AltWeeklies Wire
Verbal Landscapes of Durham Poet Tony Tostnew
These poems will not take readers gently by the hand and guide us from point A to point B. We are given breadcrumbs to follow and led deeper and deeper into the forest of Tost's language.
Agree, or Don'tnew
Our book critics pick their best of 2007. Feel free to argue.
Sacramento News & Review |
Jonathan Kiefer, Kel Munger and Melinda Welsh |
12-06-2007 |
Books
A Look at How We Receive New Forms of Representationnew
In Uncanny Bodies, Robert Spadoni argues that during the silents-to-sound era of 1927–1931, movie audiences had to make a perceptual adjustment to accept the idea of synchronized sound.
Metro Silicon Valley |
Michael S. Gant |
12-06-2007 |
Nonfiction
Spalding Weaves Herself Into Crime Narrativenew
Every bit as fraught as its title, Linda Spalding's Who Named the Knife is a glassine web of Didionesque passive sentences, re-creating a crime in Hawaii in 1978.
Metro Silicon Valley |
Richard von Busack |
12-06-2007 |
Nonfiction
You Are No Ladynew
Donald McCaig has taken on the task of channeling Margaret Mitchell's world by writing a $4.5 million sequel to Gone With the Wind. Spoiler alert! The North still wins.
Style Weekly |
Valley Haggard |
12-06-2007 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
Talk To Hernew
LaShonda Barnett has written a treasure trove of raw emotion from some of jazz and soul's greatest black scribes so bare in nature that it can pack a reality shock to devotees.
Orlando Weekly |
Justin Strout |
12-06-2007 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
The Austen Industrynew
Books like A Flaw in the Blood build on Pride and Prejudice author's legacy.
Illinois Times |
Jacqueline Jackson |
12-06-2007 |
Fiction
Alex Ross Brings the Noisenew
Ross travels from the golden age of Strauss, Mahler and Wagner, through the mid-century struggles of composers -- American, European, black and white, classical, jazz and pretty much everything else.
Montreal Mirror |
Juliet Waters |
12-04-2007 |
Nonfiction
Sharply Drawn Journalismnew
Cumulus Press combines reportage with comics to take a look at the mining industry.
Montreal Mirror |
Christopher Hazou |
12-03-2007 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
Investigating an Imaginary Crisisnew
Stephanie Mencimer has written a bracing narrative of who, how, and why "tort reform" became law in Texas and elsewhere.
The Texas Observer |
Suzanne Batchelor |
12-03-2007 |
Nonfiction
Endpapersnew
What's new in books? Coward in letters and Borat in the U.S. and A.; plus a latke on the run, Cleopatra's nose, and the conscience of a liberal.
The Memphis Flyer |
Staff |
11-30-2007 |
Books
Louise Lambrecht on 'A Sackful of Quarters'new
Listening to Lambrecht talk about her full-bodied short stories is nearly as good as watching the narrative somersault off the pages.
Shepherd Express |
Yolanda D. White |
11-30-2007 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
Tags: A Sackful of Quarters, L.M. Favier
Comic Proportionsnew
Justice League is a fun throwback to the good old days while Marvel Zombies gives us another chapter of our favorite flesh-eating monstrosities.
Creative Loafing (Charlotte) |
Carlton Hargro |
11-30-2007 |
Fiction
Jocks on Trialnew
Until Proven Innocent is a seething indictment of the individuals and institutions in Durham, North Carolina that conspired to put three demonstrably innocent lacrosse players in jail for 30 years.
NOW Magazine |
Howard Goldenthal |
11-30-2007 |
Nonfiction
Goodbye Guiltnew
In The Worst Intentions, Italian first novelist Alessandro Piperno – with excellent assistance from his translator, Ann Goldstein – gives us a vivid, and not so pretty, picture of the post-Holocaust Italian Jewish community.
NOW Magazine |
Susan G. Cole |
11-30-2007 |
Fiction
