AltWeeklies Wire
'Lean Out' Urges Women to Create Their Own Culture in Silicon Valleynew

Serial entrepreneur and veteran coder Elissa Shevinsky thinks it's time for women to stop trying to be part of sexist Silicon Valley and to create their own spaces.
Metro Silicon Valley |
Jennifer Wadsworth |
07-24-2015 |
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How Jim Grimsley Unlearned Racist Lessonsnew

Emory professor’s new book revisits how 1960s school integration blew apart his own prejudices.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Christina Lee |
06-10-2015 |
Books
Tyler Durden Returnsnew

Fight Club gains a dark future and deep past via a short story and new graphic novel series.
Colorado Springs Independent |
Matthew Schniper |
05-28-2015 |
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Social Plaguesnew

What The Plague can teach us about ISIS, Gaza and Ferguson.
Santa Fe Reporter |
Lee Miller |
09-24-2014 |
Books
Tags: Albert Camus
Dreamlandnew

All cultures have their own stories: sets of heroes, villains and battles that help establish a national (or at least regional) identity. But sometimes, there’s some disconnect between a culture’s heroes and its current characteristics.
Worcester Magazine |
Jeremy Shulkin |
03-26-2014 |
Books
Tags: Maria Acosta Cruz
5 South Carolina Authors You Wish You’d Heard Ofnew

South Carolina earns its bad press from time to time, but we have at least one reason to hold our heads up: Our literary pedigree ain't half bad.
Charleston City Paper |
Paul Bowers |
03-07-2014 |
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What's a Scofield Thayer?new

What do you call a person who was slandered by Ernest Hemingway, cuckolded by E.E. Cummings, befriended and promoted T.S. Eliot, treated by Sigmund Freud, led modernist art’s charge into American culture in the 1920s and declared officially insane not long after? A damn good subject for a biography.
Worcester Magazine |
Jeremy Shulkin |
02-27-2014 |
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An Assassin Confesses: Chris Faraone on his ebook, "I Killed Breitbart"new

Dig Boston news and features editor Chris Faraone says his confrontation with the late Andrew Breitbart raised the ire of "a few Breitbart minions."
Philadelphia Weekly |
Randy LoBasso |
12-12-2013 |
Books
Tags: Andrew Breitbart
A Manual for Creating Atheists

“This book is essential for nonbelievers who want to do more than just carp about religion, but want to weaken its odious grasp on the world.”
Weekly Alibi |
Staff |
12-10-2013 |
Books
Tags: Peter Boghossian
The God Particle and T.S. Eliotnew

At the metaphysical crossroads.
Santa Fe Reporter |
Lee Miller |
11-07-2013 |
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How to Destroy a Citynew

Two books try to upend familiar systems; one succeeds.
The Stranger |
Paul Constant |
08-15-2013 |
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Sonny's Bluesnew

The struggles explored in James Baldwin's short story mirror those present in Trayvon Martin's killing.
Santa Fe Reporter |
Lee Miller |
07-01-2013 |
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Tags: James Baldwin, Trayvon Martin
Bankrupting Nature: Denying Our Planetary Boundariesnew
Global warming is but one of nine or 10 different ways in which human civilization is threatening to cross boundaries of over-consumption and overuse. These, will undermine the natural foundations on which our civilization is built.
Random Lengths News |
Paul Rosenberg |
04-22-2013 |
Books
Tear Down This Wallnew

The disruption and destruction created by the border wall is shown in photos and words.
Tucson Weekly |
Jon M. Shumaker |
04-07-2013 |
Books
Tags: Krista Schlyer
On the Road's enduring appealnew

'Behind us lay the whole of America'
Creative Loafing (Charlotte) |
Mark Kemp |
04-03-2013 |
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