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Yo, Adriannew
A conversation with graphic novelist Adrian Tomine.
Sacramento News & Review |
Jonathan Kiefer |
10-09-2007 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Adrian Tomine, Shortcomings
Blaine Taylor's Bunker Mentalitynew
As Ken Burns' latest monolith airs on PBS, a Maryland writer shows human side of different front.
Baltimore City Paper |
John Barry |
10-09-2007 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
'Naked on the Internet' Looks at Risks and Restrictions of the Internet's Pornographic Gazenew
Though the title implies some To Catch a Predator moralizing, what's found inside is just the opposite: a guide for women considering breaking into sex blogging or other online sex specialties.
Baltimore City Paper |
Raymond Cummings |
10-09-2007 |
Nonfiction
The Last Chapter on Wonder Woman And An Interesting Mysterynew
Wonder Woman goes out with a bang while Omega The Unknown will leave you scratching your head.
Creative Loafing (Charlotte) |
Carlton Hargro |
10-05-2007 |
Fiction
Journalism in the Twilight Zonenew
In Off the Record, Norman Pearlstine tells his version of the leak-and-smear campaign to out CIA covert agent Valerie Plame, while looking at the current problems with Washington journalism.
The Texas Observer |
Myra Macpherson |
10-05-2007 |
Nonfiction
'Convictions' is a Three-Day Successnew
When I first heard about the winner of the 3-Day Novel Writing Contest, in which contestants write a novel over Labor Day weekend, I assumed the output would be rushed, disorganized and unsatisfying, but this newest 3-Day winner is an emotionally powerful book and an intense read despite its mere 111 pages.
NOW Magazine |
David Silverberg |
10-05-2007 |
Fiction
'Head Trip' Explores the Science of Sleepnew
Warren's book charts his adventures in Montreal sleep labs, Hawaiian lucid dreaming workshops, Scottish meditation retreats, London and New York hypnotherapy sessions and Toronto neurofeedback labs.
Montreal Mirror |
Juliet Waters |
10-05-2007 |
Nonfiction
Stylized Simplicitynew
Jackson, Miss. painter Miriam Weems' has a technique that is simple and direct, with bold swatches of paint applied in rapid daubs and broad, bright sweeps of color.
Jackson Free Press |
Elise Smith |
10-04-2007 |
Nonfiction
'The Big Con' Examines the GOP's Crackpot E-Con 101new
Alan Greenspan's The Age of Turbulence may have been getting all the publishing headlines lately, but Jonathan Chait's book is actually more noteworthy in its analysis of the Republican economic revolution of the last three decades.
Port Folio Weekly |
Jim Newsom |
10-04-2007 |
Nonfiction
David Sedaris Is Taking Notesnew
While we're still months away from pulling out our Christmas tree, David Sedaris is sitting at his home in Paris, wrapping presents. The popular humorist will be stateside for a month as he tours the country with nightly readings of fresh material with his notoriously nasal, yet powdered delivery.
Charleston City Paper |
Greg Hambrick |
10-03-2007 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
Tags: David Sedaris, NPR
In 'Foreskin's Lament,' God is a Four-Letter Wordnew
Auslander's new memoir reveals both the paranoia of both the devout and those desperately trying not to believe.
Willamette Week |
Kelly Clarke |
10-03-2007 |
Nonfiction
The Big Read Programs Wants You to Read One Booknew
According to a report entitled Reading at Risk: A Survey of Literary Reading in America, issued by the National Endowment for the Arts, reading in America -- literary reading, in the form of novels, short stories, poetry, and plays -- is declining dramatically.
The Memphis Flyer |
Leonard Gill |
10-02-2007 |
Books
Alice Walker Opens Children's Eyes to Realities of Warnew
Kids and grownups everywhere are lucky Harper Collins was willing to print Why War is Never a Good Idea's thought-provoking eloquence.
Weekly Alibi |
Marisa Demarco |
10-02-2007 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
Miss Cleo, This Time for Realnew
The album's eight tracks find Mis Cleo in a far different mood than America might anticipate. She's left the tarot cards and psychic-speak behind in favor of straight-to-the-gut protest poetry, as fierce and passionate as anything released by June Jordan or Nikki Giovanni.
New Times Broward-Palm Beach |
Jonathan Cunningham |
10-02-2007 |
Poetry
CAConrad Draws Us in to His Kafka-esque Dream Statenew
Calling CAConrad "in your face" doesn't quite do it -- if the Philadelphia poet had his way, he'd be down your throat, stuck in your gut and up your ass.
Philadelphia City Paper |
A.D. Amorosi |
10-02-2007 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
Tags: CAConrad, The Frank Poems
