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All Is Forgotten, Nothing is Lostnew
Lan Samantha Chang’s new book a nod to anyone tortured by their own aspirations.
San Antonio Current |
Adam Coronado |
02-14-2011 |
Fiction
After 20 years, Atlanta's Kevin Young Publishes the Epic Ardencynew
Young's book of poems explores America through the voices of a slave ship Amistad's rebels.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Wyatt Williams |
02-14-2011 |
Books
Reality Bites Backnew
Jennifer Pozner delivers demanding case for deeper TV viewing.
San Antonio Current |
Greg Harman |
02-11-2011 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Reality TV, Jennifer Pozner
I did Sookie Stackhousenew
A book snob reveals her whirlwind affair with America's favorite telepathic waitress.
Boston Phoenix |
Eugenia Williamson |
02-10-2011 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
20 Astoundingly Bad Romance Novel Coversnew
Moaning, groaning, and oiled-hunk-boning with Uncle Walter & Co.
Boston Phoenix |
Uncle Walter and the Wife |
02-10-2011 |
Books
Tags: Romance Novels
Tim Wu, Historian of Information Empiresnew
To say that Tim Wu has written a history of the information age is sort of like saying that Howard Zinn wrote a history of the United States. Wu is a young scholar but the first line of his obituary is already written: a few years back he coined the term "Net neutrality," then got the FCC to embrace
Boston Phoenix |
Carly Carioli |
02-08-2011 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
How to Land the Lead in Warhol's Only Playnew
Lick Me: How I Became Cherry Vanilla, "takes us on a journey from the birth of rock to the explosion of punk . . . with memorable detours through the sexual revolution, the women's liberation movement, and the Theater of the Ridiculous."
Pittsburgh City Paper |
Cherry Vanilla |
02-01-2011 |
Excerpts
The House of Ackermannew
Forrest J. Ackerman was probably the worst’s foremost collector of fantasy film memorabilia, as well as one of its most passionate proponents.
YES! Weekly |
Mark Burger |
01-21-2011 |
Books
What Happened After MLK Died?new
Rebecca Burns examines the week following Martin Luther King Jr.'s assassination in her new book, Burial for a King.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Wyatt Williams |
01-17-2011 |
Books
Tags: Burial for a King
Haunted Helenanew
Story of a Texas ghost town. With ghosts.
San Antonio Current |
Roberto Ontiveros |
01-14-2011 |
Nonfiction
Tags: Barry Harrin, Helena Texas
Vladimir Rodzianko -- The Real Ghost Of Rasputinnew
I never was too clear from Vladimir’s many and graphic memories of his time with Makarova of the exact gossip of who was doing what to whom. But Rodzianko talked with a certain enthusiasm about Nureyev’s famed collection of cock rings and his myriad of sexual peccadilloes. The rumors of which were mostly true, Rodzianko assured me.
Random Lengths News |
Lionel Rolfe |
01-14-2011 |
Original Work
The Three-Headed Salingernew
Review of J.D. Salinger: A Life.
San Antonio Current |
Raymond Cummings |
01-14-2011 |
Nonfiction
New Literary Journal Bull Spec Celebrates First Anniversarynew
Bull Spec is a magazine of "speculative fiction," a catchall term for sci-fi, horror, epic fantasy, superheroes, sword-and-sorcery and alternate history. There's nothing quite like it.
INDY Week |
Brian Howe |
01-10-2011 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Bull Spec
The Possibilities of William S. Burroughsnew
Godfather of Beat: from Pharr pot field to talking assholes.
San Antonio Current |
Roberto Ontiveros |
01-07-2011 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
Tags: William S. Burroughs, Naked Lunch
Heather Havrilesky Discusses New Memoir and Working for Rupert Murdochnew
Havrilesky defends against mass-produced media meteors by hurling her own fine-tuned bits of sarcasm and "grumpy" insights into the mix, and there's no denying she's been successful.
INDY Week |
Lindsay Parker |
01-06-2011 |
Nonfiction
