AltWeeklies Wire
Apocalypse How?new

Young adult sci-fi is supposed to make us question society. Is the current crop of young adult dystopian lit holding up its end of the bargain?
Orlando Weekly |
Ashley Belanger |
08-22-2012 |
Fiction
Six books for the beach – or rainy days indoorsnew

Six books that will see you through summer afternoons.
Orlando Weekly |
Jessica Bryce Young |
07-06-2012 |
Fiction
Tags: Summer Books
Five From Floridanew

Some newer releases from Sunshine State authors
Orlando Weekly |
Jessica Bryce Young |
12-22-2011 |
Fiction
Ten Thousand Saints
The power of "Ten Thousand Saints" may not be in its plot but in its cultural locus.
Orlando Weekly |
Jessica Bryce Young |
07-06-2011 |
Fiction
Flying With Scissorsnew
True confessions from the super set.
Orlando Weekly |
Steve Schneider |
06-22-2007 |
Fiction
Not to Be Overlookednew
Pamuk is best known for one controversy -- his continuing campaign for recognition of the Armenian genocide has made him a pariah to many in Turkey.
Orlando Weekly |
Jason Ferguson |
07-06-2006 |
Fiction
Tags: Orhan Pamuk, The Black Book
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
Bob Morris: Dead but Not Donenew
When people say they don't give a "flying fuck," typically it's just an expression. But it's explained plausibly as a water-slide activity in Jamaica Me Dead, the second installment of Bob Morris's Caribbean mystery trilogy.
Orlando Weekly |
Lindy T. Shepherd |
09-30-2005 |
Fiction
Tags: Jamaica Me Dead, Lindy T. Shepherd