AltWeeklies Wire
20 Astoundingly Bad Romance Novel Coversnew
Moaning, groaning, and oiled-hunk-boning with Uncle Walter & Co.
Boston Phoenix |
Uncle Walter and the Wife |
02-10-2011 |
Books
Tags: Romance Novels
A Sweet Crop of New Graphic Narrativesnew
Comics. Graphic novels. Sequential-art books. Call them what you will, but there are more of them than ever. Here's a rundown on some of the best from the past few months.
Boston Phoenix |
Mike Miliard |
10-15-2009 |
Books
Bookstores Fight Back With Instant Paperbacksnew
Battered booksellers have a secret weapon that they hope will continue to lure customers into their stores. Would you believe it's a machine that can print up a fresh new paperback copy from a menu of 3.6 million books?
Boston Phoenix |
Ethan Gilsdorf |
09-24-2009 |
Books
Fall Nonfiction: Tomes From The 'Fact' Departmentnew
It's the economy, stupid. Or maybe politics or literature. Fall nonfiction goes wide and deep, so plan for some marathon reading.
Boston Phoenix |
Barbara Hoffert |
09-17-2009 |
Books
New Treats From Old Friends In Fall Booksnew
Margaret Atwood, A.S. Byatt, Philip Roth, Paul Auster, John Ashberry, and, yes, Vladimir Nabakov have new tales to tell.
Boston Phoenix |
Barbara Hoffert |
09-17-2009 |
Books
The Best in Summer Readingnew
Hot town, summer in the city ... or in the country ... or at the beach. Wherever you are, don't forget your books. Here's the latest from Thomas Pynchon, a restored edition of Ernest Hemingway's A Moveable Feast, and much, much more.
Boston Phoenix |
Barbara Hoffert |
06-10-2009 |
Books
The Post-Modern 'Art' of Twitter Fictionnew
Twitter technology lets you write a novel 140 characters at a time. And you want to do this why?
Boston Phoenix |
Mike Miliard |
01-16-2009 |
Books
Gift Books for Every (Perverse) Tastenew
Who knew? We asked for holiday gift books and got Japanese bondage photos, a photo-documentary about phone-sex workers, The Best of Sexology, The Annotated Dracula, a collection of Patricia Highsmith's macabre Ripley novels, and a book about "the best restaurant in the world" that is, let's face it, food porn.
Boston Phoenix |
Staff & Contributors |
12-12-2008 |
Books
Two Boston Poets Use Their Art for the Good of the Tribenew
What if a poem were a social force? Boston poets Rafael Campo and Franz Wright have laid bare a live wire between poetry and isolation.
Boston Phoenix |
James Parker |
11-26-2008 |
Books
Fall Books for Winners and Sinnersnew
Ah, fall, when Nobel Prize winners are announced -- and, now, when past winners turn up with more good reading.
Boston Phoenix |
Barbara Hoffert |
09-11-2008 |
Books
Tags: Books, fall preview
Blogging the Baby-Sitters Clubnew
Aging children blog the series because they still care what Claudia is wearing.
Boston Phoenix |
Caitlin E. Curran |
04-24-2008 |
Books
Pants Afirenew
If your father presided over a blood-drinking sex cult, or if you ran with wolves and had your wounds healed by their antiseptic saliva, you're a fully accredited citizen of Fabrication Nation. You should write a book.
Boston Phoenix |
James Parker |
03-13-2008 |
Books
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
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 |
Books
In Search of Kerouacnew
As we approach the first-edition anniversary of anti-luminary Jack Kerouac's On the Road, we stick out our thumb and ask: "Whither goest thou, America?" And a thoroughly Beat America answers: "Lowell." Plus a schedule of Kerouac celebrations.
Boston Phoenix |
James Parker |
08-30-2007 |
Books
Tags: Jack Kerouac, On the Road
