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Professional But Poor in Americanew
New book resets the middle class trap.
Philadelphia City Paper |
Doron Taussig |
06-20-2007 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
For Love or Mummynew
The Professor's Daughter is a French love story about an Egyptologist, his daughter and the mummy who loves her.
Philadelphia City Paper |
Sam Tremble |
05-29-2007 |
Fiction
Leonard Part 41new
Talking with Elmore Leonard on the release of his 41st(!) novel.
Philadelphia City Paper |
Duane Swierczynski |
05-15-2007 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Elmore Leonard, Up in Honey's Room
Fight This Generationnew
Seven years in, the Underground Literary Alliance is regrouping.
Philadelphia City Paper |
Elisa Ludwig |
04-24-2007 |
Books
Bissell Finds His Father in Vietnamnew
He cuts a narrative path through the 30-year overgrowth in the war-torn jungles forming both his father's identity and the history of Vietnam.
Philadelphia City Paper |
Sam Tremble |
04-10-2007 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
Philly's More Fun When You Get the Facts Straightnew
Travel guides, although often well-intentioned, say all sorts of bizarre things about Philadelphia and the people who live here -- we give you a few choice samples, and our responses.
Philadelphia City Paper |
Joel Tannenbaum |
04-10-2007 |
Books
Past Imperfectnew
Sixties super-producer Joe Boyd says the best sound is straight to stereo.
Philadelphia City Paper |
Sam Adams |
04-03-2007 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
Only the Dead Know Whodunitnew
Lippman talks about her latest novel, which is based on a real-life mystery.
Philadelphia City Paper |
Duane Swierczynski |
04-03-2007 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Laura Lippman, What the Dead Know
Genre-Bendernew
Jonathan Lethem writes chick lit, with occasional kangaroos.
Philadelphia City Paper |
Will Dean |
03-27-2007 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
Dead Airnew
Lost City Radio follows the cleaving of three lives in the wake of civil war in an unnamed South American city.
Philadelphia City Paper |
Sam Tremble |
03-20-2007 |
Fiction
Tags: Daniel Alarcon, Lost City Radio
Split in Twainnew
Jon Clinch's tale of Huck Finn's father is dense, lyrical and mildly archaic.
Philadelphia City Paper |
Justin Bauer |
02-27-2007 |
Fiction
Tags: Finn, Jon Clinch
Through the Lens, Annienew
What makes this expensive photo book worth owning is that ultimately it is a self-portrait of the photographer.
Philadelphia City Paper |
Lewis Whittington |
12-13-2006 |
Nonfiction
Here As I Amnew
Stefanko's new photo anthology is pretty in Patti.
Philadelphia City Paper |
Frank Stefanko |
12-05-2006 |
Nonfiction
Witness to Himselfnew
Shubin wrote his first shocking best seller 53 years ago -- as he got older, he got more noir.
Philadelphia City Paper |
Duane Swierczynski |
05-02-2006 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Seymour Shubin
Jersey Guynew
With words, pictures and a podcast, the serial Web novel True Jersey takes fiction to new dimensions.
Philadelphia City Paper |
A.D. Amorosi |
03-21-2006 |
Books
Tags: podcasting
