones, be they geek or hipster, intellectual or meathead.
Boston Phoenix |
Boston Phoenix staff |
12-13-2005 |
Fiction
Black Holenew
Black Hole, the new release by ex-RAW magazine artist Charles Burns, is a wonderfully disturbing and imaginative graphic novel.
Dig Boston |
Paul McMorrow |
12-08-2005 |
Fiction
Tags: Black Hole, Charles Burns
Bibliophile in a Bindnew
The House of Paper is nevertheless a soulful study of the peculiar passions and perils of bibliomania.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Thomas Bell |
12-08-2005 |
Fiction
Cookie-Cutter Prosenew
The senator's first novel uses language as poetic and moving as a Capitol Hill memo.
Schoolboy Turned Guerrillanew
Told from the perspective of a young boy coerced into militancy by an indiscriminately violent civil war that overtakes his never-named African country, Beasts of No Nation is far more than just a treatise on the far-reaching effects of war.
Orlando Weekly |
Jason Ferguson |
12-01-2005 |
Fiction
The Nonagenarian and the Virginnew
Ten years is a long time to wait, and 115 small pages is something of an insult to the patient few still hoping to find resonance and relevance in Gabriel Garcia Marquez's increasingly repetitive oeuvre.
Orlando Weekly |
Jason Ferguson |
12-01-2005 |
Fiction
Charles Burns’s Grand Experimentnew
Black Hole is an illustrated novel focused on sex, the emotional ramifications of sex, our sex dreams, and every Freudian and Jungian sex trope under the sun.
Boston Phoenix |
Matthew Shaer |
11-29-2005 |
Fiction
Tags: Black Hole, Charles Burns
Flying The Skull And Funnybones
Gideon Defoe's "Pirates!" adventure books are a blast, and if you're not careful, you just may learn something -- nothing of any value, of course, but something.
Columbus Alive |
Bob Starker |
11-17-2005 |
Fiction
A Bird! A Plane! A Conservative!new
In the first-ever comic book explicitly by and for conservatives, patriotic superhero Captain America is irrelevant because, says co-creator Mike Mackey, "traditional American values are not traditional anymore."
Boston Phoenix |
Mike Miliard |
11-11-2005 |
Fiction
