AltWeeklies Wire
Buddha Barksnew
In Pam Houston's new novel, a talking dog is woman's best friend.
Missoula Independent |
Azita Osanloo |
03-24-2005 |
Fiction
Tags: Pam Houston, Sight Hound
Super Zeros
The lastest AdHouse anthology presents lesser-known supeheroes by indie artists not known for their superhero work
Columbus Alive |
J. Caleb Mozzocco |
03-17-2005 |
Fiction
America's Loss Is Political Cartoonists' Gain
Alt political cartoonists Jen Sorensen's latest "Slowpoke" collection chronicles America's collective slip into insanity.
Columbus Alive |
Nikki Davis |
03-10-2005 |
Fiction
Archie's Gals Gone Wild
Long-time Archie Comics artist Dan DeCarlo's little-seen art for the girly digests of the '50s and '60s evokes Betty and Veronica meets Bettie Page.
Columbus Alive |
J. Caleb Mozzocco |
03-03-2005 |
Fiction
Novel Has Deep and Twisted Centernew
After a 20-year absence, Peter Rushforth has finally given us his second novel, Pinkerton's Sister. (His first was Kindergarten. Think Hansel and Gretel meet the Holocaust.) It's set in fin-de-siecle (Alice likes French, too) New York City, and a plot summary wouldn't tell you a damn thing about it.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Thomas Bell |
03-03-2005 |
Fiction
Oracles of Things Pastnew
Author Jonathan Odell takes The View from Delphi beyond the typical indictment of segregation's moral absurdity to the historical absurdity of thinking you could ever succeed in keeping people apart.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Thomas Bell |
02-17-2005 |
Fiction
Author Holds at Arm's Length the Actual Worldnew
The story is about how we make and transform the meaning of our lives. The protagonist, an alt-weekly rock critic, knows the difference between what happens and what stories we tell about it, but only as cold theory, shadows of the real.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Thomas Bell |
02-10-2005 |
Fiction
New Kid On The Blocnew
Martin Cruz Smith, to his credit, has taken note of the competition, and Wolves Eat Dogs is a lesson in persistence; its steeped cynicism conveys the quality of feeling of a veteran Sovietologist, older and deeper than the disillusion of idealistic young'uns who put in a vodka-drenched post-collegiate year.
City Pages (Twin Cities) |
Jesse Berrett |
01-26-2005 |
Fiction
Tags: Martin Cruz Smith, Wolves Eat Dogs
"DearS" season
Peach-Pit's new alien school girl manga's no where near creative as the artist's or artists' names
Columbus Alive |
J. Caleb Mozzocco |
01-20-2005 |
Fiction
The Amazing Stick Figures of Amazing Rain
Now even cavemen and technophobes can enjoy the incredible stick figure art of popular online artist Sam Brown, thanks to Amazing Rain.
Columbus Alive |
J. Caleb Mozzocco |
01-20-2005 |
Fiction
Something Happenednew
The hero of John Haskell's debut novel "was in the middle of living happily ever after when something happened." His wife and car disappeared from a roadside gas station, setting him off on a wild-goose chase.
The Village Voice |
Joy Press |
01-13-2005 |
Fiction
Deflower Power: Mining the Depths of Reality TVnew
Erik Barmack nails the intricacies of reality dating show conventions in his debut novel. It's about a TV series called The Virgin, in which contestants have a chance to deflower an enigmatic woman named Madison.
The Village Voice |
Joy Press |
01-13-2005 |
Fiction
Personal and Political Conundrumsnew
A selection of fiction that Phoenix reviewers liked this year, including novels by Orhan Pamuk, Philip Roth, Edward St. Aubyn, and Sarah Shun-Lien Bynum.
Boston Phoenix |
Phoenix reviewers |
12-29-2004 |
Fiction
Dennis Cooper Steps Into a Publishing Voidnew
The Sluts brings to life a world that may be unfamiliar to a lot of people: one of hardcore gay sex that walks to the edge of brutal sadomasochism, often jumping in.
New York Press |
Jeff Koyen |
12-22-2004 |
Fiction
Tags: Sex, Little, Alex Kasavin, bottoms, Dennis Cooper, Peter Sotos, Selfish, The Sluts, tops, Void Books
Twilight of the Gods?new
Off his game, but we hope not out of the competition, Philip Roth can't sustain the premise of his audacious historical rewrite.
Seattle Weekly |
Tim Appelo |
12-22-2004 |
Fiction
