AltWeeklies Wire
Mark Jenkins' Excellent Adventurenew
And so we come to Jenkins, author and former Outside columnist, who stands in the face of his clownish peers as an authentic adventurer.
Colorado Springs Independent |
Matt Martin |
11-20-2007 |
Nonfiction
Bruce Ledewitz Says Secularists Could Use a Little Religion in Their Politicsnew
The Duquesne University law professor is working on a follow-up to American Religious Democracy, tentatively titled Hallowed Secularism: A Guide for the Nonbeliever.
Pittsburgh City Paper |
Bill O'Driscoll |
11-20-2007 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
'Blood and Soil' Looks at Lands of The Lostnew
This tome mines the links between systemic population exterminations and conquest.
Baltimore City Paper |
Zak M. Salih |
11-20-2007 |
Nonfiction
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 Life of Charles Schulznew
Michaelis has produced a stunningly insightful and compulsively readable account of the life -- particularly the emotional life -- of the creator of "Peanuts," the famed comic strip about "born loser" Charlie Brown and his young friends.
Shepherd Express |
Roger Miller |
11-19-2007 |
Nonfiction
Judith Freeman Channels Chandlernew
Freeman's nonbiography uses real estate as a Ouija board.
Los Angeles CityBeat |
Andy Klein |
11-19-2007 |
Fiction
A Rapper's Paradisenew
Hip-hop's early days return in vivid words and pictures in Born in the Bronx.
Los Angeles CityBeat |
Donnell Alexander |
11-19-2007 |
Nonfiction
Typing in Neonnew
One author's determination to publish and be damned (maybe for eternity).
Los Angeles CityBeat |
Mick Farren |
11-19-2007 |
Books
Writer and Game Show Winner Takes on Ken Jennings’s 'Brainiac'new
Jennings's writing is clever, self-effacing, even hip, and the book is rich with pop cultural, academic, and historical trivia.
Los Angeles CityBeat |
Greg Katz |
11-19-2007 |
Nonfiction
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
'Praise from a Future Generation' Looks at JFK's Americanew
John Kelin reminds us how one president's murder changed the world.
Boulder Weekly |
Dale Bridges |
11-19-2007 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
A Simple Mind Run Amoknew
Greenwald identifies the victims of the Bush presidency, the harm they have suffered, and how that harm continues to be inflicted. He discusses the accomplices who have made it possible for a president with no electoral mandate to use the irrational, and now seriously diminished, support he gained from the events of 9/11 to do so much damage.
The Texas Observer |
Thomas Palaima |
11-19-2007 |
Nonfiction
Long and 'Short'new
In his first book-length story, Adrian Tomine explores identity, truthfulness, and maturity.
Los Angeles CityBeat |
Natalie Nichols |
11-16-2007 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Adrian Tomine, Shortcomings
The Satirical Intellectualnew
Alexander Theroux on the paradoxes of love and the importance of plenitude and redemption.
Los Angeles CityBeat |
Anthony Miller |
11-16-2007 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Alexander Theroux
Judith Jones Honors Her Muse, Gastereanew
The opening scene in Jones' memoir, The Tenth Muse: My Life in Food, says it all: Her mother was well into her 90s, and she had one question for her daughter: "Tell me, Judith, do you really like garlic?"
The Memphis Flyer |
Leonard Gill |
11-16-2007 |
Nonfiction
