AltWeeklies Wire
Writer Jeph Loeb's Version of 'Hulk' Marches Onnew
This issue, Loeb teams up with artists Arthur Adams and Frank Cho for two different stories starring two different Hulks.
Creative Loafing (Charlotte) |
Carlton Hargro |
10-29-2008 |
Fiction
'The Fire' is the Latest Guilty Pleasure from Katherine Nevillenew
Not only is it a new book by Neville, who hasn't written anything in nearly two decades, but her last novel, The Eight, is the ultimate let-me-lie-on-the-couch-and-eat-bonbons-while-a-hunky-Persian-man-in-a-loincloth-paints-my-toenails book. The Fire is the next episode in the saga.
The Portland Mercury |
Melissa Lion |
10-24-2008 |
Fiction
Tags: Katherine Neville, The Fire
'Exit Lines': Euthanasia with Humornew
Joan Barfoot's latest novel explores the idea of choice -- the right to choose life or death at will -- through the lives of four very different characters brought together in an old folks home.
Fast Forward Weekly |
Natalie St Denis |
10-23-2008 |
Fiction
Kerouac and Burroughs's Lost Noir is Published At Lastnew
The publication of And the Hippos Were Boiled in Their Tanks, the last known unpublished manuscript by any of the Founding Fathers of the Beat Generation, had to wait for the death of Lucien Carr.
Boston Phoenix |
George Kimball |
10-23-2008 |
Fiction
'The Whiskey Rebels' is Solid Yet Slightly Different Historical Fictionnew
I had some assumptions about historical fiction before I even picked up a copy of The Whiskey Rebels -- and some of them, it turns out, were not unfounded.
San Antonio Current |
Lyle Rosdahl |
10-22-2008 |
Fiction
Much-Praised Legal Thriller 'A Cure for Night' Traffics in Stereotypesnew
A large number of the characters in Justin Peacock's book are African–American. The plot pivots around them. There is no story without them. If they read as caricatures -- and offensive ones, at that -- how can this book be successful?
Philadelphia Weekly |
Liz Spikol |
10-20-2008 |
Fiction
Ron Rash Hits the Jackpot with 'Serena'new
Blood, greed, history and hubris blend and bump together in powerful, explosive combinations in Rash's new novel, Serena.
Creative Loafing (Charlotte) |
John Grooms |
10-16-2008 |
Fiction
'Famous Suicides' Takes on Love and Loss, in Chicago and Ancient Japannew
Mura's book takes as its epigraph Walter Benjamin's oft-repeated statement that history is a tale told by the victors, but the novel shows up this line as a lie. History belongs not to the winners but to the writers and the survivors, who never really win.
Willamette Week |
Matthew Korfhage |
10-16-2008 |
Fiction
'The Soul of All Great Designs' Goes Off the Railsnew
Neil Bissoondath can really write, but in his latest novel he gets trapped by his own unworkable premise.
NOW Magazine |
Susan G. Cole |
10-14-2008 |
Fiction
The Worst Thing About 'Be Good' is That it's Too Shortnew
Though a cover blurb for Stacey May Fowles's first novel proclaims it to be essential reading for women in their 20s, Be Good is also essential for 20-something men.
NOW Magazine |
Jacob Scheier |
10-14-2008 |
Fiction
Jonathan Ames Plays an Anti-Superhero in the Graphic Novel 'The Alcoholic'new
The Alcoholic is destined to become a classic, and Ames owes a large part of this to the graphic skills of Dean Haspiel. There's something irresistibly resonant about Haspiel's style, especially in Jonathan A.'s early years as an ordinary self-loathing teen.
Montreal Mirror |
Juliet Waters |
10-10-2008 |
Fiction
Nick Harkaway's Debut Novel Shows a World Real Gonenew
There are plenty of scary places in the world. But the human imagination will always conjure up something worse. Nick Harkaway's debut novel, Gone Away World, is that kind of scary place -- where the id's gone mad and nightmares eat you.
Charleston City Paper |
Augustine Kim |
10-09-2008 |
Fiction
Tags: Nick Harkaway, The Gone Away World
'Where the River Ends': One Foot In the Gravenew
Florida-based author Charles Martin has continued his run of heart string-tugging stories with his new novel, Where the River End.
Jackson Free Press |
Michael Patronik |
10-06-2008 |
Fiction
'So Many Ways To Sleep Badly' is an Original, Visceral Reading Experiencenew
I give it extra points for including a sex-worker theme that avoids all the overdone stereotypes.
NOW Magazine |
Zoe Whittall |
10-06-2008 |
Fiction
In 'American Wife,' the President's One Good Decision is Choosing His Wifenew
Curtis Sittenfeld's novel is based very loosely on Laura Bush's life. Here she's known as Alice Blackwell, and comes from small-town Wisconsin, not small-town Texas. But that's where the major differences end (unless you want to count the fact that, in the book, she marries a man who you somehow can't help liking).
Montreal Mirror |
Juliet Waters |
10-06-2008 |
Fiction
