AltWeeklies Wire
Remembrance of Persons Pastnew
Death, like magic and insanity, has always provided a good excuse for authors to go nonlinear with their writing, and Brockmeier uses the opportunity to gorgeous effect.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Thomas Bell |
02-09-2006 |
Fiction
Being Frank Steinnew
Frank recounts the beastly book he stitched together from the fundamental particles of language discovered during his prodigal studies of modern linguistics.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Thomas Bell |
02-02-2006 |
Fiction
High on Lifenew
This adventure story is also a melancholy reflection on what matters in a life: adventure or acquisitions, challenge or comfort, passion or position?
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Thomas Bell |
01-19-2006 |
Fiction
Slim to Nilnew
Bob Armstrong's reflections would be a fascinating story, if only he hadn't tried so hard to write himself into the role of street prophet and pimp poet.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Thomas Bell |
01-12-2006 |
Fiction
Screwing With Your Headnew
The author uses this method in attracting readers: The bigger the lie, the more they'll believe it.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Thomas Bell |
12-15-2005 |
Fiction
Bibliophile in a Bindnew
The House of Paper is nevertheless a soulful study of the peculiar passions and perils of bibliomania.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Thomas Bell |
12-08-2005 |
Fiction
It's an Irresistable Literary Conceitnew
Since 1969, George McDonald Fraser's "Flashman" series has been arguably the funniest -- and most educational -- series of novels being published.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Thomas Bell |
11-10-2005 |
Fiction
Eden Moore Sees Dead Peoplenew
If you're looking for a Stephen King-style, piss-your-pants fright fest, Four and Twenty Blackbirds will disappoint. Priest is at times overly clinical, and many of the main character's ghosts hold no more terror than a kiss from your stinky Aunt Edna.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Thomas Bell |
10-27-2005 |
Fiction
How Popeye Lost His Eyenew
Little Red Riding Hood, Dick Tracy, Popeye the Sailor Man ... don't let the characters fool you. Big Lonesome isn't written for kids, at least not for the pasteurized milk-fed children of the Disney generations.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Thomas Bell |
10-13-2005 |
Fiction
A Near War on Junk Foodnew
Like the film Traffic on sugar and triglycerides, Christopher Largen's novel Junk takes us on a tour of a near future "war" on junk food, complete with a food czar, a Food Enforcement Agency, and mandatory sentences for possession of hamburgers, doughnuts and milk shakes.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Thomas Bell |
10-06-2005 |
Fiction
Novel Goes For Something Sweet Rather Than Scandalnew
A 20-year-old Elvis Presley -- a hillbilly with a funny-sounding name who's just beginning to get noticed on the country music scene -- shares an extended, intimate correspondence with the straight-talking Achsa McEachern, a prodigal 14-year-old Atlanta girl who has skipped three grades in school and is racing toward a bright future in New York City's theater scene, even as her family slowly self-destructs.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Thomas Bell |
09-01-2005 |
Fiction
At Play in the Fields of the Borgnew
Paul Di Filippo is not a sci-fi master -- not yet, anyway -- but he is a skilled journeyman who has explored more of the sci-fi universe than most.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Thomas Bell |
08-25-2005 |
Fiction
Book Written as Letter to Bin Ladennew
The novel is written as a letter to Osama bin Laden from a distraught unnamed woman whose husband and son were killed in an al-Qaeda bombing of a London football stadium. It was released in Britain on the same day as the real-life bombings of the London mass transit system.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Thomas Bell |
08-04-2005 |
Fiction
Author Channels Monty Python In New Booknew
Though there are no Knights Who Say "Ni" in Rat Scabies and the Holy Grail, author Christopher Dawes was clearing channeling Monty Python in his real-life quest aimed at "converting [my] loft and/or finding Holy Grail."
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Thomas Bell |
07-28-2005 |
Fiction
Sixth Book Concludes the 'B-Boy Blues' Seriesnew
For those of you who have been following the now six-book saga, James Earl Hardy is at last giving these two black same-gender lovers the happy ending they deserve in A House Is Not a Home.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Thomas Bell |
07-07-2005 |
Fiction
