AltWeeklies Wire
The Comic Book Industry's Sketchy Futurenew
Though the industry is currently chugging along with a good bit of steam under it, the margins are still precariously thin in places.
Charleston City Paper |
Jason A. Zwiker |
04-23-2008 |
Books
Book of Imprisoned Women's Writing is Fascinating, Heartbreaking, Amusing & Frighteningnew
Words Without Walls, a book of poetry and drawings from women in Nova Scotian prisons, offers insight into troubled lives and a damaged system.
The Coast, Halifax's Weekly |
Sue Carter Flinn |
04-14-2008 |
Books
Banned Books at the Texas Department of Criminal Justicenew
It's not an easy thing to find out which books the Texas prison system has barred from inmates. But we found a way around it: We asked for a year's correspondence between the TDCJ mailrooms seeking rulings on inmate material and the "Director's Review Committee" that screens the books and magazines. Here's what we found.
Houston Press |
Richard Connelly |
04-08-2008 |
Books
Gladwell Huntingnew
A Nobel Prize winner takes on Malcolm Gladwell over the origins of The Tipping Point.
New York Press |
Matt Elzweig |
04-03-2008 |
Books
Ghost Writersnew
Sad story lurks behind search for GLBT anthology contributions.
Colorado Springs Independent |
Nicolas Alvarado |
03-18-2008 |
Books
Fake Memoirist Channels Sherman Alexienew
Margaret Seltzer's untruths and consequences.
L.A. Weekly |
Matthew Fleischer |
03-14-2008 |
Books
Truth and 'Consequences'new
Book publishers are still so hooked on the cash dreams of true confessions, they'll risk repeated bouts of fake-memoir scandal to give the public what it wants. Last week we learned that half-white/half-Native American author Margaret B. Jones's acclaimed new Love and Consequences, her memoir of gangsta life as a South Central L.A. foster child, was totally made up.
Los Angeles CityBeat |
Natalie Nichols |
03-14-2008 |
Books
Big Books on Tiny Topicsnew
It seems that one surefire way of selling a nonfiction tome is by focusing on a very specific subject. For evidence, one need only look at recent efforts such as Pierre Laszlo's Citrus: A History, Henry Petroski's The Toothpick: Technology and Culture, and Andrew D. Blechman's Pigeons: The Fascinating Saga of the World's Most Revered and Reviled Bird.
San Francisco Bay Guardian |
Johnny Ray Huston |
03-12-2008 |
Books
War Between the Coversnew
A battle-weary reading list.
New Haven Advocate |
Jolisa Gracewood |
03-11-2008 |
Books
Is There Such a Thing as a 'Southern' Memoir?new
There are as many ways of writing a book as there are literary tastes, and as the definition of southern culture evolves with the changing times, so does its literature. But is there within the current memoir craze an emerging southern voice?
Charleston City Paper |
Alli Marshall |
02-27-2008 |
Books
The Reason for Rhymenew
Proponents say the time is right for Colorado to create a poet laureate to ... um, do what, exactly?
Colorado Springs Independent |
Colin Stroud |
02-19-2008 |
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
Dirty Wordsnew
Lusty busboys, plushies and Dick Cheney. Our book report on five new sex anthologies: Sex for America, The Eaten Heart: Unlikely Tales of Love, Do Me: Tales of Sex and Love from Tin House, SMUT Vol. 1, and My Mistress's Sparrow is Dead.
Willamette Week |
Melissa Lion |
02-13-2008 |
Books
Tags: Sex for America, Stephen Elliott
Ninjas! Robots! Feminism!new
This week, the acclaimed comic book Y: The Last Man comes to an end.
The Portland Mercury |
Erik Henriksen |
01-24-2008 |
Books
Tags: Brian K. Vaughan, Y: The Last Man
How Does an Upstart Poetry Publisher Pass the Bullshit Test?new
Technological advancements like print on demand make it easier for poets to move from unrecognized bards to small-time publishing-house bosses -- but these upstarts encounter other hurdles: establishing a reputation, figuring out which poets to pluck from obscurity, and hanging on in a low-profit industry.
Washington City Paper |
Amanda Hess |
01-24-2008 |
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