AltWeeklies Wire
Kathryn Miller Haines Creates Winner in Rosie Winternew
Pittsburgh mystery author's Miss Winter was published in June; Haines has completed a sequel, The Winter of Her Discontent, due out next June.
Pittsburgh City Paper |
Staff |
09-25-2007 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
Danialewski Challenges Readers with Second Novelnew
Even seasoned readers might feel a twinge of confusion, frustration or panic upon first opening Only Revolutions. Each page offers either three or four patches of text, rendered in as many different fonts and type sizes; at least one patch is upside down.
Pittsburgh City Paper |
Bill O'Driscoll |
09-25-2007 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
Jennifer Worick: Seattle's Busiest Author?new
Worick has little patience for authors trying to crank out the Great American Novel; she's too busy getting published — about 20 books, by her count, over the past half-dozen years.
Seattle Weekly |
Brian Miller |
09-25-2007 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
Tales of Disintegrationnew
David Peace, selected in 1993 as one of Britain's best young novelists by Granta magazine, sets his new novel in the rubble of post-WWII Tokyo. A detective story with a difference, it shows a city that doesn't need crime to destroy it. War is enough.
Sacramento News & Review |
Kel Munger |
09-24-2007 |
Fiction
'Songs Without Words' Captures the Tolstoys' Lifenew
The book, which includes 180 of Countess Sophia Tolstoy's photos and dozens of deeply personal journal entries, tells the story of a famous family living through the tumultuous times of pre-Revolution Russia.
Shepherd Express |
Heather Zydek |
09-24-2007 |
Nonfiction
Poet Pens Subversive Detective Stories Set in Chinanew
Qiu Xiaolong's creative and personal life has long been shaped by the politics of his communist homeland. It was politics that first pushed him to write and study poetry, and later induced him to immigrate to the United States.
Riverfront Times |
Malcolm Gay |
09-24-2007 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Qiu Xiaolong, Red Mandarin Dress
America the Bullynew
Author Chalmers Johnson gives his controversial view of what our nation is really all about.
Pasadena Weekly |
Joe Piasecki |
09-24-2007 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
'Babylon by Bus': Fear and Doping in Iraqnew
Contradictory, honest, and compelling, LeMoine and Neumann offer a decidedly new vantage point on the war in Iraq.
The Texas Observer |
Stayton Bonner |
09-24-2007 |
Nonfiction
Lone Wolfnew
Hagberg has a real talent for raising the reader's expectation and then stringing him or her along to a surprising, but almost always logical conclusion.
Jackson Free Press |
James L. Dickerson |
09-21-2007 |
Fiction
'The Italian Letter' Looks at Bush Administration's Dangerous Fakerynew
When the history of this gruesome war is finally written, people will marvel at how this shoddy forgery became such an effective weapon in the Bush administration's arsenal of lies.
NOW Magazine |
Howard Goldenthal |
09-21-2007 |
Nonfiction
Reality Goes Hyper in 'Spook Country'new
Gibson recently stated in an interview that technology is the only thing driving change on our planet -- if you're happy believing that, you'll have an easy time enjoying Spook Country.
Montreal Mirror |
Juliet Waters |
09-21-2007 |
Fiction
Professor Works Out His Salvation Through NASCARnew
Here is what many nonbelievers see when they glimpse a NASCAR race on television: A bunch of billboards on wheels turning left at insane speeds, perpetrating unconscionable air and noise pollution and pointless death, and wasting an increasingly precious natural resource.
INDY Week |
Adam Sobsey |
09-20-2007 |
Nonfiction
Have Your Fall Books Yet?new
This autumn, hide inside, shun the cruel farce known as "society" and spend time with the one friend who won't ultimately betray you and leave you for dead: the printed word.
Dig Boston |
Paul McMorrow |
09-20-2007 |
Books
Nelson Peery Surveys His Tenure in the Communist Partynew
While he is forthright about his ethical struggles and political development, there is a staginess to much of the dialogue that transforms plot turns into vehicles for Peery's soul-searching.
San Francisco Bay Guardian |
Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore |
09-20-2007 |
Nonfiction
Is 'The Iran Agenda' a Theocratic Democracy?new
Reese Erlich's book discusses moronic policy, complicated politics, and hopes for the future in Iran.
San Francisco Bay Guardian |
Tim Redmond |
09-20-2007 |
Nonfiction
