AltWeeklies Wire
Poet-performer jessica Care moore Talks Success and Heartbreaknew
She's 36 now, and she's gone from making a big splash as a young prodigy on the stage of the famed Apollo to becoming a real force in the world of poetry and art.
Metro Times |
Norene Cashen |
09-30-2008 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Poetry, jessica Care moore
Novelist Megan Abbott is the New Queen of Noirnew
The Detroit writer hits Hollywood paydirt and turns on James Ellroy.
Metro Times |
Norene Cashen |
09-09-2008 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
Detroit's African-American Writers, Playwrights and Poets Get a Space of Their Ownnew
The development of the African American Literature Special Collection at Wayne State University's Purdy-Kresge Library began in April 2005, when Assistant Dean and Development Director Barton Lessin was approached by Don Vest, co-owner of Broadside Press.
Metro Times |
Norene Cashen |
09-02-2008 |
Books
Immigrant Poet Zilka Joseph Straddles Two Worldsnew
Joseph lives, works and studies here in Michigan, but her poetry tells the story of a woman who exists in two different places. Born in Bombay and raised in Calcutta, Joseph has been in this country since 1997. In a physical sense, moving here meant leaving everything behind. In her poems, she shows that it isn't where you live that matters, but what lives on in you.
Metro Times |
Norene Cashen |
08-12-2008 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
Photo Tome Sheds Light on a Dark Scenenew
Photographer Peter Beste has compiled seven years of capturing fake blood and real shit, inverted crosses and mixed messages that reveal Norwegian black metal bands to be the Ramones of death metal: simple and conceptual, an expression of acceptance and rejection, cartoonish and dead serious.
Metro Times |
Tony Ware |
06-10-2008 |
Nonfiction
Zane Gets Her Freak Onnew
Zane is credited with single-handedly uncovering a market publishers didn't even know existed, forging a way for a new generation of African-American authors who write hot books with African-American audiences in mind.
Metro Times |
Makkada B. Selah |
02-19-2008 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
'Lust': Graphic Sexnew
Seattle cartoonist Ellen Forney does kinky right.
Metro Times |
Sean Bieri |
02-19-2008 |
Nonfiction
'Money for Nothing' Examines a Lotto Winnernew
The fantasy of someday winning the lottery is the ultimate populist pipe dream, but this is the sort of memoir that quells the impulse to engage in the racket.
Metro Times |
Raymond Cummings |
11-13-2007 |
Nonfiction
'Blood Passion' Looks at a Rocky Mountain Lownew
It was the early 1990s when journalist Scott Martelle first read about how more than two dozen people had been killed when National Guardsmen and company detectives opened fire on a tent village of striking copper miners' families in Colorado almost a century ago. The curiosity grew into an obsession, culminating in his new book.
Metro Times |
Michael Jackman |
10-23-2007 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
Literary Dreamers Find Homes at Tiny DIY Pressesnew
Whatever's overly cloying gets edited, marketed and sold by the NYC publishing industry -- anything else often gets a great big "It's a go!" from a chipper editor, but gets redlined once it reaches the marketing department. Here's what independent publishers can do.
Metro Times |
Rebecca Mazzei |
08-21-2007 |
Books
'Writing While Arab'new
The Radius of Arab American Writers (RAWI), with a membership of 215 poets, fiction writers, playwrights, bloggers, filmmakers and others, holds its conference in Dearborn, Mich.
Metro Times |
Lolita Hernandez |
05-22-2007 |
Books
Roots of Warnew
Giving hell that homey feeling.
Metro Times |
Kelli B. Kavanaugh |
04-17-2007 |
Nonfiction
Woman On the Vergenew
A conversation with poet Vievee Francis.
Metro Times |
Peter Markus |
02-27-2007 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Blue-Tail Fly, Vievee Francis
Visions of Visionsnew
Annette Gilson sees a utopia in the Midwest.
Metro Times |
Heather A. McMacken |
02-06-2007 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Annette Gilson, New Light
Pagliacci in the Hoodnew
Jordan's new book focuses on the lyrics of Motown.
Metro Times |
W. Kim Heron |
01-12-2007 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
