AltWeeklies Wire
Liar's Professionnew
"Unauthorized" rock biographers offer the illicit, illegitimate, sniggering-behind-your-hand versions of famous lives.
Boston Phoenix |
James Parker |
02-14-2008 |
Books
Dirty Wordsnew
Lusty busboys, plushies and Dick Cheney. Our book report on five new sex anthologies: Sex for America, The Eaten Heart: Unlikely Tales of Love, Do Me: Tales of Sex and Love from Tin House, SMUT Vol. 1, and My Mistress's Sparrow is Dead.
Willamette Week |
Melissa Lion |
02-13-2008 |
Books
Tags: Sex for America, Stephen Elliott
Ninjas! Robots! Feminism!new
This week, the acclaimed comic book Y: The Last Man comes to an end.
The Portland Mercury |
Erik Henriksen |
01-24-2008 |
Books
Tags: Brian K. Vaughan, Y: The Last Man
Harper's Bizarrenew
Challenging Ursula Le Guin's essay that claims Americans don't read anymore.
New York Press |
Russ Smith |
01-24-2008 |
Books
How Does an Upstart Poetry Publisher Pass the Bullshit Test?new
Technological advancements like print on demand make it easier for poets to move from unrecognized bards to small-time publishing-house bosses -- but these upstarts encounter other hurdles: establishing a reputation, figuring out which poets to pluck from obscurity, and hanging on in a low-profit industry.
Washington City Paper |
Amanda Hess |
01-24-2008 |
Books
Loyola College Students and Teachers Forge a Publishing Partnershipnew
In the basement of Loyola College's Dorothy Day Hall, a quiet revolution is gaining momentum.
Baltimore City Paper |
Darcelle Bleau |
01-15-2008 |
Books
Superheroes Without A Causenew
Incredible powers? Today's comic book crusaders have a problem with that.
New Haven Advocate |
Christopher Arnott |
01-15-2008 |
Books
Imagination Helps Small Bookstores Survivenew
With independent bookshops struggling to hang on in even the largest cities, owners are forced to become even more creative in small places, where their inventory of titles outnumbers the local population.
The Texas Observer |
Stayton Bonner |
01-14-2008 |
Books
The Top 10 Books of 2007new
Though heavy hitters including Michael Ondaatje and M.J. Vassanji dropped novels this year, fiction releases were eclipsed by an amazingly strong non-fiction list that nabbed half the slots on our top-10 list and took the number-one spot for the first time ever.
NOW Magazine |
Susan G. Cole |
12-28-2007 |
Books
Book Reviewing is Dead! Long Live the Book Review!new
Lack of venues and a paucity of critical writing are digging the grave of the book review.
VUE Weekly |
Jay Smith |
12-27-2007 |
Books
The Sturdy Dozennew
The 12 best books of 2007, including The Dangerous Book for Boys, Schulz and Peanuts: A Biography, and more.
Charleston City Paper |
M.L. Van Valkenburgh |
12-26-2007 |
Books
2007's Page Turnersnew
Ten great reads from the past 12 months.
Montreal Mirror |
Juliet Waters |
12-21-2007 |
Books
Twelve Books for Christmasnew
Or Yule, or Kwanzaa, or no reason at all.
Weekly Alibi |
Lisa Lenard-Cook |
12-18-2007 |
Books
Top Ten: The Year in Booksnew
The best argument for the future survival of the book is that writers might want to see a physical manifestation of their work. Call it ego, call it reductive reasoning, call it misplaced Marxist ideals about seeing an actual product produced by their labors, but books-as-objects are just nice to have around. If that makes us Luddites, so be it.
Baltimore City Paper |
Staff |
12-18-2007 |
Books
Coffee-Table Madnessnew
How about $150 worth of cartoons by MAD magazine's Don Martin, or a high-rez peek at Japan's teen fashions, or a $45 dose of Herodotus, a $75 probe of Pixar Studios, or a survey of punk architecture. This is no ordinary gift-books selection.
Boston Phoenix |
Staff |
12-14-2007 |
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