AltWeeklies Wire
Tome Raider: Viva Octavia Butlernew
Why is she still known as "that black, female science fiction writer?"
Seattle Weekly |
Karla Starr |
03-05-2007 |
Books
Google-noianew
Raban's post-9/11 novel is less-than-explosive.
Seattle Weekly |
Brian Miller |
02-13-2007 |
Fiction
Tags: surveillance, Jonathan Raban
Operation Smoke and Mirrorsnew
Frank Rich takes a damning peek backstage, but neglects to review the audience.
Seattle Weekly |
Brian Miller |
10-04-2006 |
Nonfiction
A Sinister Tragedynew
Shifting to a narrator who's allowed to show skill, Egan's prose has finally opened into its natural cool canter.
Seattle Weekly |
Thoe Schell-Lambert |
09-13-2006 |
Fiction
Tags: Jennifer Egan, The Keep
To Feel 'Stuff'new
Not long out of college herself, this novelist gets the vibe right for a Brown University outsider.
Seattle Weekly |
Angie Kritenbrink |
08-30-2006 |
Fiction
Tags: Stuff, Andrea Seigel
Smart Pop Analysisnew
What's best about Empire of Dirt is that Fonarow's equally a thinker's thinker and a fan's fan.
Seattle Weekly |
Michaelangelo Matos |
08-16-2006 |
Nonfiction
By the Numbersnew
This blogger-turned-author expands her own dating triumphs, and tears, with new advice for single Seattle women.
Seattle Weekly |
Katie Becker |
08-16-2006 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
Supersized Competitionnew
Fagone is hungry to find deeper meaning in the growing popularity of competitive eating -- but is it there?
Seattle Weekly |
Molly Lori |
07-19-2006 |
Nonfiction
Sympathetic, Never Sournew
Cohen connects much of Western civilization back to his own lineage, building an entire memoir out of historical context.
Seattle Weekly |
Ross Simonini |
07-12-2006 |
Nonfiction
Through the Eyes of a Childnew
Without resorting to melodrama, The Syringa Tree satisfies as the tale of a young girl gradually wising up to the changing world around her.
Seattle Weekly |
Colleen Smith |
07-12-2006 |
Fiction
Tags: Pamela Gien, The Syringa Tree
Idleness and Drudgerynew
Lutz surveys more than three centuries' worth of self-doubting slackers and proud workaholics in this study of the American slacker.
Seattle Weekly |
Neal Schindler |
06-28-2006 |
Nonfiction
Not a Sheltered Childhoodnew
Erlbaum pulls no punches recalling her down-and-out girlhood.
Seattle Weekly |
Rachel Shimp |
06-21-2006 |
Nonfiction
Keenan Charmsnew
Part of the fun of this former Frasier writer's Hollywood satire -- and there's a great deal of fun to be had -- is mentally casting it.
Seattle Weekly |
Gavin Borchert |
06-14-2006 |
Fiction
Tags: Joe Keenan, My Lucky Star
Unevenly Seasonednew
Though I've always admired Anthony Bourdain's bravado and his love of a good beer buzz, I somehow feel cheated by this new bouillabaisse of culinary pieces.
Seattle Weekly |
Molly Lori |
06-07-2006 |
Nonfiction
Tags: Anthony Bourdain, The Nasty Bits
Sluggish But Sincerenew
The author of Prep hits her sophomore slump.
Seattle Weekly |
Rachel Shimp |
05-31-2006 |
Fiction
