AltWeeklies Wire
The Worst-Case Best Sellernew
Disaster lit has become a perfect storm for the publishing industry. Smell a hurricane coming? Grab your pen and notebook.
Seattle Weekly |
Tim Appelo |
10-12-2005 |
Books
How Can You Laugh?new
With their embarrassing confessions, a new breed of authors begs to be humiliated.
East Bay Express |
Anneli Rufus |
10-10-2005 |
Books
Of Mice and Magicnew
Kid lit has gone way beyond the classic Winnie-the-Pooh.
Seattle Weekly |
Roger Downey |
10-05-2005 |
Books
Fall Books Defy Disasternew
This coming fall and winter are thin on fiction but large on hulking works of non-fiction that might help us catch up with this runaway bobsled called planet Earth.
Boston Phoenix |
John Freeman |
09-27-2005 |
Books
Tags: in, wedding, George, of, Smith, John, a, rice, Christ, child, Robert, Joan, out, Frank, Mom, Jonathan, Collins, Goodwin, Gabriel, Wilson, Again, Anita, Anne, Berry, Billy, Bloom, Brand, Carol, Christopher, Coover, cotton, December, Didion, Doris, Dyer, Egypt, Eric, Fisk, Foner, Garcia, Geoff, H.W., Harold, Hodgman, Joanna, Joyce, Kearns, Kenneth, Kevin, Koch, Lord:, Marquez, McCourt, melancholy, Memories, Missing, My, Oates, Packer, Patti, Raban, Rafi, Scott, Shreve, SZYMBORSKA, Wendell, whores, WISLAWA, young, Zabor
Cash Woesnew
A new spate of books shows how the love of money infects our lives.
Baltimore City Paper |
Joab Jackson |
09-19-2005 |
Books
Tags: Various Titles, Various Authors
Words Return: The Best of 9/11 Fiction
Maureen Leary sees the birth of a genre as she surveys the best of the current crop of 9/11-related fiction.
True Fact Vs. True Fictionnew
An essay by the reclusive literary star J.T. Leroy in the Oxford American's annual music issue turns out to be a whale of a tale.
Houston Press |
John Nova Lomax |
08-29-2005 |
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What's Out There?new
New lit mag High Desert Journal goes looking for its place.
Missoula Independent |
Skylar Browning |
08-26-2005 |
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Fifty Years After His Disappearance, Poet Lives Onnew
Renewed attention to Weldon Kees is a peculiar literary revival tale, in which one enthusiast after another seems to discover his own life story in Kees, then proselytizes on behalf of the forgotten poet.
Mixing Books and Boozenew
In Seattle, poetry is the new rock 'n' roll.
Seattle Weekly |
Neal Schindler |
07-20-2005 |
Books
Colorado Town Revives Despised Satirenew
Putting hurt feelings aside after 70 years, Grand Junction is resurrecting Eclipse, the Dalton Trumbo novel that satirized the town.
Overcoming Writer's Block at the Learning Annexnew
A man who makes his living infiltrating events and writing about them is plumb out of ideas until he signs up for a writing class under the pseudonym Armando Leonardo.
Tags: memoir
