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'The Delivery Man': Balls-out Scarynew
Joe McGinniss Jr.'s characters live in the epitome of a moral morass—Las Vegas—but these twentysomething desert rats are searching for a way out. Their efforts make for a fast-paced read, full of scares, gross-outs, and waste.
The Portland Mercury |
Courtney Ferguson |
02-01-2008 |
Fiction
Love in a Time of Mutant STDnew
Harvey Award-winning graphic novelist Charles Burns spent more than a decade crafting Black Hole. It is a profoundly disturbing allegory of adolescence.
Charleston City Paper |
Jason A. Zwiker |
01-16-2008 |
Fiction
The Boy Who ...new
A spoiler-free look at the end of J.K. Rowling's magical tale.
Eugene Weekly |
Molly Templeton |
07-31-2007 |
Fiction
Spit Shine: 'Confessions of a Wallstreet Shoeshine Boy'new
A vivid portrait of a world run by those who mostly don't notice the little people, even when they are walking all over them.
Weekly Alibi |
John Freeman |
07-31-2007 |
Fiction
Of People and Plastics in Printnew
A funny but humbling exploration of what would happen to New York City if humans were gone, wiped out by a virus or a wizard who perfected a way to sterilize our sperm.
San Francisco Bay Guardian |
Sarah Phelan |
07-30-2007 |
Fiction
Novelist Lance Olsen Casts an Eye on Kafka's Insectnew
An enduring literary rumor has it that Gregor Samsa -- the young cloth-salesman who wakes up to find himself possessed of vaguely "numerous" legs and a hard-plated back -- is, specifically, a cockroach.
Willamette Week |
Mark Cunningham |
07-30-2007 |
Fiction
The Boy Who Lived Onnew
With tears and laughter, Harry Potter comes to an end.
Los Angeles CityBeat |
Natalie Nichols |
07-27-2007 |
Fiction
This Book Opens Younew
To read it is to find yourself complicit in anguished dreams, carved and quartered by the eerie harmonics of a jagged, many-edged voice.
From Mary Jane to 'The Plain Janes'new
Highs and lows for women in comics.
Eugene Weekly |
Molly Templeton |
06-28-2007 |
Fiction
Portraits of the Fundamentalist as a Young Mannew
Mohsin Hamid's The Reluctant Fundamentalist and Yasmina Khadra's The Sirens of Baghdad take on the challenge of sympathetically looking through the eyes of the inscrutable.
Baltimore City Paper |
Zak M. Salih |
06-26-2007 |
Fiction
Tags: Fiction Reviews
That's So Gay! (And Lesbian, and Bi, and Trans ... )new
Young adult books for Pride Month -- and all year long.
Eugene Weekly |
Suzi Steffen |
06-21-2007 |
Fiction
Tags: Fiction Reviews
DeLillo Tumbles Backwards at 9/11new
Falling Man is an imperfect book, necessary, but necessarily elusive.
Chicago Newcity |
Ray Pride |
05-30-2007 |
Fiction
Tags: Don DeLillo, Falling Man
'Falling Man': Return to 9/11new
No piece of fiction has come closer to recreating the atmosphere of that day and the days shortly thereafter.
Sacramento News & Review |
John Freeman |
05-25-2007 |
Fiction
Tags: Don DeLillo, Falling Man
Towering Falloutnew
Eisenberg rises above the "post-9/11" hangover.
Seattle Weekly |
Karla Starr |
03-19-2007 |
Fiction
Everybody Is All-Americannew
Andersen hasn't created something new in regard to the American historical novel, but he has presented it in a new (gas)light.
Washington City Paper |
Allen Barra |
03-02-2007 |
Fiction
Tags: Heyday, Kurt Andersen
