AltWeeklies Wire
Weathercraft / Wilsonnew
Dan Clowes' Wilson and Jim Woodring's Weathercraft provide two different takes on the state of the graphic novel.
North Coast Journal |
Jay Aubrey-Herzog |
09-23-2010 |
Fiction
Extinction On Demand?new
Will print-on-demand technology save publishing or deliver its final death blow?
Baltimore City Paper |
Rachel Monroe |
09-20-2010 |
Books
Tags: POD
Nicholas Sparks Discusses the Craftnew
Since the publication of The Notebook in 1996, New Bern's Nicholas Sparks has become the definition of a blockbuster writer with his tales of tragic lovers set against the Carolina coast.
INDY Week |
Zack Smith |
09-20-2010 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Nicholas Sparks
William Gibson Discusses Memory, Twitter and His Latest Novelnew
Gibson, whose early works -- especially his 1984 debut, Neuromancer -- epitomized cyberpunk literature, is a writer who has seen his visions become unremarkable reality.
INDY Week |
Gerry Canavan |
09-20-2010 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
Tags: William Gibson
Bourdain Spills the Beansnew
Anthony Bourdain talks about other celebrity chefs and his current projects.
NOW Magazine |
Steven Davey |
09-16-2010 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
Algonquin Books' 25th edition of New Stories From the Southnew
Are guest editor Amy Hempel and series editor Kathy Pories pointing us to a change in Southern literature?
Tags: Amy Hempel
Rosanne Cash keeps composure, discusses new memoirnew
Cash discusses her feelings about the film Walk the Line, her early musical influences and having Morrissey as an in-law.
Tags: Rosanne Cash
Charting the Emergence of Canada's Religious Rightnew
Marci McDonald's recent book, The Armageddon Factor: The Rise of Christian Nationalism in Canada, documents the emergence of Canada's religious right, distinct from the States-side version despite links.
VUE Weekly |
Mary Christa O'Keefe |
08-24-2010 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
School Is Murdernew
So how does a reviewer who was a public-school teacher review a book by a novelist who was a public-school principal, and whose work is touted by other public-school folks she knows? Carefully? With correct grammar?...
Tucson Weekly |
Christine Wald-Hopkins |
08-23-2010 |
Unclassified
Tags: Gerry Hernbrode
Tar Heel poets write about cookingnew
In The Sound of Poets Cooking, a combined cookbook and poetry anthology, more than 60 poets ladle out enticing recipes and crafted verse, woven thematically together.
Tags: Richard Krawiec
Chapel Hill transplant Rosecrans Baldwin publishes his debut novelnew
You Lost Me There has received ample advance praise, "so now I'm in a daily cycle of panic attacks and nervous anticipation," Baldwin says, laughing.
INDY Week |
Adam Sobsey |
08-16-2010 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Rosecrans Baldwin
Om My Gurunew
Two authors trace the roots of yoga in the West.
Weekly Alibi |
Patricia Sauthoff |
08-09-2010 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Yoga, Stefanie Syman
Getting the Word Outnew
Authors take the initiative and choose to publish themselves
Palo Alto Weekly |
Carol Blitzer and Karla Kane |
08-09-2010 |
Books
Tags: Self Publishing
War Is Still Hellnew
Sebastian Junger’s latest journalist’s-eye-view of combat, War, is gritty and honest.
Inland Empire Weekly |
Nancy Powell |
08-06-2010 |
Nonfiction
Tags: Sebastian Junger
Gary Shteyngart Writes Another Smelly Booknew
Gary Shteyngart's 'Super Sad True Love Story' tries to be many things. But primarily, it's the finest piece of anti-iPhone propaganda ever written, a cautionary tale full of distracted drones unwilling to tear themselves away from their little glowing screens long enough to make eye contact, let alone an actual lasting connection, with another human being.
The Village Voice |
Rob Harvilla |
08-04-2010 |
Fiction
Tags: Gary Shteyngart
