AltWeeklies Wire
No 'Hero' Here in Jason Peter's Memoirnew
Peter reveals his own darkest moments of drug abuse, but it's almost unforgivable that he sweeps under the rug the fact that his brother Christian, who guided him during those glory years at Nebraska, was at the center of a notorious case of athlete protectionism.
NOW Magazine |
Jason Keller |
08-11-2008 |
Nonfiction
A New Book on Vermont Country Stores Reveals Why They're Here for the Long Haulnew
If you go way back to the foggy beginnings of an average Vermont town, the building blocks of the community stack up something like this: First came the church, and then the town hall, the one-room schoolhouse, the tavern, the harness shop, the blacksmith, the itinerant traders and, last but not least, the general store.
Seven Days |
Kirk Kardashian |
08-08-2008 |
Nonfiction
A New Book Examines the Daring, Difficult Comic Artist Steve Ditkonew
Of Marvel's big three, Stan Lee, and artists Jack Kirby and Ditko, Ditko is the one most often overlooked, something for which he himself is partly responsible. In many ways, however, he's the most fascinating, and certainly the most frustrating.
Montreal Mirror |
Rupert Bottenberg |
08-05-2008 |
Nonfiction
Jenny Block Refuses to Let Monogamy Ruin Her Marriagenew
In her new book, Open: Love, Sex, and Life in an Open Marriage, Block traces her path from monogamy to infidelity to polyamory, being in an intimate relationship with more than one person.
Baltimore City Paper |
Heather Harris |
08-05-2008 |
Nonfiction
Charles Lindbergh's Daughter Reflects on Turning 60 in Her New Memoirnew
In Reeve Lindbergh's new book Forward From Here, the youngest child of famed aviator Charles Lindbergh and author and aviatrix Anne Morrow Lindbergh writes of her life spent in the Northeast Kingdom, the "back to the land" movement that led her there, and the consequences -- both mundane and thrilling -- of turning 60.
Seven Days |
Matt Scanlon |
08-04-2008 |
Nonfiction
A Look at Who Lead Belly Was and Wasn'tnew
Lead Belly: A Life inPictures is not merely a picture book at all, but is rife with brilliant essays and era-specific memorabilia that portray the complexity of the man who just might be America's finest folksinger – because he sang anything and was no purist.
Shepherd Express |
Martin Jack Rosenblum |
08-01-2008 |
Nonfiction
Carrie Borzillo-Vrenna's Ultimate How-To for Budding Rock Chicksnew
Mrs. Chris Vrenna has composed a tome for women who fancy their boys scrawny, not brawny.
L.A. Weekly |
LINA LECARO |
08-01-2008 |
Excerpts
Haruki Murakami on Runningnew
Murakami's new book, What I Talk about When I Talk about Running, is such a memoir: Murakami here treats long-distance running as both a routine that has physically sustained him for more than 20 years, and a metaphor for his workhorse approach to writing.
The Portland Mercury |
Marjorie Skinner |
07-31-2008 |
Nonfiction
Victim, Not Vixennew
Evelyn Nesbit biographer Paula Uruburu makes a convincing case that sexual naïveté plus parental abandonment aggravated by an unearned notoriety based on looks alone added up to certain doom for the most beautiful woman in the world.
Boston Phoenix |
Clif Garboden |
07-31-2008 |
Nonfiction
'Dime Novel Desperadoes' Captures All the Romance, Grit of the Old Westnew
Like the James brothers, the Maxwells were transformed in popular culture from reviled cold-blooded killers to daring desperadoes in the popular dime novels of the era. Then, unlike the James gang, they were mostly forgotten -- until now.
Illinois Times |
Roland Klose |
07-31-2008 |
Nonfiction
Stephen Singular on Mormon Polygamist Warren Jeffsnew
His current book details the rise of Warren Jeffs, the leader of the FLDS, who was convicted on two counts of being an accomplice to rape for forcing a 14-year-old girl to marry her 19-year-old cousin.
Colorado Springs Independent |
Jill Thomas |
07-29-2008 |
Nonfiction
'Life' Photographer Bill Eppridge Remembers the Bobby Kennedy Campaignnew
"My job was to see, not to hear," writes Eppridge in his recently released coffee-table book A Time It Was: Bobby Kennedy in the Sixties, a crisp, informative collection of magnificent color and black-and-white photographs of perhaps one of the most exciting presidential campaigns in American history, up to this most recent season.
Baltimore City Paper |
Blaine Taylor |
07-29-2008 |
Nonfiction
Lily Koppel's Quest to Return a Diarynew
While reading the diary, Koppel discovered a vivacious, curious young woman growing up in New York during the tail end of the 1920s who was constantly searching for an identity and questioning her thoughts and emotions.
Baltimore City Paper |
Josh Marx |
07-29-2008 |
Nonfiction
Michael Chabon Examines the Marginsnew
Chabon chose the dynamic, in-between spaces as the subject of his first nonfiction essay collection, Maps and Legends.
Baltimore City Paper |
Heather Harris |
07-29-2008 |
Nonfiction
'Somebody Scream!' Revisits the Stakes of Early Rapnew
In Reeves' reckoning, rap began to fill the void left by a shrinking black-power movement in the late 1970s and early ’80s.
Baltimore City Paper |
Raymond Cummings |
07-29-2008 |
Nonfiction
