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Miss O'Dell Dishes on Music Legendsnew
A new book by tour manager Chris O'Dell tells behind-the-scenes details of the '60s/'70s music world.
Tucson Weekly |
Gene Armstrong |
12-02-2009 |
Nonfiction
Gift Guide: Consider Placing Some Great Indie Books Underneath the Treenew
Unemployment is still too high, which means many people are struggling -- so why not buy your friends and loved ones books for the holidays? After all, books are cheap, and if things get desperate, they make great kindling once the power gets turned off!
Tucson Weekly |
Jarret Keene |
11-18-2009 |
Books
Tags: Books, Gift Guide
Barbara Kingsolver Makes a Misstep as She Tries to Make Her Point in 'The Lacuna'new
Kingsolver has created a reserved, unassuming character in Harrison Shepherd. He's so unassuming, in fact, that he becomes a cipher. Kingsolver's trademark nuanced characterization is not well-served by this collaged point of view.
Tucson Weekly |
Christine Wald-Hopkins |
11-11-2009 |
Fiction
'Sweet Smell' is an Intimate Portrait of a Distinctive Tohono O'odham Artistnew
In the affecting, beautifully illustrated oral history of the local artist's life and work, The Sweet Smell of Home: The Life and Art of Leonard F. Chana, his distinctive voice is paired with his even more distinctive art to create a very intimate portrait of Chana, who died of neurocysticercosis in 2004 at the criminally young age of 54.
Tucson Weekly |
Tim Hull |
10-29-2009 |
Nonfiction
'A New Deal for Native Art' Explains How the Gov't Undermined Indigenous Art During the New Dealnew
Jennifer McLerran makes the case that administrators of New Deal Indian policy, particularly John Collier, then-commissioner of Indian Affairs, insisted on romanticizing pre-industrial forms of indigenous art rather than pushing native artists toward self-sufficiency.
Tucson Weekly |
Jarret Keene |
10-29-2009 |
Nonfiction
'Putrefaction Live' Looks at Paradoxes on the Reznew
Warren Perkins' new novel is worthwhile for its authentic feel, although the plot development is a bit sketchy.
Tucson Weekly |
Christine Wald-Hopkins |
10-15-2009 |
Fiction
Connecting Indie-Media Dotsnew
Democracy Now! host Amy Goodman hits the road to promote her new book.
Tucson Weekly |
Hank Stephenson |
04-23-2009 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
Mexico's Just Coffee Raises the Bar for Free Tradenew
The simple idea of Just Coffee was to help farmers in at least one Chiapas village make enough money so that they could stay on their land. Today, that idea is a success story; the community of Salvador Urbina is thriving rather than just surviving, and Just Coffee's concept promises to revolutionize the free-trade movement.
Tucson Weekly |
Tim Vanderpool |
04-16-2009 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
'Best of Contemporary Mexican Fiction' Introduces Readers to Living Writers from Across the Bordernew
Chances are that a recognizable literary talent is already dead. This is the challenge that confronts a book like Best of Contemporary Mexican Fiction. It features 16 writers, all of whom still walk the Earth.
Tucson Weekly |
Jarret Keene |
04-08-2009 |
Fiction
Death Threats Be Damned, an Undercover Cop Isn't Running Anymorenew
At 47, his house gone from an arsonist's match, his family badly shaken by their 3 a.m. escape, undercover cop Jay Dobyns is watching his back against outlaws sworn to kill him.
Tucson Weekly |
Leo W, Banks |
02-05-2009 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
Small-Press Books: Reading for Real Peoplenew
As the unemployment rate rises and your friends find themselves out of work, why not comfort them with some small-press books this holiday season?
Tucson Weekly |
Jarret Keene |
11-20-2008 |
Books
'Powder' Compiles the Stories of Female Soldiersnew
This collection of short stories and poems, which will be available for purchase beginning on Nov. 11 -- Veterans Day -- was published by Kore Press, a Tucson publication company dedicated to making women's literary voices heard.
Tucson Weekly |
Megan Neighbor |
11-06-2008 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
Stella Pope Duarte Fights Femicide with Her Latest Booknew
When Duarte learned about the serial mutilation and murder of more than 400 young women in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, since 1993, she knew she could not ignore it -- so she began If I Die in Juárez.
Tucson Weekly |
Kate Saavedra |
07-24-2008 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
Deanne Stillman Explains What Happened to the West's Horsesnew
Mustang: The Saga of the Wild Horse in the American West provides a detailed history of the horse and our treatment of the animal -- from its evolution on the North American continent to its scant existence today.
Tucson Weekly |
Irene Messina |
06-11-2008 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
Lawrence A. Weinstein Explores the Essence of Grammarnew
Grammar for the Soul points out that simple words can have awesome power.
Tucson Weekly |
Irene Messina |
05-07-2008 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
