AltWeeklies Wire
Grad Students Challenge Intelligent Designnew
Barbara Shaw and other graduate students are calling on the Library of Congress to re-classify intelligent design books into sections other than the science section.
The Portland Mercury |
Amy J. Ruiz |
11-01-2007 |
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Tags: design, intelligent
James Frey, Julia Allison, & Other Writers I'd Like to Fucknew
Writers are notorious for being sexy and fuckable -- here are a few WILFs on my list.
New York Press |
Kelly Kreth |
11-01-2007 |
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John Grisham Sued for Libelnew
Prosecutor and investigator not happy with The Innocent Man, the author's nonfiction debut.
C-Ville Weekly |
Scott Weaver |
10-10-2007 |
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The Big Read Programs Wants You to Read One Booknew
According to a report entitled Reading at Risk: A Survey of Literary Reading in America, issued by the National Endowment for the Arts, reading in America -- literary reading, in the form of novels, short stories, poetry, and plays -- is declining dramatically.
The Memphis Flyer |
Leonard Gill |
10-02-2007 |
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Are Dan Clowes' Graphic Novels 'Borderline Pornography'?new
Apparently in Guilford, Ct., they are.
New Haven Advocate |
Christopher Arnott |
10-02-2007 |
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Stuart Dybek, the Budding Geniusnew
Can the 65-year-old silence critics who say the MacArthur Foundation picks authors who are over the hill?
Chicago Reader |
Deanna Isaacs |
10-01-2007 |
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Have Your Fall Books Yet?new
This autumn, hide inside, shun the cruel farce known as "society" and spend time with the one friend who won't ultimately betray you and leave you for dead: the printed word.
Dig Boston |
Paul McMorrow |
09-20-2007 |
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Bukowski Home Threatenednew
Activists in Los Angeles are calling on artists, writers, historic preservationists and concerned citizens to help save the onetime Hollywood home of poet and novelist Charles Bukowski from possible demolition.
Pasadena Weekly |
Joe Piasecki |
09-18-2007 |
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Fall Books Preview: Run for Covernew
Spooks, Vietnam vets, Jews with swords and a superstore apocalypse are coming at you this fall.
Montreal Mirror |
Juliet Waters |
09-14-2007 |
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'Supercapitalism' and 'Falling Behind' Examine Income Gapnew
The new books by Robert Reich and Robert Frank explore the painful divide between the rich and the rest of us.
Metro Silicon Valley |
Michael S. Gant |
09-13-2007 |
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Jack Kerouac's 'On the Road' Hits 50new
As the novel's 50th anniversary approaches, some books with helpful hints about what that might have been are landing in bookstores.
Weekly Alibi |
John Freeman |
09-11-2007 |
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Bookstore Shelves Creak with Racist Panic Booksnew
This week we think about 9/11, and everything that came after, including the first new literary genre of the millennium: Islamic panic.
Philadelphia Weekly |
Staff |
09-10-2007 |
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Remembering Grace Paleynew
If I have any nascent wisdom in my head, Grace, it's this: You were always much wiser and less foolish than you let on.
Seven Days |
Mike Ives |
09-05-2007 |
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Texas A&M Press: A Bush Administration Mouthpiece?new
If you've picked up a catalog from Texas A&M Press lately, you've no doubt noticed all of the battleships and generals and wars.
Fort Worth Weekly |
Cynthia Shear |
08-24-2007 |
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Literary Dreamers Find Homes at Tiny DIY Pressesnew
Whatever's overly cloying gets edited, marketed and sold by the NYC publishing industry -- anything else often gets a great big "It's a go!" from a chipper editor, but gets redlined once it reaches the marketing department. Here's what independent publishers can do.
Metro Times |
Rebecca Mazzei |
08-21-2007 |
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