AltWeeklies Wire
Duke and UNC Team Up to Make Poetic Connectionsnew
"This conference is happening here--and that's not an accident. They haven't had one like this in New York yet, or in San Francisco yet. This is a thing that could only happen here."
Patrick Thibeault Releases a Booknew
Combat medic releases a book on his many adventures in war.
Tags: war, Patrick Thibeault
Kore Valuesnew
A local press promotes the love of literature with The Big Read
Tucson Weekly |
Jarret Keene |
11-10-2011 |
Books
The Whore of Akronnew
A displaced Clevelander honors his hometown by stalking the man who spurned it.
Cleveland Scene |
Scott Raab |
11-09-2011 |
Excerpts
Charles Fishman on the Revenge of Waternew
Author Charles Fishman talks about water - origins, quality, scarcity and what we can do to preserve it.
Stephen Beachy, the Bone Collectornew
Digging for authorial voice in boneyard.
East Bay Express |
Stefanie Kalem |
11-07-2011 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
Historic Womennew
Virginia Scharff heads to Antigone Books to talk about her impeccable Thomas Jefferson family bio
Tucson Weekly |
Margaret Regan |
11-03-2011 |
Books
A Child's View From a Hot Place Fails to Escape the Pitnew
Hell, despite what Sartre, said about it being “other people,” is usually depicted as a lonely place, either the cascading trauma of lost relations in Clive Barker's The Hellbound Heart, or the clammy cochlea of torture tunnels in the those too-loud Pinhead movies inspired by his quite novella.
San Antonio Current |
Roberto Ontiveros |
10-27-2011 |
Fiction
Pete Dexter Lets It Bleednew
Hard at work on his eighth novel, the Deadwood author still packs a punch.
Seattle Weekly |
Ellis E. Conklin |
10-27-2011 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
The Exorcist Novel Turns 40new
Perhaps the reason The Exorcist is such a terrifying experience is because author William Peter Blatty wasn’t even trying to be scary.
San Antonio Current |
Enrique Lopetegui |
10-26-2011 |
Fiction
Tags: The Exorcist, William Peter Blatty
Picking on Papanew
David Ray's Hemingway biography-in-verse sermonizes on a great writer's failings.
Tucson Weekly |
Jarret Keene |
10-25-2011 |
Nonfiction
Time for Fine Fall Paperbacksnew
This week, we're looking at new fall paperbacks we feel are worth your time.
Creative Loafing (Charlotte) |
John Grooms |
10-24-2011 |
Fiction
Wilmington's John Jeremiah Sullivan Roughs it in Pulpheadnew
The wide-ranging subjects in Pulphead are unified into a coherent book by Sullivan's fine prose and lively voice, which can be scholarly, snarky, lyrical or harsh as suits the occasion.
Review: Disquieting, Disturbing and Dreadfulnew
The canal walk downtown set the scene for spine-tingling stories as told by Indiana storytellers.
El Paso Author Welcomes Your Criticismnew
The biggest threat to the literary arts, according to El Paso-born author Sergio Troncoso, is the “money culture in publishing.”
San Antonio Current |
Roberto Ontiveros |
10-19-2011 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
