AltWeeklies Wire
Blasts From the Pastnew
Celebrate the shelf life of good books this holiday season.
San Francisco Bay Guardian |
Michelle Tea |
11-29-2006 |
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Do You Haiku?new
We celebrate Siobhan Adcock's Hipster Haiku with one of our own.
Los Angeles CityBeat |
Natlie Nichols |
11-28-2006 |
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'Chewing Gum' for the Eyesnew
From meat sculptures to pint-sized psychopaths, these books boast all you need to beat the yule blues.
Philadelphia Weekly |
Willa Rohrer |
11-20-2006 |
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Written Prescriptionnew
Not every Portland writer is a 25-year-old hipster -- a local nonprofit gives local drug addicts, abused spouses and the elderly some pen power.
Willamette Week |
Paige Richmond |
11-08-2006 |
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The Good Partsnew
I found my place in the world by writing erotica.
Baltimore City Paper |
Petula Caesar |
10-03-2006 |
Books
His Waynew
The "absolutely honest" Charles Bukowski finds a home at The Huntington.
Pasadena Weekly |
Nikki Bazar |
09-19-2006 |
Books
Real Chick Litnew
WriteGirl creates a safe space for girls to grow into themselves.
L.A. Alternative |
Lucinda Michele Knapp |
07-25-2006 |
Books
Psych Jobnew
A gypsy fortuneteller pulls one over on publishing giant Judith Regan.
New Times Broward-Palm Beach |
Bob Norman |
07-18-2006 |
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One Blowhard Down, Plenty to Gonew
The outing of Ann Coulter as a likely plagiarist by professor John Barrie's scanning software could help usher in a new era of author accountability.
East Bay Express |
Chris Thompson |
07-17-2006 |
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What Happened to Stephen King?new
The author rolls on, but pop fiction may not see such a juggernaut again.
Los Angeles CityBeat |
Mick Farren |
07-14-2006 |
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Sex in the Age of Ironynew
Whip-smart women dominate in a call girl's memoir, Belle de Jour, and Shelley Jackson's novel, Half Life.
L.A. Weekly |
Nathan Ihara |
07-13-2006 |
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Ghetto Fictionnew
It used to be what you'd hear at the barbershop, and now it's being passed off as literature.
Philadelphia Weekly |
Kia Gregory |
06-05-2006 |
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'Mehta' Fictionnew
Just sit back and enjoy the source of the latest plagiarism scandal.
The Village Voice |
Ed Park |
05-24-2006 |
Books
Chain Reactionnew
Do bookstores have a future?
The Village Voice |
Paul Collins |
05-24-2006 |
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Crazed Catholicsnew
Dan Brown's The Da Vinci Code is a work of fiction, but it makes sense of an absurd and chaotic world -- people like that, and they respond.
L.A. Weekly |
Greg Burk |
05-18-2006 |
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