AltWeeklies Wire
Day of the Rabbitnew
Theme parks and serial killers abound in Karp's first novel.
L.A. Weekly |
Geoff Nicholson |
05-04-2006 |
Fiction
Tags: Marshall Karp, The Rabbit Factory
Lemony Snippetsnew
Handler writes infuriatingly charming fiction.
L.A. Weekly |
Nathan Ihara |
05-04-2006 |
Fiction
Tags: Adverbs, Daniel Handler
The Literature of Sufferingnew
Abani doesn't simply serve up another steaming dish of atrocity -- he strives for something more sublime and illusive.
L.A. Weekly |
Nathan Ihara |
04-27-2006 |
Fiction
Tags: Becoming Abigail, Chris Abani
I Am Not a Housewifenew
Even women who can’t stand what Flanagan has to say concede that she’s a terrific writer -- her trenchant wit and breezily fluid prose make Maureen Dowd’s look like the work of a shrill amateur.
L.A. Weekly |
Ella Taylor |
04-13-2006 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
Fightingnew
This excerpt is also known as "The Growth of Empire," or "Before the War, Other Wars."
L.A. Weekly |
Ben Ehrenreich |
04-06-2006 |
Excerpts
Tags: Ben Ehrenreich, The Suitors
Bildungsromanesquenew
David Mitchell's novel tracks an 80s adolescence.
L.A. Weekly |
Claire Messud |
03-30-2006 |
Fiction
Tags: Black Swan Green, David Mitchell
The Fallaci Codenew
Oriana Fallaci asks: Is Muslim immigration to Europe a conspiracy?
L.A. Weekly |
Brendan Bernhard |
03-16-2006 |
Nonfiction
Fatherless Manhattannew
Murphy navigates calamity with virtuosic language and bone-dry humor, resulting in a wholly unsentimental but peculiarly hopeful portrait of family love.
L.A. Weekly |
Michelle Huneven |
03-09-2006 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Here They Come, Yannick Murphy
Octavia Butler, 1947-2006new
Butler's work was grounded in the reality of a grim, racist Pasadena that Jackie Robinson, another native son, hated and never wanted to return to.
L.A. Weekly |
Jervey Tervalon |
03-02-2006 |
Books
The American Nightmare: Will We Be Eclipsed by the European Union?new
Jeremy Rifkin elaborates on his assertion that the European Union, and not the United States, is the humanist dream factory of tomorrow.
L.A. Weekly |
Brendan Bernhard |
09-17-2004 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
Earth Daze: Prose for the Planetnew
Naked offers a hopeful antidote to boring travel writing: a wide assortment of nonfiction, memoirs, short stories, essays and excerpted correspondence in which the environment is not just a setting but a character with dialogue.
L.A. Weekly |
Joshuah Bearman |
08-11-2004 |
Nonfiction
