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Bagel King Noah Alper Serves Memories and Advice in a New Booknew
Two decades before he founded the bagel company that he would eventually sell for $100 million, Noah Alper was locked up in a mental hospital. Shocked to find their student son in a mania exacerbated by drugs, lack of sleep and the chaos of the Vietnam years, his parents had committed him.
East Bay Express |
Anneli Rufus |
12-09-2009 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
Wal-Mart Lowers the Guillotine on Authors and Independent Bookstoresnew
The devaluation of work is a brutal injustice to the Kingsolvers and the Grishams and the Pattersons (though, for the record, the latter two aren't exactly wading in the same talent pool as Kingsolver). Even -- and I cannot believe I am going to say this -- even Dan Brown and his formulaic prose deserve better than $8.99 on new releases.
San Diego CityBeat |
Aaryn Belfer |
10-28-2009 |
Books
Mystery Man: Author Tony Hillerman's Legacy Lives Onnew
Hillerman began his career as a journalist for The Santa Fe New Mexican and went on to author more than 30 books, most of which were mystery novels set in New Mexico -- more specifically, Navajo lands. Hillerman died last October at the age of 83.
Santa Fe Reporter |
Charlotte Jusinski |
09-17-2009 |
Books
Nazi Sympathizer David Irving Speaks, Kicks Us Outnew
When a cult figure of the neo-Nazi movement comes to this town, it is not so hard to track him down. We found him, there was a minor disruption and we got kicked out of the talk. Here's how it went down.
Boise Weekly |
Nathaniel Hoffman |
07-29-2009 |
Media
Azar Nafisi Meets Her Strangernew
Nafisi looks backward down the road of her life with an enormous set of binoculars, and attempts to zoom in on everything there — four generations of a family, over the course of a century, in a culturally and politically fluxing country — with great candidness, and generous attention to detail.
Boston Phoenix |
Caitlin E. Curran |
01-22-2009 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
Laurell K. Hamilton, the Mistress of Horrornew
Nobody writes vampire novels the way the St. Louis author does -- and yes, there's lots of sex.
Riverfront Times |
Aimee Levitt |
11-21-2008 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
Want to Sell a Book? Make a Movie.new
Oregon's own Powell's is teaching New York a new trick. It's called Out Of the Book, and it's a series of bite-sized films about ... what else? Books and the quirky people who write them.
Willamette Week |
John Minervini |
09-17-2008 |
Books
Audioshave: What's Lost in the Abridgmentnew
Nobody really likes abridgments of audiobooks. The listeners who don't mind them are generally unaware of how much they're missing.
The Village Voice |
Lawrence Block |
01-03-2005 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
