AltWeeklies Wire
Pondering Parenting with Summer Woodnew

Her novel Wrecker takes a tender look at a troubled child.
East Bay Express |
Anneli Rufus |
02-28-2011 |
Fiction
Tags: Summer Wood, Wrecker
'Girls in Trucks' Tracks a Former Debutante's Adjustment to Adult Life in New Yorknew
Katie Crouch's debut novel has all the believable bad decisions, the unflinching sex, the spunk, and polish of an authentic Gen-X memoir, but it's fiction.
East Bay Express |
John Minervini |
05-01-2008 |
Fiction
'The Ten Year Nap' Explores the 'Opt-Out Revolution'new
This is a novel of manners as much as a literary take on a sociological dilemma, and as a portrait of the modern heterosexual urban bourgeoisie, much of it is wickedly bang-on.
East Bay Express |
Jolisa Gracewood |
05-01-2008 |
Fiction
Black Hole is a Fascinating Exploration of Growing Upnew
Set mainly in the Pacific Northwest, circa mid-1970s, Black Hole is the story, part science fiction, part horror, part coming-of-age, of a strange sexually transmitted disease that physically deforms those who catch it.
East Bay Express |
Jason A. Zwiker |
01-30-2008 |
Fiction
Work Can Be Considered Honest Enterprisenew
Two Lives uses the literary equivalent of investigative journalism to illuminate segments of the relationship that peek out from between reams of scholarship -- all while tackling the serious business of biography and literary criticism
East Bay Express |
Zak M. Salih |
01-30-2008 |
Fiction
I Wrote a Book 'Bout Rock 'n' Rollnew
At long last, Dr. Frank steps onto the literary stage.
East Bay Express |
Rob Harvilla |
04-03-2006 |
Fiction
Tags: Frank Portman, King Dork
It Was This Bignew
If everyone's as busy as they claim to be, we have to wonder at the current renaissance in mountainous novels.
East Bay Express |
Anneli Rufus |
11-29-2004 |
Fiction
Tags: Various Authors, Holiday Reading