AltWeeklies Wire
Connecting Indie-Media Dotsnew
Democracy Now! host Amy Goodman hits the road to promote her new book.
Tucson Weekly |
Hank Stephenson |
04-23-2009 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
Considering Dominique Green, Capital Punishment, and Justicenew
Dominique Green's execution and short life--he was arrested, convicted, and sent to Death Row at age 18--is the subject of popular history writer Thomas Cahill's remarkable new book.
Baltimore City Paper |
Michael Corbin |
04-21-2009 |
Nonfiction
'Alphabet Juice' Is a Sesquipedlaian Delightnew
Reading Alphabet Juice is like chaperoning a jungle gym full of words at play; you attentively watch them run among and slip and slide as you sit back and enjoy the cool evening breeze.
Jackson Free Press |
Sarah Litvin |
04-16-2009 |
Nonfiction
Eclipsing Slave History: 'Sugar of the Crop'new
Sana Butler set out to tell the stories of the children of slaves in America. Her book, however, is all about her, which is a shame.
Jackson Free Press |
Walter Biggins |
04-16-2009 |
Nonfiction
Mexico's Just Coffee Raises the Bar for Free Tradenew
The simple idea of Just Coffee was to help farmers in at least one Chiapas village make enough money so that they could stay on their land. Today, that idea is a success story; the community of Salvador Urbina is thriving rather than just surviving, and Just Coffee's concept promises to revolutionize the free-trade movement.
Tucson Weekly |
Tim Vanderpool |
04-16-2009 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
A Private Journey: Mara Altman's Unusual Memoirnew
At 26, Altman had never had an orgasm, so she embarked on a yearlong search for satisfaction. Her personality improbably shape shifts through the various chest-thumpingly macho stereotypes of male adventure fiction.
New York Press |
Mishka Shubaly |
04-16-2009 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
Public Library Takes the Reins of the Arkansas Literary Festivalnew
For book geeks, spring in Little Rock has gained a whole new appeal in the last few years. That's because of the Arkansas Literary Festival.
Arkansas Times |
David Koon |
04-16-2009 |
Books
'Entrapment': A Never-Before-Published Story by Nelson Algrennew
About 300 pages of an unfinished novel wound up in the Algren archives at Ohio State University, and in edited form they make their first public appearance as "Entrapment," from a new collection of previously unpublished work by Algren edited by Brooke Horvath and Dan Simon for Seven Stories Press.
Chicago Reader |
Nelson Algren |
04-13-2009 |
Original Work
Twitter Novels Include 140 Characters at a Timenew
Fast on the thumbs of cell-phone-novel-writing Japanese schoolgirls, Twitter novels beg the question: Why?
North Bay Bohemian |
Hannah Smith |
04-09-2009 |
Books
Veering Out of the Fast Lane: 'See You in a Hundred Years'new
Logan Ward and his family left Manhattan for rural Virginia, where they lived without electricity, phones or laptops for a year. To heal our planet, we can all use a little of what they learned, even without giving up our reading lamps.
Jackson Free Press |
Kelly Bryan Smith |
04-09-2009 |
Nonfiction
'Best of Contemporary Mexican Fiction' Introduces Readers to Living Writers from Across the Bordernew
Chances are that a recognizable literary talent is already dead. This is the challenge that confronts a book like Best of Contemporary Mexican Fiction. It features 16 writers, all of whom still walk the Earth.
Tucson Weekly |
Jarret Keene |
04-08-2009 |
Fiction
Well-to-Do Discriminationnew
The Help is a fictional expose of racial discrimination set in 1960s Jackson, Miss., told with pathos and humor.
Jackson Free Press |
Jackie Warren Tatum |
04-03-2009 |
Fiction
Roger Clemens's Rise and Fallnew
A career once on a par with those of Christy Mathewson, Warren Spahn, and Sandy Koufax now rests with Pete Rose and Shoeless Joe.
Boston Phoenix |
George Kimball |
04-02-2009 |
Nonfiction
A New Study Storms the Barriers Between Punk and Metalnew
Whether you agree with the author or not, This Ain't the Summer of Love considerably raises the bar for engaged exploration of music subcultures.
Baltimore City Paper |
Bret McCabe |
03-31-2009 |
Nonfiction
David C. Korten Proposes a New Economic Modelnew
His Agenda for a New Economy is a departure from the same old rehashed economic theories of the past. It doesn't just nibble around the edges of the current economic crisis.
Jackson Free Press |
Ronni Mott |
03-27-2009 |
Nonfiction
