AltWeeklies Wire
Seven False Starts About the Death of David Foster Wallacenew
By now you may have heard. The most influential and innovative fiction stylist of his generation, the smartest, funniest, strangest, most endearing and (let's just say it) the greatest writer under 50 in America, killed himself at his Claremont home on Sept. 12.
Los Angeles CityBeat |
Cornel Bonca |
12-05-2008 |
Books
Pulp Mag Reprints Find an Audience ... Againnew
A publisher quaintly called Nostalgia Ventures offers us a peek into the national fantasies of the last time America was broke, whipped, and paranoid all at once.
Los Angeles CityBeat |
Ron Garmon |
09-26-2008 |
Books
Joseph Stiglitz on the Economic Crisis, War and the Electionnew
"I think that you could argue it may in fact be the war that broke the camel's back," Stiglitz says.
Los Angeles CityBeat |
Ron Garmon |
09-26-2008 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
The God Who Capped Himself: Thomas M. Disch, 1940-2008new
In a literary culture that supposedly cherishes irony, the passing of such a master ironist has been remarkably little noted. That Disch likely took his life on July 4th (his body was discovered July 5) probably wasn't meant as tribute to our subtle wits either.
Los Angeles CityBeat |
Ron Garmon |
08-01-2008 |
Books
B.S. Johnson's 'The Unfortunates' is Resurrectednew
In his unique 1969 narrative The Unfortunates (New Directions) finally published in May for the first time in the United States, Johnson pursued the question of how creating a novel that would not be bound by conventions might necessitate a book that would not even be bound between covers.
Los Angeles CityBeat |
Anthony Miller |
07-07-2008 |
Fiction
Michael Chabon Fills in the Blank Spacesnew
Maps and Legends, Chabon's first essay collection, unearths some of the author's source texts and offers his exuberant ruminations on the role of the writer as protector and defender of artistic ancestors.
Los Angeles CityBeat |
Anthony Miller |
05-12-2008 |
Nonfiction
3rd Degree: Jacob Weisbergnew
The journalist on the "tragedy" of Bush, the passing of Buckley, and watching from the internet.
Los Angeles CityBeat |
Steve Appleford |
03-14-2008 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
Truth and 'Consequences'new
Book publishers are still so hooked on the cash dreams of true confessions, they'll risk repeated bouts of fake-memoir scandal to give the public what it wants. Last week we learned that half-white/half-Native American author Margaret B. Jones's acclaimed new Love and Consequences, her memoir of gangsta life as a South Central L.A. foster child, was totally made up.
Los Angeles CityBeat |
Natalie Nichols |
03-14-2008 |
Books
All You Need is 'Love'new
Jonathan Gould's adept Beatles book is a multifaceted delight.
Los Angeles CityBeat |
Chris Morris |
01-11-2008 |
Nonfiction
Judith Freeman Channels Chandlernew
Freeman's nonbiography uses real estate as a Ouija board.
Los Angeles CityBeat |
Andy Klein |
11-19-2007 |
Fiction
A Rapper's Paradisenew
Hip-hop's early days return in vivid words and pictures in Born in the Bronx.
Los Angeles CityBeat |
Donnell Alexander |
11-19-2007 |
Nonfiction
Typing in Neonnew
One author's determination to publish and be damned (maybe for eternity).
Los Angeles CityBeat |
Mick Farren |
11-19-2007 |
Books
Writer and Game Show Winner Takes on Ken Jennings’s 'Brainiac'new
Jennings's writing is clever, self-effacing, even hip, and the book is rich with pop cultural, academic, and historical trivia.
Los Angeles CityBeat |
Greg Katz |
11-19-2007 |
Nonfiction
Long and 'Short'new
In his first book-length story, Adrian Tomine explores identity, truthfulness, and maturity.
Los Angeles CityBeat |
Natalie Nichols |
11-16-2007 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Adrian Tomine, Shortcomings
The Satirical Intellectualnew
Alexander Theroux on the paradoxes of love and the importance of plenitude and redemption.
Los Angeles CityBeat |
Anthony Miller |
11-16-2007 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Alexander Theroux
