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Superheroes Without A Causenew
Incredible powers? Today's comic book crusaders have a problem with that.
New Haven Advocate |
Christopher Arnott |
01-15-2008 |
Books
Imagination Helps Small Bookstores Survivenew
With independent bookshops struggling to hang on in even the largest cities, owners are forced to become even more creative in small places, where their inventory of titles outnumbers the local population.
The Texas Observer |
Stayton Bonner |
01-14-2008 |
Books
Book Reviewing is Dead! Long Live the Book Review!new
Lack of venues and a paucity of critical writing are digging the grave of the book review.
VUE Weekly |
Jay Smith |
12-27-2007 |
Books
Top Ten: The Year in Booksnew
The best argument for the future survival of the book is that writers might want to see a physical manifestation of their work. Call it ego, call it reductive reasoning, call it misplaced Marxist ideals about seeing an actual product produced by their labors, but books-as-objects are just nice to have around. If that makes us Luddites, so be it.
Baltimore City Paper |
Staff |
12-18-2007 |
Books
MAD Magazine Heads to the Librarynew
If only they'd had crystal balls, the juvenile delinquents who read MAD Magazine in the '50s could have blown the ever-lovin' minds of the moms who begged them to stop: "Ma," they'd taunt, "Someday this stuff is gonna be bound up in hardback and shelved in college libraries!"
San Antonio Current |
John DeFore |
11-28-2007 |
Books
Shelf Helpnew
Books to get you through the holidays -- and ready for a new year.
San Francisco Bay Guardian |
Amanda Davidson |
11-28-2007 |
Books
Reading Between the Ancient Linesnew
William Noel oversees a collection of thousands of books, including some 850 medieval manuscripts and 1,500 of the earliest printed books, but one in particular has been monopolizing his time since its arrival in 1999 -- a one-of-a-kind copy of the work of Archimedes.
Baltimore City Paper |
Chris Landers |
11-27-2007 |
Books
Bukowski's Ruin?new
Claim that the author was a Nazi sympathizer delays effort to save his bungalow.
L.A. Weekly |
Matthew Fleischer |
11-26-2007 |
Books
A History of the Nation's First Order of Black Nunsnew
The Oblate Sisters have published a beautiful pictorial history of their order that serves not only as a handsome souvenir for a religious organization that is approaching its 200th year but also a treasury of rare and fascinating images of African-American history in Baltimore.
Baltimore City Paper |
Robbie Whelan |
11-20-2007 |
Books
The Cuban Enigmanew
Ismaelillo, Before Fidel: The Cuba I Remember, and Closed For Repairs plot a trajectory in the tormented life of Cuba, the island at our back door and one of the great enigmas of the American political imagination.
The Texas Observer |
Paul Christensen |
11-19-2007 |
Books
Norman Mailer: Death of a Titannew
Norman Mailer, one of the last surviving 20th-century literary lions, is dead.
San Antonio Current |
Gregg Barrios |
11-14-2007 |
Books
Solar Publishing Brings Environmental Issues to Children's Booksnew
"We want to introduce holistic living in subtle and fun ways to children who typically don't get exposure to different aspects of holistic living, such as vegetarianism, yoga, just being out in nature,"says Robyn Ringgold.
Baltimore City Paper |
Petula Caesar |
11-13-2007 |
Books
Meet Jayne Ann Krentz, Seattle's Best-Selling Authornew
Apart from her obvious productivity, her sales also derive from a willingness to change and adapt old romance genres, which she sees as key to the industry's resurgence.
Seattle Weekly |
Brian Miller |
11-12-2007 |
Books
The Fabio Business Finds Itself Short on Diversitynew
As far as black romance writers go, Edwina Martin-Arnold is about the only game in town.
Seattle Weekly |
Brian Miller |
11-12-2007 |
Books
A Mexican Steinbeck's Work Resurfacesnew
More than 80 years after it originally appeared, this novel's themes resonate, for then as now, the United States and Mexico are wrestling with the consequences of record migration under a system that marginalizes the lowest-skilled workers.
The Texas Observer |
Michele Wucker |
11-05-2007 |
Books
