AltWeeklies Wire
Extra Lives: Why Video Games Matternew
Gamers are typically no sufferers of hardship.
San Antonio Current |
Adam Villela Coronado |
08-19-2011 |
Nonfiction
Dirty South Examines Impact of Southern Rapnew
In scores of interviews with key players — some requiring classic shoe-leather man-hunting — Westhoff pins the genre’s roots to 2 Live Crew.
San Antonio Current |
Adam Coronado |
06-17-2011 |
Nonfiction
Small Presses Push On, Despite Economic Hardshipsnew
“I regularly get these pathetic letters from kids all over Texas asking if Wings Press can donate books to their classrooms or libraries. ... I give away a lot of books, but those letters I just forward to Rick Perry.”
San Antonio Current |
Roberto Ontiveros |
06-09-2011 |
Books
Tulia Besiegednew
'Taking our the Trash in Tulia, Texas'
San Antonio Current |
Greg Harman |
02-24-2011 |
Nonfiction
All Is Forgotten, Nothing is Lostnew
Lan Samantha Chang’s new book a nod to anyone tortured by their own aspirations.
San Antonio Current |
Adam Coronado |
02-14-2011 |
Fiction
Reality Bites Backnew
Jennifer Pozner delivers demanding case for deeper TV viewing.
San Antonio Current |
Greg Harman |
02-11-2011 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Reality TV, Jennifer Pozner
Haunted Helenanew
Story of a Texas ghost town. With ghosts.
San Antonio Current |
Roberto Ontiveros |
01-14-2011 |
Nonfiction
Tags: Barry Harrin, Helena Texas
The Three-Headed Salingernew
Review of J.D. Salinger: A Life.
San Antonio Current |
Raymond Cummings |
01-14-2011 |
Nonfiction
The Possibilities of William S. Burroughsnew
Godfather of Beat: from Pharr pot field to talking assholes.
San Antonio Current |
Roberto Ontiveros |
01-07-2011 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
Tags: William S. Burroughs, Naked Lunch
The Poetic Radiance of Elizabeth Alexandernew
An interview with poet Elizabeth Alexander, who is also a playwright, essayist, teacher, and current chair of the African American Studies Department at Yale.
San Antonio Current |
Gregg Barrios |
10-07-2010 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Poetry, Elizabeth Alexander
Bone By Bone: An Interview With Barbara Rasnew
Barbara Ras has been recognized as an American poet of the first rank. Her third book of poems, The Last Skin, was published in March by Penguin.
San Antonio Current |
Ben Judson |
04-28-2010 |
Poetry
Financial Collapse Plus War Plus Suicide Plus Closeted Men Equals OK Novelnew
Finished in September 2008, the very week that Lehman Brothers declared bankruptcy, Union Atlantic offers a lucid perspective on the manner in which the greed and venality of a privileged few can drive the economy toward and beyond the brink of collapse.
San Antonio Current |
Justin Isenhart |
02-24-2010 |
Fiction
Meet the 21st Century's New Literary Movementnew
Early in the aughts, a new creative force emerged. Worldwide political events, crystallized by the 1999 Seattle WTO protests and the terrorist attacks of 9/11, energized a self-aware readership that embraced New Weird, the 21st century’s first major new literary movement.
San Antonio Current |
Rick Klaw |
01-06-2010 |
Books
'A Rebel Life' Remembers Molly Ivinsnew
In First Son: George W. Bush and the Bush Family, Bill Minutaglio deciphered Dubya's career as a campaign of filial devotion and rebellion. Turning now to Bush's spunkiest critic, Minutaglio interprets Ivins as similarly driven by resentment toward her overbearing, overachieving father.
San Antonio Current |
Steven G. Kellman |
10-21-2009 |
Nonfiction
'How to Make Friends With Demons' Ranks as One of the Year's Best Novelsnew
Leaping forward and backward through time, Graham Joyce expertly weaves a cohesive novel that essentially chronicles a mid-life crisis.
San Antonio Current |
Rick Klaw |
09-10-2009 |
Fiction
