AltWeeklies Wire
'Ette Tu?
Made-up stories about unsensational bastards are, in the end, just too boring for words.
Washington City Paper |
Brian Beutler |
01-13-2006 |
Fiction
Forced Exposurenew
As creator of the zine Rollerderby, Lisa Crystal Carver was one of the finest stylists of her generation, and her amazing elegy for the lost underground of the '80s cements her spot.
The Village Voice |
Joy Press |
01-13-2006 |
Nonfiction
Mothers and Daughtersnew
Courtney Love's mother rather belatedly cashes in on her unhinged offspring's notoriety with a memoir, which not only tells tales on her own kid, but seems to share Love's enthusiasm for just making shit up.
The Village Voice |
Jessica Winter |
01-13-2006 |
Nonfiction
Cris du cœurnew
Uproot a city of artists and you will hear their cries, and New Orleans was nothing if not a gathering place for creatives. Two new books sing the city's praises and lament its loss.
Boston Phoenix |
Clea Simon |
01-13-2006 |
Nonfiction
Sliding Moresnew
The historical novelist's new book deftly evokes the '60s and '70s.
The Village Voice |
Joy Press |
01-13-2006 |
Fiction
Tags: Sigrid Nunez, The Last of Her Kind
Consider the Wallacenew
Eight books into his career, David Foster Wallace remains a prisoner of postmodern irony.
OC Weekly |
Cornel Bonca |
01-13-2006 |
Nonfiction
Dirty Politicsnew
For two years as Wonkette, Ana Marie Cox was best known for gleeful daily references to "ass-fucking" and political tawdriness in the blogosphere, but now she’s moving on to different endeavors.
Boston Phoenix |
Deirdre Fulton |
01-12-2006 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Dog Days, Ana Marie Cox
Slim to Nilnew
Bob Armstrong's reflections would be a fascinating story, if only he hadn't tried so hard to write himself into the role of street prophet and pimp poet.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Thomas Bell |
01-12-2006 |
Fiction
She So Got a Book Dealnew
Cox, freed from the demands of the lightning-quick blogosphere, seems to have second-guess her usual wisecracks -- without the sex jokes, all that's left is stylized cynicism.
The Village Voice |
Izzy Grinspan |
01-11-2006 |
Fiction
The Prequel Pekarnew
With the rest of his life thoroughly documented through thirty years of American Splendor, Harvey Pekar's new book The Quitter has the air of a swan song.
Chicago Newcity |
Brian and Matthew Hieggelke |
01-10-2006 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Harvey Pekar, The Quitter
I [Heart] New Yorknew
Stack your Hegel, Kant, Marx and any and all NYC gallery guides on the nightstand -- everything's about to get real heavy with this knotty and ambitious work.
Boston Phoenix |
Colin Fleming |
01-06-2006 |
Nonfiction
Technical Knockout
Burke's portrait is a vivid, exhaustively researched and aptly deployed biography that brings Miller to life.
Washington City Paper |
Rebecca Tuhus-Dubrow |
01-06-2006 |
Nonfiction
Gaffes for Laughsnew
Don't Try This at Home contains over three dozen anecdotes confessing all sorts of disasters and illicit scenarios in the kitchen.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Bill Addison |
01-05-2006 |
Nonfiction
Tags: Nonfiction Reviews
The Culture of Jackonew
Looking past questions of what he did or didn't do, this book examines the Michael Jackson phenomenon as American popular culture pushed to its logical extremes.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Thomas Bell |
01-05-2006 |
Nonfiction
Martone on Martonenew
Michael Martone has constructed a perpetual stutter of a novel: 45 hyper-revisionary variations on his own contributor's note, each beginning with the same sentence.
The Village Voice |
Carla Blumenkranz |
01-04-2006 |
Fiction
Tags: Michael Martone
