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Buy Some Stuff, Enslave Somebodynew
In Nobodies, John Bowe aims to make explicit the connection between the rise of the global market and the growing number of people throughout the world living in poverty, doomed to spend their lives providing goods and services for people born into wealthier circumstances.
The Texas Observer |
Josh Rosenblatt |
12-17-2007 |
Nonfiction
Grievous Angelnew
In his meticulously researched biography, David Meyer condemns the romanticized version of Gram Parsons and calls the man himself, by turns, "a pathological liar, an unreliable friend, a narcissistic husband and careless father."
The Memphis Flyer |
Leonard Gill |
12-14-2007 |
Nonfiction
Johnny Cash: Master of Mainstream Countrynew
Michael Streissguth's Johnny Cash: The Biography distinguishes itself as a portrayal of a man who was not ahead of his time, though he sure lived that way, but associated with those who were.
Shepherd Express |
Martin Jack Rosenblum |
12-14-2007 |
Nonfiction
'I Question America'new
Mills' book is worth reading, not only because it is well written and thoroughly researched, but also because it describes the life of a person who would rank in the top 10 of the most important and essential Mississippians of the last 50 years.
Jackson Free Press |
Jere Nash |
12-13-2007 |
Nonfiction
Remember the Brilliant Steve Martin?new
Martin's slim new memoir, Born Standing Up, covers his stand-up years, and thankfully it's a lot more interesting of a story to tell than a facile tale of perseverance and cheap hotel rooms.
The Portland Mercury |
Chas Bowie |
12-13-2007 |
Nonfiction
Permanent Vacationnew
Ed Hamilton checked into the Chelsea Hotel to write a novel, but the constant distractions led to his blog instead. Then his blog led to a book.
Philadelphia City Paper |
Sam Tremble |
12-11-2007 |
Nonfiction
The City That Care Rememberednew
Joshua Clark's memoir is, quite simply, a mess of beautiful language, heart-wrenching tales, drunken vagaries and eccentric characters.
Jackson Free Press |
Gary Sheppard |
12-11-2007 |
Nonfiction
Re-Examining the Relationship Between Gertrude Stein & Alice B. Toklasnew
Two Lives continually calls attention to the pitfalls and pratfalls of literary biography; in this regard, whatever the veracity of the episodes uncovered, Malcolm's work can be considered an honest enterprise.
Baltimore City Paper |
Zak M. Salih |
12-11-2007 |
Nonfiction
'Young Stalin': Georgia Rulenew
New biography shows the wild west underground education of a future dictator.
Baltimore City Paper |
John Barry |
12-11-2007 |
Nonfiction
In the Pursuit of Happinessnew
Jane Bernstein's Rachel in the World describes the challenges facing developmentally delayed adults and their families.
Pittsburgh City Paper |
Bill O'Driscoll |
12-10-2007 |
Nonfiction
A Look at How We Receive New Forms of Representationnew
In Uncanny Bodies, Robert Spadoni argues that during the silents-to-sound era of 1927–1931, movie audiences had to make a perceptual adjustment to accept the idea of synchronized sound.
Metro Silicon Valley |
Michael S. Gant |
12-06-2007 |
Nonfiction
Spalding Weaves Herself Into Crime Narrativenew
Every bit as fraught as its title, Linda Spalding's Who Named the Knife is a glassine web of Didionesque passive sentences, re-creating a crime in Hawaii in 1978.
Metro Silicon Valley |
Richard von Busack |
12-06-2007 |
Nonfiction
Alex Ross Brings the Noisenew
Ross travels from the golden age of Strauss, Mahler and Wagner, through the mid-century struggles of composers -- American, European, black and white, classical, jazz and pretty much everything else.
Montreal Mirror |
Juliet Waters |
12-04-2007 |
Nonfiction
Investigating an Imaginary Crisisnew
Stephanie Mencimer has written a bracing narrative of who, how, and why "tort reform" became law in Texas and elsewhere.
The Texas Observer |
Suzanne Batchelor |
12-03-2007 |
Nonfiction
Jocks on Trialnew
Until Proven Innocent is a seething indictment of the individuals and institutions in Durham, North Carolina that conspired to put three demonstrably innocent lacrosse players in jail for 30 years.
NOW Magazine |
Howard Goldenthal |
11-30-2007 |
Nonfiction
