AltWeeklies Wire
Learning from Enriquenew
A journalist joins the immigrant trains to gain perspective on a divisive issue.
San Francisco Bay Guardian |
David G. Crockett |
12-19-2007 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Enrique's Journey, Sonia Nazario
Top Ten: The Year in Booksnew
The best argument for the future survival of the book is that writers might want to see a physical manifestation of their work. Call it ego, call it reductive reasoning, call it misplaced Marxist ideals about seeing an actual product produced by their labors, but books-as-objects are just nice to have around. If that makes us Luddites, so be it.
Baltimore City Paper |
Staff |
12-18-2007 |
Books
Enter Rothnew
Philip Roth discusses his alter ego Nathan Zuckerman, the appeal of biography, and the perils of age.
Isthmus |
Steve Paulson |
12-17-2007 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Exit Ghost, Philip Roth
Buy Some Stuff, Enslave Somebodynew
In Nobodies, John Bowe aims to make explicit the connection between the rise of the global market and the growing number of people throughout the world living in poverty, doomed to spend their lives providing goods and services for people born into wealthier circumstances.
The Texas Observer |
Josh Rosenblatt |
12-17-2007 |
Nonfiction
Matt Taibbi on How the U.S. Is Like Ike Turnernew
Taibbi has single-handedly brought Rolling Stone to a place of political relevance not seen since the days of Hunter S. Thompson. His new book is a compendium of his best pieces since joining the magazine in 2005.
L.A. Weekly |
Matthew Fleischer |
12-14-2007 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
'Young Stalin': Georgia Rulenew
New biography shows the wild west underground education of a future dictator.
Baltimore City Paper |
John Barry |
12-11-2007 |
Nonfiction
Mitchell Bard is Bullish on Israel's Futurenew
"If you look at all Jewish history, lots of empires tried to destroy the state," says the scholar. "Where are these empires now? Most of them are gone, but you will find the Jews and the state of Israel."
Boulder Weekly |
Wayne Laugesen |
12-10-2007 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
You Are No Ladynew
Donald McCaig has taken on the task of channeling Margaret Mitchell's world by writing a $4.5 million sequel to Gone With the Wind. Spoiler alert! The North still wins.
Style Weekly |
Valley Haggard |
12-06-2007 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
Talk To Hernew
LaShonda Barnett has written a treasure trove of raw emotion from some of jazz and soul's greatest black scribes so bare in nature that it can pack a reality shock to devotees.
Orlando Weekly |
Justin Strout |
12-06-2007 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
Sharply Drawn Journalismnew
Cumulus Press combines reportage with comics to take a look at the mining industry.
Montreal Mirror |
Christopher Hazou |
12-03-2007 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
Pressuring the Pressnew
In Reporting the War: Freedom of the Press from the American Revolution to the War on Terrorism, John Byrne Cooke tracks press influence on public opinion from the rabble rousing of the Revolutionary War–era Massachusetts Spy to anti-Bush rants of today's alt press.
Boston Phoenix |
Adam Reilly |
11-29-2007 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
MAD Magazine Heads to the Librarynew
If only they'd had crystal balls, the juvenile delinquents who read MAD Magazine in the '50s could have blown the ever-lovin' minds of the moms who begged them to stop: "Ma," they'd taunt, "Someday this stuff is gonna be bound up in hardback and shelved in college libraries!"
San Antonio Current |
John DeFore |
11-28-2007 |
Books
Mississippi's CIA Connectionnew
This story of the CIA reads more like a thriller than a history book.
Jackson Free Press |
James L. Dickerson |
11-28-2007 |
Nonfiction
Shelf Helpnew
Books to get you through the holidays -- and ready for a new year.
San Francisco Bay Guardian |
Amanda Davidson |
11-28-2007 |
Books
Reading Between the Ancient Linesnew
William Noel oversees a collection of thousands of books, including some 850 medieval manuscripts and 1,500 of the earliest printed books, but one in particular has been monopolizing his time since its arrival in 1999 -- a one-of-a-kind copy of the work of Archimedes.
Baltimore City Paper |
Chris Landers |
11-27-2007 |
Books
