AltWeeklies Wire
What Happened After MLK Died?new
Rebecca Burns examines the week following Martin Luther King Jr.'s assassination in her new book, Burial for a King.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Wyatt Williams |
01-17-2011 |
Books
Tags: Burial for a King
Pinocchio, Vampire Slayer Carves Up Disneyfied Classicnew
Van Jensen and Dusty Higgins' trilogy transcends vampire shtick.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Curt Holman |
11-30-2010 |
Fiction
Crank That ATLnew
Atlanta: Hip-Hop and the South snaps the city's next generation of rappers.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Christina Lee |
11-09-2010 |
Books
Chuck Klosterman's Unusual Place in the Literary Worldnew
Chuck Klosterman occupies an unusual place in the literary world. His popular essays are neither purely journalistic nor academic nor critical.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Wyatt Williams |
10-12-2010 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Chuck Klosterman
David Sedaris Does Fables His Waynew
Sedaris’ take on beasts of burden in 'Squirrel Seeks Chipmunk: A Modest Bestiary' proves hilarious.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Curt Holman |
10-08-2010 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
Tags: David Sedaris
'The Eastern Stars': Like Baseball For Sugarnew
In his new book The Eastern Stars, author Mark Kurlansky sets out to explain how baseball became as important as sugar in the Dominican town of San Pedro de Macorís.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Wyatt Williams |
04-27-2010 |
Nonfiction
Tags: Mark Kurlansky, The Eastern Stars
Chang-Rae Lee Hits Operatic Notes in 'The Surrendered'new
Epic, ambitious and expansive are the sort of words that tempt use when describing The Surrendered.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Wyatt Williams |
04-13-2010 |
Fiction
Tags: Chang-rae Lee, The Surrendered
Thomas Mullen Breathes Life into 'The Firefly Brothers'new
"It all began when they died." So begins The Many Deaths of the Firefly Brothers, Decatur resident Thomas Mullen's new book about a pair of Depression-era bank robbers who have a little problem with dying.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Wyatt Williams |
02-09-2010 |
Fiction
Jamie Iredell Bends His Prose Poems Into a Novelistic Arcnew
The narrator of Jamie Iredell's Prose. Poems. A Novel. is named Larry, but no one ever calls him that. His co-worker Sharon calls him a "fucking son of a bitch" – a more fitting moniker despite its lack of brevity.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Wyatt Williams |
01-19-2010 |
Fiction
Jayne Anne Phillips Summons Faulkner in 'Lark & Termite'new
On July 26, 1950, Corp. Robert Leavitt is leading a frenzied retreat in rural Korea. On July 26, 1959, his orphaned son Termite is sitting under a tree in West Virginia waiting for a rainstorm. Inside the house, Termite's half-sister Lark is baking him a birthday cake.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Wyatt Williams |
01-12-2010 |
Fiction
Anthology Looks Back at the Year in Atlanta Artnew
FORM: artistic independence, an annual publication now in its second year, selects submissions from artists who live within 100 miles of Atlanta and binds them together in a big, hardbound book. Williams-England, a nonprofit design firm based out of WonderRoot Studio, has done an admirable job designing the volume.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Wyatt Williams |
01-12-2010 |
Nonfiction
Neil Gaiman Still Writes in the Shadow of His Masterpiecenew
Neil Gaiman's output equals only the tiniest fraction of the Disney corporate empire but he's a staggeringly prolific and eclectic creator. In the past 15 years, he's shifted his creative focus away from comics to other forms, including novels, kid-friendly picture books and high-profile screenplays.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Curt Holman |
01-12-2010 |
Fiction
Tags: The Graveyard Book, neil gaiman
'Love at the Pub' Pours on the Praise for Decatur’s Brick Store Pubnew
There's something sweet in the task Mary Jane Mahan sets out to accomplish with Love at the Pub: An Insider's Guide to Craftsmanship, Conversation and Community at the Brick Store Pub. Mahan takes a small business – Decatur's Brick Store Pub – and turns it into a mythological realm.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Besha Rodell |
01-12-2010 |
Nonfiction
Tags: Love at the Pub, Mary Jane Mahan
A Biography of Ayn Rand Examines Her Intellectual Legacynew
Jennifer Burns had access to Rand’s journals, letters and private papers. She’s put that access to good use in Goddess of the Market: Ayn Rand and the American Right, a vivid, intellectual portrait of the woman born as Alisa Rosenbaum in 1905.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Wyatt Williams |
01-12-2010 |
Nonfiction
Augusten Burroughs Gets Personal with Santa in 'You Better Not Cry'new
While discussing Christmas (his favorite holiday), Burroughs says he sees one common thread throughout his memories, "Each one has been horrible, worse than the last." He's recounted those laughably miserable memories in his latest book, a loose collection of Christmas stories spanning from his youth until just a few years ago.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Wyatt Williams |
11-10-2009 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
