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Fill your head with candy, Pac-Man, and Crumbnew
The summer months should be a time to seek out necessary shade and cool off with a hot new book title.
San Antonio Current |
Roberto Ontiveros |
05-17-2012 |
Nonfiction
Frank Deford's memoir of the sportswriting high lifenew
Frank Deford is one of America's greatest sportswriters, and although his new memoir, Over Time, probably isn't the place to discover why, it's an engaging, raffish ramble through his 50 years in the peculiar business of writing about sports.
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Helton's 'Drugs' doesn't demand destruction or redemptionnew
Books about drug use appear regularly on publisher's lists, and whether written as fiction or biography, their plots usually follow a pattern that culminates in the message laid down ages ago by Sunday preachers: I've sinned, seen the darkness of hell, but now surrender to the light.
San Antonio Current |
Scott Andrews |
05-17-2012 |
Fiction
A Summer Reading List for 2012new
New books from Richard Ford, Padgett Powell, Jess Walter, and others round out these beach read picks.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Wyatt Williams |
05-15-2012 |
Books
Angry Man Buzz Bissinger Writes Heartwrenching Memoir About His Sonnew
"I first saw him through the window of a hospital operation room," writes Bissinger. "Doctors and nurses surrounded him in a tight circle. He was a bloody quiver in their hands."
Philadelphia Weekly |
Tara Murtha |
05-09-2012 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
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Poetry is Not Dead, It's Eternalnew
An interview with D. A. Powell, Jonathan Galassi and the last unpublished poem by Allen Grossman.
Planet Jackson Hole |
Richard Abowitz |
05-04-2012 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
Do Locavores Suck at Math?new
"An Economist Gets Lunch" offers clever insights (and a little locavore bashing).
LEO Weekly |
J. Christian Walsh |
04-27-2012 |
Nonfiction
The Green in Ganjanew
'Dealing Death and Drugs' shows the human costs of the drug war -- and the importance of marijuana to cartels.
Tucson Weekly |
Greg Harman |
04-26-2012 |
Nonfiction
The Last Stand Mythnew
True or false: The Texan defenders stood their ground, dying to a man within the walls of the Alamo.
San Antonio Current |
Scott Andrews |
04-22-2012 |
Nonfiction
How Texas brought Ronald Reagan back from the deadnew
Looking at America's political map today, it is hard to believe that, for most of the nation's history, Texas was a Democratic stronghold.
San Antonio Current |
Enrique Lopetegui |
04-19-2012 |
Nonfiction
The Final Leapnew
In his new book, John Bateson takes on Golden Gate Bridge suicides.
East Bay Express |
Ellen Cushing |
04-19-2012 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
Getting Lostnew
Rebecca Solnit's reimagined literature.
North Bay Bohemian |
Leilani Clark |
04-13-2012 |
Fiction
Revolutionary Musicnew
Pat Thomas' Listen, Whitey! The Sights and Sounds of Black Power 1965-1975 sets the record straight.
East Bay Express |
Alison Peters |
04-13-2012 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
The Whole Enchilada : ¡Ask a Mexican! columnist Gustavo Arellano talks taco shop with a restaurant criticnew
In 2006, the Weekly Alibi became the only newspaper with the cojones to take a chance on a newly syndicated column called ¡Ask a Mexican! Six years later, the racy Q & A runs weekly in 39 newspapers around the country. Gustavo Arellano has snuck into our hearts like a border-crosser in the trunk of an Impala.
To get the skinny—if there is such a thing—on Mexican food in the U.S., Alibi restaurant critic Ari LeVaux broke tortillas with Arellano about his new book, Taco USA: How Mexican Food Conquered America.
Weekly Alibi |
Ari LeVaux |
04-13-2012 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
Running for Their Livesnew
With his first book, "The Dummy Line," Bobby Cole delivers a fast-paced thriller that pits a man and his daughter against a group of truly sadistic thugs in a night-long wilderness chase.
Jackson Free Press |
Sam Hall |
04-06-2012 |
Fiction
