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Mike Jones Shares His 'Art'new

It's barely been six months since this male escort from Denver brought one of the nation's most powerful evangelicals to his knees for the last time, and already the book version is about to fly off the shelves into the eager, upturned sweaty palms of the masses.

Colorado Springs Independent | Cara DeGette | 05-25-2007 | Nonfiction

Tags: Haggard, Sex, Mike Jones, I Had to Say Something: The Art of Ted Haggard's Fall

'Kinfolks': Missing Personsnew

This is a book in which the destination is more interesting than the journey -- Alther struggles to find a way to make the famous-writer's-memoir format mesh with the exceedingly complex web of historical clues she's weaving.

Seven Days | Margot Harrison | 05-25-2007 | Nonfiction

Tags: Kinfolks: Falling Off the Family Tree, Lisa Alther

Spider Robinson: Collaboration Stationnew

He tends to surround himself with gifted minds to make his fiction more realistic.

The Georgia Straight | Alexander Varty | 05-25-2007 | Author Profiles & Interviews

Tags: Spider Robinson, Variable Star

'New Moon' Shinesnew

Fusing the politics of foreign aid and debt with elements of magic realism, Hopkinson locates the narrator in a nation undergoing its own reconciliation with the past.

NOW Magazine | Emma McKenna | 05-25-2007 | Fiction

Tags: Nalo Hopkinson, The New Moon's Arms

'Falling Man': Return to 9/11new

No piece of fiction has come closer to recreating the atmosphere of that day and the days shortly thereafter.

Sacramento News & Review | John Freeman | 05-25-2007 | Fiction

Tags: Don DeLillo, Falling Man

Fat Headnew

A former Mr. Universe says that the key to weight loss is happiness and identifying core desires.

Tucson Weekly | Irene Messina | 05-24-2007 | Author Profiles & Interviews

Tags: Mind Over Body: The Key to Lasting Weight Loss Is All in Your Head, Nordine Zouareg

Under the Munro Influencenew

Away From Her is inspirational, though not everyone gets it right.

Montreal Mirror | Juliet Waters | 05-24-2007 | Fiction

Tags: Alice Munro, Away from Her

3rd Degree: Michael L. Weinsteinnew

The former White House counsel on dominionists in the military and the threat to our Constitution.

Los Angeles CityBeat | Dean Kuipers | 05-24-2007 | Author Profiles & Interviews

Tags: Mikey Weinstein, With God on Our Side

Elmore Leonard's Latestnew

America's coolest author on Honey's Room.

Shepherd Express | Rex Rutkowski | 05-24-2007 | Author Profiles & Interviews

Tags: Elmore Leonard, Up in Honey's Room

'Writing While Arab'new

The Radius of Arab American Writers (RAWI), with a membership of 215 poets, fiction writers, playwrights, bloggers, filmmakers and others, holds its conference in Dearborn, Mich.

Metro Times | Lolita Hernandez | 05-22-2007 | Books