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Wayward Son Carries Onnew
Tampa-born journalist paints an unflattering but entertaining portrait of Florida in Finding Florida: The True History of the Sunshine State
Orlando Weekly |
Mark I. Pinsky |
03-06-2013 |
Nonfiction
Tags: T.D. Allman
'Because I Like Them'new
A Boulder woman's son inspired a book on boys who wear dresses and challenge gender norms.
Boulder Weekly |
Stephanie Riesco |
03-01-2013 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
Cory Doctorow on the teen imagination, paranoia and the late Aaron Swartznew
"It's very hard to adequately understand, in advance, the cost of privacy disclosures and of privacy breaches. Because privacy and its consequences are separated by a lot of time and space."
Lee on Literature: One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nestnew
How Ken Kesey's book, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, helped to significantly change public opinion about the value of state mental institutions.
Santa Fe Reporter |
Lee Miller |
02-08-2013 |
Books
Tags: Ken Kesey
A Troubling Portrait of Scientologynew
In his new book, Going Clear: Scientology, Hollywood, and the Prison of Belief, Austin-based journalist Lawrence Wright weaves tales of abuse with stories from numerous ex-members of the Church of Scientology.
San Antonio Current |
Michael Barajas |
02-07-2013 |
Books
Tags: Lawrence Wright
Phyl Van Ammers on the The Misadventures of Ari Mendelsohnnew
Phyl Van Ammers recently talked to Lionel Rolfe, the author whose most recent book is, “The Misadventures of Ari Mendelsohn: A Mostly True Memoir of California Journalism.” It is available on Amazon, both in paper and on Kindle. He will be doing a signing at Skylight Bookstore at 1818 N. Vermont Ave. in the Los Feliz area of Los Angeles March 30 at 5 p.m.
Random Lengths News |
Lionel Rolfe |
01-25-2013 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
Will Eisner's The Plotnew
The father of the graphic novel debunks history's most notorious anti-Semitic tract
Orlando Weekly |
Seth Kubersky |
01-16-2013 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Will Eisner
This is your brain on the Internetnew
Are digital distractions destroying critical thinking?
Boulder Weekly |
Michael Callahan |
01-12-2013 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
Cross Purposesnew
Nancy Wood's 'The Soledad Crucifixion' gets hung up on poetic momentum
Tucson Weekly |
Jarret Keene |
01-10-2013 |
Books
Irving Fink on love, politics and agingnew
Fink's been writing poetry since the '40s, but only now, 92 years into a life spent defending civil liberties as a "real-life Atticus Finch," is he publishing his work.
Craigslist Poetry: Pirate Fairies and Churchgoersnew
The following are actual entries from the Missed Connections section of Charleston Craigslist, divided into lines and stanzas and presented without embellishment. You just can’t make this stuff up.
Charleston City Paper |
Paul Bowers |
12-18-2012 |
Poetry
Stories in Sepia Tonesnew
Ten years of research powers a compelling biography of a Western pioneer.
Tucson Weekly |
Margaret Regan |
12-13-2012 |
Nonfiction
Paucity of Plotnew
Despite strong characters, the journey in 'Hard to Have Heroes' is woefully discombobulated.
Tucson Weekly |
Bobby Carlson |
12-05-2012 |
Fiction
Used bookstores at risk: the copyright trapnew
A case that recently went before the U.S. Supreme Court could put a used bookstore out of business.
14 Books for Winter Readingnew
Fall into winter with some reading. Fourteen books to consider.
The Memphis Flyer |
Memphis Flyer Staff |
12-05-2012 |
Books
Tags: Winter Books
