AltWeeklies Wire
Real Chick Litnew
WriteGirl creates a safe space for girls to grow into themselves.
L.A. Alternative |
Lucinda Michele Knapp |
07-25-2006 |
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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 |
Books
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 |
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 |
Books
The Passion of Dan Brownnew
The Da Vinci Code: crap or fiction?
San Antonio Current |
Cole Haddon |
05-17-2006 |
Books
Bride of Frankensteinnew
Harvard student Kaavya Viswanathan committed plagiarism with the help of an invisible and ruthless marketing machine.
Los Angeles CityBeat |
Andrew Gumbel |
05-12-2006 |
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Leading the Waynew
An independent black publisher cracks the national best-seller list for the first time with The Covenant With Black America.
Baltimore City Paper |
Makkada B. Selah |
04-07-2006 |
Books
Courtney's Family Cursenew
Kurt Cobain's wild widow comes from a long line of misbehaving mamas, as documented by a slew of books -- some new, some old.
Seattle Weekly |
Tim Appelo |
03-22-2006 |
Books
Jersey Guynew
With words, pictures and a podcast, the serial Web novel True Jersey takes fiction to new dimensions.
Philadelphia City Paper |
A.D. Amorosi |
03-21-2006 |
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Tags: podcasting
Do the Write Thingnew
The small, leftist publishing house Chelsea Green is having a national impact.
Seven Days |
Cathy Resmer |
03-17-2006 |
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Octavia E. Butler, 1947-2006new
Butler's 12 science-fiction novels encourage a compulsion to tear through one after the other, to never want to be away from her sprawling universes and her staggering humanity.
The Village Voice |
Dream Hampton |
03-08-2006 |
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Octavia Butler, 1947-2006new
Butler's work was grounded in the reality of a grim, racist Pasadena that Jackie Robinson, another native son, hated and never wanted to return to.
L.A. Weekly |
Jervey Tervalon |
03-02-2006 |
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Bucking the Programnew
Will addicts ever recover from James Frey's A Million Little Pieces?
Reno News & Review |
Anonymous |
02-02-2006 |
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