AltWeeklies Wire
The Bugman Comethnew
Human insect chooses obvious career path: gangster.
Dig Boston |
Stewart Mason |
01-17-2007 |
Fiction
Tags: Kockroach, Tyler Knox
Literary Diarrheanew
To call reading this book a waste of time is almost an insult to activities like picking your toes and staring at the wall.
Dig Boston |
Luke O'Neil |
01-03-2007 |
Fiction
Tags: Against the Day, Thomas Pynchon
Telegraphing Murdernew
Larson's new novel is in all ways a conceptual sequel to its predecessor, The Devil in the White City.
Dig Boston |
Stewart Mason |
12-06-2006 |
Fiction
Tags: Erik Larson, Thunderstruck
Intensive TMInew
If you don't really want to know what the boot-in-bush ritual is (hint: yes, it's exactly what you think), then this isn't the book for you.
Dig Boston |
Mason Stewart |
11-22-2006 |
Nonfiction
The Salacious Hostessnew
Sedaris lovingly instructs readers on matters of ettiquette.
Dig Boston |
Rachael Rosner |
11-08-2006 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
What If Democracy Sucked?new
All Tim Davis did was set out to photograph what politics in America looks like right now; it's not his fault the modern political landscape is a desolate place.
Dig Boston |
Paul McMorrow |
07-05-2006 |
Nonfiction
Tags: My Life in Politics, Tim Davis
A Swell of New Versenew
Each sample in this book has enough immediate appeal to entice and soothe skittish newbs and enough canonical footing to make it OK for seasoned masochistic enthusiasts.
Dig Boston |
Michael Brodeur |
06-14-2006 |
Poetry
Tags: Various, Wave Books
Chillin’ with Calvin Trillinnew
Check out Calvin Trillin's book.
It's full of poems from the Nation.
On the Bush administration.
Dig Boston |
Lissa Harris |
06-14-2006 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Calvin Trillin
On Writing Songs for Clay Aikennew
This book is aimed primarily at those willing to hawk their wares as full-time songwriters -- not singers or bandleaders, but the kind of pencil-pushing music geeks who stay home all day working out songs on notepads and MIDI keyboards.
Dig Boston |
Matt Parish |
06-07-2006 |
Nonfiction
Piss-And-Tellnew
Jong has photographed herself peeing all over New York, Florida, China, Mexico and Hawaii -- this book documents her spree.
Dig Boston |
Paul McMorrow |
05-24-2006 |
Nonfiction
Tags: Ellen Jong, Pees on Earth
Postmarked 'Gimmickville'new
Almond throws a blast of cold water on his latest literary masterpiece, Which Brings Me To You.
Dig Boston |
Steve Almond |
05-17-2006 |
Fiction
Seedy, Needy, and Neuroticnew
This series of vignettes involves characters in offensive TV commercials who have their dignity and humanity robbed from them in service of the sale.
Dig Boston |
Joe Keohane |
05-10-2006 |
Fiction
Extremely Loud and Incredibly Stinkynew
The celebrated author faces fatherhood talks about his latest novel, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close.
Dig Boston |
Susan McCarthy |
04-19-2006 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Jonathan Safran Foer
The World's Greatest Fighter Chokesnew
You might not be able to judge a book by its cover, but you can sure as hell judge the author who wrote it.
Dig Boston |
Aaron Lecklider |
03-15-2006 |
Nonfiction
Incarceration and Miserynew
Thanks to renowned photographer Tomas Roma’s latest offering, we’re free to dwell on Holmesburg Prison's palpable evil from the comfort of our living rooms.
Dig Boston |
Paul McMorrow |
02-08-2006 |
Nonfiction
