AltWeeklies Wire
Carnival of Lost Soulsnew
A New Orleans novelist talks about this year's Mardi Gras.
The Village Voice |
Nick Mamatas |
02-28-2006 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Poppy Z. Brite
Covert Operationsnew
Press gives us his personal take on the abortion war, told through the lens of his immigrant doctor father.
The Village Voice |
Rebecca Tuhus-Dubrow |
02-27-2006 |
Nonfiction
Trouble in Paradisenew
Hawaiian novelist Lois-Ann Yamanaka is as spirited as her books, a dynamo who throws herself headlong into each new project.
The Village Voice |
Anderson Tepper |
02-14-2006 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Behold the Many, Lois-Ann Yamanaka
Scenes From a Mallnew
An heir to Bukowski and Eileen Myles struts her stuff.
The Village Voice |
Brandon Stosuy |
02-08-2006 |
Fiction
The Space Racenew
It's a small world after all: Mike Davis takes a crowded look at global urban catastrophe.
The Village Voice |
Joy Press |
02-08-2006 |
Nonfiction
Tags: Mike Davis, Planet of Slums
Last Nightnew
The sequel to Brightness Falls sets the Calloways adrift in the wake of 9-11.
The Village Voice |
Benjamin Strong |
02-01-2006 |
Fiction
Tags: Jay McInerney, The Good Life
The Voltaic Yoo-Hoo Acid Testnew
A half-forgotten mystery writer's cranium-busting novel tantalizes and antagonizes.
The Village Voice |
Devin McKinney |
01-25-2006 |
Books
Bloc Partynew
Recline and fall: Celine Dion translator's heart goes on -- into the ruins of Bucharest.
The Village Voice |
Joy Press |
01-23-2006 |
Nonfiction
Don't Ask, Don't Tellnew
A rising law-professor star's book analyzes the ways we pass.
The Village Voice |
Robert Ito |
01-18-2006 |
Nonfiction
Emo Expert in Hipster Playgroundnew
Greenwald's pastiche of emo tropes, dime-store Freud and corny similes adds up to the equivalent of an overly earnest late-night blog post.
The Village Voice |
Akiva Gottlieb |
01-18-2006 |
Fiction
Tags: Andy Greenwald, Miss Misery
Forced Exposurenew
As creator of the zine Rollerderby, Lisa Crystal Carver was one of the finest stylists of her generation, and her amazing elegy for the lost underground of the '80s cements her spot.
The Village Voice |
Joy Press |
01-13-2006 |
Nonfiction
Mothers and Daughtersnew
Courtney Love's mother rather belatedly cashes in on her unhinged offspring's notoriety with a memoir, which not only tells tales on her own kid, but seems to share Love's enthusiasm for just making shit up.
The Village Voice |
Jessica Winter |
01-13-2006 |
Nonfiction
Sliding Moresnew
The historical novelist's new book deftly evokes the '60s and '70s.
The Village Voice |
Joy Press |
01-13-2006 |
Fiction
Tags: Sigrid Nunez, The Last of Her Kind
She So Got a Book Dealnew
Cox, freed from the demands of the lightning-quick blogosphere, seems to have second-guess her usual wisecracks -- without the sex jokes, all that's left is stylized cynicism.
The Village Voice |
Izzy Grinspan |
01-11-2006 |
Fiction
Martone on Martonenew
Michael Martone has constructed a perpetual stutter of a novel: 45 hyper-revisionary variations on his own contributor's note, each beginning with the same sentence.
The Village Voice |
Carla Blumenkranz |
01-04-2006 |
Fiction
Tags: Michael Martone
