AltWeeklies Wire
Stealing Beautynew
Gowdy takes empathy to the max in her deeply unsettling new novel by taking us inside the head of a developing pedophile.
NOW Magazine |
Susan G. Cole |
03-05-2007 |
Fiction
Tags: Barbara Gowdy, Helpless
Big Hairy Dealnew
American Hair Metal allows us to visually recall a movement and aesthetic that dominated the Western world, then disappeared virtually overnight -- it's amazing that something so bizarre, self-indulgent and wankerish can be so beautiful.
NOW Magazine |
Elizabeth Bromstein |
03-05-2007 |
Nonfiction
Tags: American Hair Metal, Steven Blush
Straight From Hellnew
Philly's most insane author and publisher looks like a librarian.
Philadelphia Weekly |
Steven Wells |
03-05-2007 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
Bankruptcy Won't Hurt Eggers's Fundraisingnew
Scores of independent publishing houses have been hurt by the bankruptcy of the corporation that owns Publishers Group West, including McSweeney's, which publishes Eggers's new book, the proceeds from which are to go to charity.
Portland Phoenix |
Christopher Gray |
03-02-2007 |
Books
Tags: Dave Eggers, What is the What
Mum on the Mindnew
Toibin captures exquisite Irish misery in his new collection of shorts.
Montreal Mirror |
Juliet Waters |
03-02-2007 |
Fiction
Tags: Colm Toibin, Mothers and Sons
Everybody Is All-Americannew
Andersen hasn't created something new in regard to the American historical novel, but he has presented it in a new (gas)light.
Washington City Paper |
Allen Barra |
03-02-2007 |
Fiction
Tags: Heyday, Kurt Andersen
Battlegroundsnew
The U.S. of Vertigo Comics' new graphic novel is a tattered remnant of its former self, but it stubbornly, even savagely, clings to the trappings of the culture we have now.
Los Angeles CityBeat |
Natalie Nichols |
03-02-2007 |
Fiction
Not Clowning Aroundnew
Monica Drake's debut novel isn't baloney.
Eugene Weekly |
Molly Templeton |
03-01-2007 |
Fiction
Tags: Clown Girl, Monica Drake
French Lessons: Jean-Claude Izzo's Marseille’s Trilogynew
With the awaited English translation of Solea, fans can finally get their working-class sybarite fix with Montale.
Port Folio Weekly |
Rick Skwiot |
03-01-2007 |
Fiction
New Word Ordernew
Author Sylvia Clute addresses questions of law, benevolent government and George Washington in the kitchen.
Style Weekly |
Valley Haggard |
03-01-2007 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
Sorrow Floatsnew
Grief -- and a pervasive sense of doom -- drives this book.
Boston Phoenix |
Nina MacLaughlin |
03-01-2007 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
Sex and Religion, Faith and Skepticismnew
Elif Shafak is part of a new generation of Turks who are taking the novel -- a form which came to them from the West -- and using it to reimagine their society from within.
Weekly Alibi |
John Freeman |
02-27-2007 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
Bill McKibben's Americanew
Unless you sought out something specifically to avoid it, whatever you're consuming right now probably came from somewhere pretty far away -- McKibben says this is what's wrong with America.
LEO Weekly |
Stephen George |
02-27-2007 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Bill McKibben, Deep Economy
Woman On the Vergenew
A conversation with poet Vievee Francis.
Metro Times |
Peter Markus |
02-27-2007 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Blue-Tail Fly, Vievee Francis
Split in Twainnew
Jon Clinch's tale of Huck Finn's father is dense, lyrical and mildly archaic.
Philadelphia City Paper |
Justin Bauer |
02-27-2007 |
Fiction
Tags: Finn, Jon Clinch
