AltWeeklies Wire
'The Third Reich' by Roberto Bolañonew
A few years after George Steiner penned an essay about Hitler's architect Albert Speer for the New Yorker and New Wave sellouts Spandau Ballet cracked the top 40 by singing songs about truth and precious metals, an obscure Chilean poet who once swore he'd never write novels began work on a beach comedy called The Third Reich that he promptly placed in a drawer.
San Antonio Current |
Roberto Ontiveros |
02-16-2012 |
Fiction
Living Livesnew
This novel, focusing on a Mexican-American family, is brief but powerful.
Tucson Weekly |
Nick Depascal |
12-30-2011 |
Fiction
Five From Floridanew
Some newer releases from Sunshine State authors
Orlando Weekly |
Jessica Bryce Young |
12-22-2011 |
Fiction
Stragglers own the center of 'Before the End'new
Dagoberto Gilb's new collection, Before the End, After the Beginning, is filled with the strivers, drifters, and dreamers who inhabit the Southwest from Los Angeles to Austin, that long road of exile that runs from broken memories towards the next hopeful, bewildering horizon.
San Antonio Current |
Scott Andrews |
12-22-2011 |
Fiction
A Child's View From a Hot Place Fails to Escape the Pitnew
Hell, despite what Sartre, said about it being “other people,” is usually depicted as a lonely place, either the cascading trauma of lost relations in Clive Barker's The Hellbound Heart, or the clammy cochlea of torture tunnels in the those too-loud Pinhead movies inspired by his quite novella.
San Antonio Current |
Roberto Ontiveros |
10-27-2011 |
Fiction
The Exorcist Novel Turns 40new
Perhaps the reason The Exorcist is such a terrifying experience is because author William Peter Blatty wasn’t even trying to be scary.
San Antonio Current |
Enrique Lopetegui |
10-26-2011 |
Fiction
Tags: The Exorcist, William Peter Blatty
Time for Fine Fall Paperbacksnew
This week, we're looking at new fall paperbacks we feel are worth your time.
Creative Loafing (Charlotte) |
John Grooms |
10-24-2011 |
Fiction
Wilmington's John Jeremiah Sullivan Roughs it in Pulpheadnew
The wide-ranging subjects in Pulphead are unified into a coherent book by Sullivan's fine prose and lively voice, which can be scholarly, snarky, lyrical or harsh as suits the occasion.
In his new novel, Nightwoods, Charles Frazier returns to the Appalachians for inspirationnew
Frazier has a natural dramatic instinct, and Nightwoods is a shrewd piece of writing—shrewder still for its I-see-what-you-did-there literary and cultural references.
Lewis Shiner's Dark Tangos, a Novel of Argentina's Dirty Warnew
Dark Tangos is a frank and direct look at the horrific underpinnings of the Argentinian people's complaint against their former government, and Shiner's precise and unmannered description, much like his description of the tango, is more illuminating than more stylized prose.
Tags: Dark Tangos
Clyde Edgerton's new novel, The Night Train, is his best in yearsnew
The Night Train is very much about the slow, pained shift in race relations during one important moment, but its 200 pages speak to life, not laws.
Tags: Clyde Edgerton
Comic review: 50 Girls 50new
Famed artist Frank Cho teams with writer Doug Murray to co-script this brand-new sci-fi property.
Creative Loafing (Charlotte) |
Carlton Hargro |
07-20-2011 |
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
Bleak Frames and Guiltnew
David Lester depicts the shadowy relationship between words and actions in the graphic novel, The Listener.
San Francisco Bay Guardian |
Nicole Gluckstern |
05-27-2011 |
Fiction
In His Memoir, Jimmy Creech Recounts His Struggles Against Anti-Gay Religious Discriminationnew
Adam's Gift is about the tumultuous years in his life when, as a Methodist pastor, he was called in the words of the subtitle "to defy the church's persecution of lesbians and gays."
