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Advocating for the Final Big Chillnew
Boomsday is more bitter than his previous novels, with a deeply cynical edge that should appeal to fans of Martin Amis and Max Barry.
Willamette Week |
Kevin Allman |
04-25-2007 |
Fiction
Tags: Boomsday, Christopher Buckley
E=MC Squared -- Sweaty Feet and Allnew
Einstein: His Life and Universe delivers on the promise of being a good read -- but it's really two books.
Willamette Week |
Henry Stern |
04-25-2007 |
Nonfiction
The New Worldnew
Miranda July examines longing and transformation in a new collection of stories.
San Francisco Bay Guardian |
Amanda Davidson |
04-25-2007 |
Fiction
Murder Witnessnew
An observer in Darfur describes an unending nightmare.
San Francisco Bay Guardian |
Tom Gallagher |
04-25-2007 |
Nonfiction
Lucky Girlnew
Nell Freudenberger's journey to The Dissident.
Chicago Newcity |
John Freeman |
04-25-2007 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Nell Freudenberger, The Dissident
Fight This Generationnew
Seven years in, the Underground Literary Alliance is regrouping.
Philadelphia City Paper |
Elisa Ludwig |
04-24-2007 |
Books
Hedunnitnew
Robert Crais unlocks the mystery behind writing crime novels.
Colorado Springs Independent |
Jill Thomas |
04-24-2007 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Robert Crais, The Watchman
Questions of Politics, Love, Sanity and Envynew
Theodore Gericault's 1818 painting "The Raft of the Medusa," a beautifully colored and affecting tableau that depicts survivors of a shipwreck off the African coast, is the subject of this novel.
Baltimore City Paper |
Stephen Peterson |
04-24-2007 |
Fiction
Tags: Arabella Edge, The God of Spring
Misleading Title, but an Apt Metaphornew
The memoir isn't so much about driving with dead people, although the author does describe joyriding in an empty hearse with her high-school friend, the local mortician's daughter.
Baltimore City Paper |
Nicole Leistikow |
04-24-2007 |
Nonfiction
Ishmael Beah as a Little Soldiernew
Bestseller A Long Way Gone tells the story of Beah's participation in Sierra Leone's brutal civil war.
Montreal Mirror |
Patrick Lejtenyi |
04-19-2007 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
Tags: A Long Way Gone, Ishmael Beah
A Modest Meleenew
Goldsher discusses why Modest Mouse frontman Isaac Brock wants to beat the shit out of him.
Chicago Newcity |
Jeremy Schnitker |
04-18-2007 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
Roots of Warnew
Giving hell that homey feeling.
Metro Times |
Kelli B. Kavanaugh |
04-17-2007 |
Nonfiction
See Dick Grownew
Norah Vincent learns there's more to manhood than anatomy.
New Haven Advocate |
Oliver Morris |
04-17-2007 |
Nonfiction
Aging New Yorker Critic Fusty, Film at 11new
Culture vulture Clive James riffs on and off 20th century intellectual pugilists and bete noires.
Baltimore City Paper |
Michaelangelo Matos |
04-17-2007 |
Nonfiction
The Publisher 23new
Curiosity and more than a little obsession drove Doug Mowbray to start putting out books with his imprint twentythreebooks.
Baltimore City Paper |
Brooke Hall |
04-17-2007 |
Books
