AltWeeklies Wire
'The Great Man' Explores Advanced Agenew
Kate Christensen presents vital characters who challenge typical depictions of the elderly as staid and conservative. These women are complicated, smart, witty, and sexy — even Internet savvy!
San Francisco Bay Guardian |
Glen Helfand |
09-12-2007 |
Fiction
Peter Kuper Has Self-Aware Flashbacksnew
With his unnervingly honest new graphic novel, Stop Forgetting to Remember, New York–based master illustrator Kuper turns in a devastating rendering of his city as it passes the turn of the century — and of a Cheshire cartoonist and his past adolescent meanderings.
San Francisco Bay Guardian |
Ari Messer |
09-12-2007 |
Fiction
'Powers' Reveals the Truth Behind Fantasynew
Portland author Ursula Le Guin peoples her worlds with mutable characters motivated complexly, humanly, not by inner wellsprings of grab-bag good or evil.
Willamette Week |
Matthew Korfhage |
09-12-2007 |
Fiction
Don DeLillo's Slender Novel Shows Impressive Depthnew
If Underworld was an epic exploration of the political and cultural machinations of an entire era in American history, then Falling Man is a subtle snippet of said history, subversive in how it undermines exactly what we crave and expect from this popular chronicler of our country's highs and lows.
Baltimore City Paper |
Zak M. Salih |
09-11-2007 |
Fiction
Freebird!new
Mitch Myers might have done better to split The Boy Who Cried Freebird into two separate halves: one devoted to straightforward rock journalism and another for fiction-oriented CD reviews and tall tales best told over tallboys.
Baltimore City Paper |
Raymond Cummings |
09-11-2007 |
Fiction
'The Chess Machine' Turns into a Soap Operanew
In his historical novel, Löhr's got an opportunity to lard his story with ideas about technology, deception, or gamesmanship, he instead settles for breathless and unsophisticated daytime-drama shenanigans.
Baltimore City Paper |
Violet Glaze |
09-11-2007 |
Fiction
Frank Lloyd Wright's Extra-Marital Activitiesnew
Debut novelist Nancy Horan takes Wright's real-life affair with Mamah Cheney and runs with it.
Shepherd Express |
Rebecca Schlei |
09-10-2007 |
Fiction
Canada Exists, Sanjania Doesn’tnew
Stephen Mache's fictional anthology, Shining at the Bottom of the Sea, has cultural challenges remarkably similar to Canada's.
Montreal Mirror |
Juliet Waters |
09-07-2007 |
Fiction
'Delible' is a Haunting Storynew
Vancouver writer Anne Stone's third novel is inventive and lushly rendered.
NOW Magazine |
Zoe Whittall |
09-07-2007 |
Fiction
'The Exception': Mean Girlsnew
Danish author Christian Jungersen's new novel educates about genocide.
Philadelphia City Paper |
Amy Baily |
09-04-2007 |
Fiction
Emma Donoghue's Long-Distance Love Story Breaks Downnew
The prose here is much better than almost anything else available in contemporary lesbo lit, but lacks the ideas and outrage of her historical fiction.
NOW Magazine |
Susan G. Cole |
08-31-2007 |
Fiction
A Less-Than-Flattering Tribute to Jack Kerouacnew
Robertson highlights that gap between fantasy and reality -- and pursues his theme of deluded hero worship -- by showing us a Kerouac who is nasty, racist, anti-Semitic and hopelessly in love with America.
NOW Magazine |
Susan G. Cole |
08-31-2007 |
Fiction
Identity Theft Thrillernew
Now out in paperback, Talk Talk places Dana Halter, a deaf woman, at the center of a nightmare narrative about identity theft.
Crime Novel 'Heartsick' Doubles as a Guide to Portlandnew
Oregonian columnist Chelsea Cain creates a stale, gory whodunit set in the Pearl District, North Portland and Sauvie Island, offering the simple personalized pleasure that a child might get from seeing his name in one of those made-to-order storybooks.
Willamette Week |
Alastair Rockoff |
08-29-2007 |
Fiction
'Ovenman': The Pizza Boy's Best Efforts Equal Mediocritynew
Equal parts sleazy and frenetic, Parker's debut is a chortle-out-loud story about the sweaty, battle-scarred struggle between creating self-monuments and throwing hand grenades.
Willamette Week |
Annie Bethancourt |
08-29-2007 |
Fiction
