AltWeeklies Wire
New Yorker Writer Ian Frazier's Travels in Siberianew
At nearly 500 pages long, Frazier's Siberia rambles through ancient history and contemporary anecdote, is full of both affection and frustration, and has a deliberately inconclusive ending. It seems appropriate.
INDY Week |
Adam Sobsey |
11-05-2010 |
Nonfiction
Tags: Ian Frazier
The Misadventures of Ari Mendelsohnnew
This is the first chapter from the picaresque novel by noted author and journalist Lionel Rolfe, which recounts the sexual and political travails of the irascible, blacklisted title character, a reporter still harboring his besieged idealistic belief in humanity's innate goodness and America's dubious potential for good amid a reality of avarice, pragmatism, cynicism, and materialism.
Random Lengths News |
Lionel Rolfe |
11-04-2010 |
Excerpts
Flying Solonew
Grant Lawrence takes us on Adventures in Solitude.
Monday Magazine |
Amanda Farrell-Low |
10-29-2010 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Desolation Sound, Grant Lawrence
Sweet, Sweet Saccharinnew
Empty Pleasures views 20th-century America through the progress of its sweeteners.
INDY Week |
Adam Sobsey |
10-27-2010 |
Nonfiction
Tags: Empty Pleasures
Mystery, Comedy and a Yellow Humveenew
Author Laura DiSilverio gets good reviews for her Colorado Springs-centric handling of Swift Justice.
Colorado Springs Independent |
Claire Swinford |
10-26-2010 |
Books
Tags: Swift Justice
Local Poet Jeffery Beam's Latest Volume, Gospel Earthnew
Everything you are not noticing in the natural world has been captured in this book.
INDY Week |
Jaimee Hills |
10-25-2010 |
Nonfiction
Tags: Gospel Earth
Walking in Black Women's Footstepsnew
Two important new histories of the Civil Rights movement.
INDY Week |
Adam Sobsey |
10-25-2010 |
Nonfiction
Mark Twain's Last Stuntnew
Suppressed for one hundred years, Autobiography of Mark Twain has become one of UC Berkeley's biggest literary events of all time.
East Bay Express |
David Downs |
10-20-2010 |
Books
Chained to the Mast With Jim Nisbetnew
The local noir novelist is a cult favorite in Europe.
East Bay Express |
Anneli Rufus |
10-14-2010 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Jim Nisbet
Chuck Klosterman's Unusual Place in the Literary Worldnew
Chuck Klosterman occupies an unusual place in the literary world. His popular essays are neither purely journalistic nor academic nor critical.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Wyatt Williams |
10-12-2010 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Chuck Klosterman
David Sedaris Does Fables His Waynew
Sedaris’ take on beasts of burden in 'Squirrel Seeks Chipmunk: A Modest Bestiary' proves hilarious.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Curt Holman |
10-08-2010 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
Tags: David Sedaris
Archiving Anarchy in the U.K.new
Between 1988 and 1990, Jon Savage spoke extensively to the Sex Pistols, the late Malcolm McLaren, the late Joe Strummer, Chrissie Hynde, Siouxsie Sioux, and many others in the British punk scene. The England's Dreaming Tapes features full interviews with those who were there.
Charleston City Paper |
T. Ballard Lesemann |
10-07-2010 |
Nonfiction
The Poetic Radiance of Elizabeth Alexandernew
An interview with poet Elizabeth Alexander, who is also a playwright, essayist, teacher, and current chair of the African American Studies Department at Yale.
San Antonio Current |
Gregg Barrios |
10-07-2010 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Poetry, Elizabeth Alexander
The Fall of American Talibannew
Markos Moulitsas fails to woo liberals with his latest screed.
East Bay Express |
Rachel Swan |
09-29-2010 |
Nonfiction
Emma Donoghue Hits Her Stride With Roomnew
In her research for Room, Donoghue says she was intrigued by the way people tend to "personalize" kidnapping cases they read about or see in the news.
Tags: Emma Donaghue
