AltWeeklies Wire
'The Bone Sharps': A Study of Conflictnew
Based on the true story of Charles Sternberg, the visionary fossil collector who found his El Dorado among the Drumheller hoodoos, The Bone Sharps is both a historical novel, rich in period detail, and a poignant meditation on dreams.
The Georgia Straight |
Alexander Varty |
11-02-2007 |
Nonfiction
Don't Be a Wussnew
Howard Dully never wimps out. The eloquent, non-self-pitying narrator of this fascinating, disturbing memoir is one of the youngest lobotomy recipients on record.
The Georgia Straight |
Patty Jones |
11-02-2007 |
Nonfiction
Maude Barlow on the Problem With Canada's Waternew
The author and activist argues that Canada's water may become an increasingly scarce resource in Blue Covenant.
Montreal Mirror |
Christopher Hazou |
11-02-2007 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
'McSweeney's 24': Gorgeous, As Alwaysnew
One half of the new McSweeney's consists entirely of a tribute to the postmodern master of short fiction, the late, great Donald Barthelme, with recollections by friends, colleagues, and admirers such as George Saunders, Ann Beattie, Robert Coover, and Lawrence Weschler.
The Portland Mercury |
Chas Bowie |
11-01-2007 |
Fiction
Jeanne M. Leiby Debuts with her Childhood Detroitnew
One thing Downriver, the debut short story collection by Jeanne M. Leiby, will certainly not make you want to do is to move south of Detroit, the setting of most of her stories.
Grad Students Challenge Intelligent Designnew
Barbara Shaw and other graduate students are calling on the Library of Congress to re-classify intelligent design books into sections other than the science section.
The Portland Mercury |
Amy J. Ruiz |
11-01-2007 |
Books
Tags: design, intelligent
'The Sabotage Cafe': A Falling-Down Lifenew
This debut novel by New York's Joshua Furst, which is insider enough to name-check Cometbus, is probably the best book about the agony of being a gutter punk.
Metro Silicon Valley |
Richard von Busack |
11-01-2007 |
Fiction
James Frey, Julia Allison, & Other Writers I'd Like to Fucknew
Writers are notorious for being sexy and fuckable -- here are a few WILFs on my list.
New York Press |
Kelly Kreth |
11-01-2007 |
Books
Standing Against Google's Book Projectnew
In his short polemic, Jeanneney, president of France's Bibliotheque nationale, expresses a wide range of European concerns about Google's initiative to digitize the world's printed heritage.
Metro Silicon Valley |
Michael S. Gant |
11-01-2007 |
Nonfiction
Vijay Vaitheeswaran on the Car of the Futurenew
In Zoom, Vaitheeswaran and Iain Carson argue that the solution is to clean cars up, not scrap them, and use technological innovation to end Detroit's steel grip on U.S. transportation policy.
San Antonio Current |
Elaine Wolff |
10-31-2007 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
Dr. Oliver Sacks on 'Music Brain'new
He studies the innate ties between music and the mind, and his findings underpin the ways people really could, say, be "born to rock" -- or, at the very least, that they could develop a psychological need to rock at some point in their lives.
SF Weekly |
Jennifer Maerz |
10-31-2007 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
'The Black Lizard Big Book of Pulps' Packs the Big Gunsnew
No false advertising here -- The Big Book is big, roughly the size of the San Francisco yellow pages, and it offers up nothing but the purest in pulp mystery fiction.
San Francisco Bay Guardian |
John Marr |
10-31-2007 |
Fiction
Poems From Buchenwald Illuminate a Living Hellnew
Presented here in more than 50 bone-shaking adaptations by poet Fanny Howe, the devastating early works by sisters Henia and Ilona Karmel, survivors of the German concentration camp Buchenwald, are so harrowing I could read only a few at a time.
San Francisco Bay Guardian |
Ari Messer |
10-31-2007 |
Poetry
Anne Elizabeth Moore Charts an 'Unmarketable' Pathnew
Her latest book is a terrific, jarring and informed account of underground culture's infiltration by the corporate world.
Chicago Newcity |
Tom Lynch |
10-31-2007 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
Anne Enright's 'Buried Memories' is Bleak and Sexualnew
The Irish wake has become such a familiar trope in films and popular culture it takes a fiercely unsentimental novel like Anne Enright's The Gathering, recent winner of the prestigious Man Booker Prize, to club the blarney out of it.
Weekly Alibi |
John Freeman |
10-30-2007 |
Fiction
