AltWeeklies Wire
Book Has Become Valuable History After Hurricanenew
The author's love (an angry, desperate, grieving, intimate love) for the culture reads sincere, offering a full sensory tour of a part of New Orleans that was always way off the tourist map and may now be gone forever.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Thomas Bell |
11-17-2005 |
Nonfiction
DIY Booksnew
Putting out your own book is still considered far more tacky than putting out your own CD -- but self-published authors are betting that's going to change.
An Art-History Detective Story
A new book about Italian artist Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio demonstrates that geniuses, especially in their personal lives, aren't always what they're cracked up to be.
The Inlander |
Michael Bowen |
11-16-2005 |
Nonfiction
Tags: Jonathan Harr, The Lost Painting
Stateless in Seattlenew
Jonathan Raban, a cranky, globe-trotting Englishman, sailed into town and became the premier chronicler of life and thought in the Northwest.
Seattle Weekly |
Tim Appelo |
11-16-2005 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
Fortresses of Whitenessnew
This study of the thousands of all-white towns that banned blacks after sundown is marred by classic blame-the-victim rhetoric.
Baltimore City Paper |
Makkada B. Selah |
11-15-2005 |
Nonfiction
Cuban Writer M.M. Pascal-Paul: Not for the Feeble-Mindednew
The rising literary star says the blurring of reality and fiction, actually, the elimination of fact, is the fundamental issue of our day. Or did she even say that?
Miami New Times |
Kirk Nielsen |
11-14-2005 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
Behind Enemy Linesnew
Worming into the belly of the Bible-thumping beast, infiltration journalist Harmon Leon goes undercover as a conservative, joining political activism with absurdist theater.
Boulder Weekly |
Vince Darcangelo |
11-14-2005 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Harmon Leon, Republican Like Me
You Can't Spell 'Funeral' Without F-U-Nnew
Mary Roach explores great misadventures in paranormal research and makes our final destination seem less like a morgue and more like a comedy club.
Boulder Weekly |
Vince Darcangelo |
11-14-2005 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
A Bird! A Plane! A Conservative!new
In the first-ever comic book explicitly by and for conservatives, patriotic superhero Captain America is irrelevant because, says co-creator Mike Mackey, "traditional American values are not traditional anymore."
Boston Phoenix |
Mike Miliard |
11-11-2005 |
Fiction
Sounds Like Science, but ...new
The Bush administration creates an environment toxic for science, says journalist Chris Mooney.
Valley Advocate |
Andrew Varnon |
11-11-2005 |
Nonfiction
Sean Hannity, Cyborg Hero of the People
A new comic book series posits a futuristic, liberal dystopia where the only thing between mollycoddled terrorists and the total annihilation of the American people are action heroes G. Gordon Liddy and Sean Hannity.
Columbus Alive |
J. Caleb Mozzocco |
11-10-2005 |
Fiction
Dowsednew
Rick Moody has made an ambitious leap into a sprawling, overstuffed satiric novel centered on the efforts of various incompetents to create a television mini-series called The Diviners.
Boston Phoenix |
Richard C. Walls |
11-10-2005 |
Fiction
Tags: Rick Moody, The Diviners
John Dicker: Taking On The Other Uncle Samnew
John Dicker takes on the Waltons, Target and the poor healthcare practices of Wal-Mart in this interview with the Jackson Free Press.
Jackson Free Press |
Casey Parks and Todd Stauffer |
11-10-2005 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
It's an Irresistable Literary Conceitnew
Since 1969, George McDonald Fraser's "Flashman" series has been arguably the funniest -- and most educational -- series of novels being published.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Thomas Bell |
11-10-2005 |
Fiction
Dr. Seuss, Pre-Med
A new collection of early works reveals Dr. Seuss as more than just another brand name or massively influential children's book author: He was a real, living artist whose work wasn't always all that great.
Columbus Alive |
J. Caleb Mozzocco |
11-09-2005 |
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