AltWeeklies Wire
Bigfoot Tells All in Me Write Booknew
Given that Bigfoot was always a creature more animal than human, expectations for his memoir weren’t high. Fortunately, Graham Roumieu’s brilliantly funny illustrations do much to fill in the inevitable gaps.
Montreal Mirror |
Juliet Waters |
12-19-2005 |
Fiction
Delivering the Unexpectednew
The award-winning stories in this collection illustrate what separates workaday journalism from craft.
Austin Chronicle |
Nora Ankrum |
12-16-2005 |
Nonfiction
'Shattered Glass' It Ain't
Part confessional, part greatest hits collection, Rabid Nun offers a cursory look at the one place in American journal where it's still okay to lie -- the checkout line tabloids.
Columbus Alive |
J. Caleb Mozzocco |
12-15-2005 |
Nonfiction
Screwing With Your Headnew
The author uses this method in attracting readers: The bigger the lie, the more they'll believe it.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Thomas Bell |
12-15-2005 |
Fiction
The Village Voice's Favorite 25 Books of 2005new
The top books of the year cover subjects from teen sex diseases and Aztec slaughterhouses to Kiss riffs and juvenile tambourinists.
The Village Voice |
Staff Writers |
12-14-2005 |
Books
The Better To Givenew
These are not typical gift books. These are books for the rest of us -- books we would actually buy for ourselves, and our loved ones, be they geek or hipster, intellectual or meathead.
Boston Phoenix |
Boston Phoenix staff |
12-13-2005 |
Fiction
Car Talknew
Like many another Jewish writer before him, Rafi Zabor sees family as an epic subject. But a more apt comparison than Saul Bellow is jazz. Zabor writes and riffs -- each tonal shift leading to another alliterative romp.
Boston Phoenix |
John Freeman |
12-13-2005 |
Nonfiction
Tags: I, Wabenzi: A Souvenir, Rafi Zabor
Mississippi Rising
The Coahoma County Survey deserves to be credited as a great success. And now it can be credited to all its participants.
Washington City Paper |
Avi Klein |
12-09-2005 |
Nonfiction
Black Holenew
Black Hole, the new release by ex-RAW magazine artist Charles Burns, is a wonderfully disturbing and imaginative graphic novel.
Dig Boston |
Paul McMorrow |
12-08-2005 |
Fiction
Tags: Black Hole, Charles Burns
Tales From the Wrongfully Convictednew
Surviving Justice, a collaboration between McSweeney's and the University of California at Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism, is a well-researched exploration of America's unjust system of criminal conviction and exoneration.
Dig Boston |
Paul McMorrow |
12-08-2005 |
Nonfiction
Best of Both Worldsnew
Three solid new small press comics straddle the worlds of indy and mainstream.
Columbus Alive |
J. Caleb Mozzocco |
12-08-2005 |
Original Work
Tags: Various Titles, Various Authors
Bibliophile in a Bindnew
The House of Paper is nevertheless a soulful study of the peculiar passions and perils of bibliomania.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Thomas Bell |
12-08-2005 |
Fiction
Kooser for Presidentnew
Nebraskan poet Ted Kooser is America's ambassador for poetry.
Valley Advocate |
Andrew Varnon |
12-08-2005 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
Jingle Booksnew
Have yourself a literary holiday with some unusual small-press publications.
Tucson Weekly |
Jarret Keene |
12-07-2005 |
Nonfiction
Cookie-Cutter Prosenew
The senator's first novel uses language as poetic and moving as a Capitol Hill memo.
