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Lee on Literature: The Spider's Housenew
The roots of turmoil currently blooming in Syria and other nations of the Arab Spring are carefully explored in The Spider's House.
Santa Fe Reporter |
Lee Miller |
06-08-2012 |
Fiction
A Summer Reading List for 2012new
New books from Richard Ford, Padgett Powell, Jess Walter, and others round out these beach read picks.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Wyatt Williams |
05-15-2012 |
Books
Angry Man Buzz Bissinger Writes Heartwrenching Memoir About His Sonnew
"I first saw him through the window of a hospital operation room," writes Bissinger. "Doctors and nurses surrounded him in a tight circle. He was a bloody quiver in their hands."
Philadelphia Weekly |
Tara Murtha |
05-09-2012 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Buzz Bissinger
Poetry is Not Dead, It's Eternalnew
An interview with D. A. Powell, Jonathan Galassi and the last unpublished poem by Allen Grossman.
Planet Jackson Hole |
Richard Abowitz |
05-04-2012 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
Do Locavores Suck at Math?new
"An Economist Gets Lunch" offers clever insights (and a little locavore bashing).
LEO Weekly |
J. Christian Walsh |
04-27-2012 |
Nonfiction
A Strong Case for Legal Weednew
When Juárez cartel gangster Jose Antonio "El Diego" Acosta Hernandez was arrested last summer he had an estimated 1,500 murders under his belt operating in a city where violent death comes fast and furious.
San Antonio Current |
Greg Harman |
02-16-2012 |
Nonfiction
Gil Scott-Heron: The Last Holiday: A Memoirnew
Gil Scott-Heron’s memoir isn’t intimate, but it casts him in a new light nevertheless.
Baltimore City Paper |
Pierre Bennu |
01-18-2012 |
Nonfiction
Tags: Gil Scott-Heron
The Truth About On The Roadnew
In his latest book, Gerald Nicosia has unlocked the dynamic of Jack Kerouac and Neal Cassady, and not a moment too soon.
Random Lengths News |
Lionel Rolfe |
01-02-2012 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
The Three Most Absorbing Books of 2011new
Wyatt Williams lists his most compelling reads of the year.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Wyatt Williams |
12-28-2011 |
Books
Books for Cooksnew
Volumes of food porn, kitchen science and gastronomic philosophy that earn their place on the shelf.
Orlando Weekly |
Jessica Bryce Young |
12-22-2011 |
Nonfiction
Endpapers: Winter Readingnew
Some cool books for the coming season.
The Memphis Flyer |
The Flyer Staff |
12-01-2011 |
Books
The Whore of Akronnew
A displaced Clevelander honors his hometown by stalking the man who spurned it.
Cleveland Scene |
Scott Raab |
11-09-2011 |
Excerpts
Pete Dexter Lets It Bleednew
Hard at work on his eighth novel, the Deadwood author still packs a punch.
Seattle Weekly |
Ellis E. Conklin |
10-27-2011 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
Borders and Bridgesnew
Peter Laufer makes the case that the border wall is too much like the Berlin Wall.
Tucson Weekly |
Tim Hull |
10-17-2011 |
Nonfiction
