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Alberto Manguel on Optimismnew
The anthologist, essayist, and translator argues that in stories we can find our salvation.
The Georgia Straight |
John Burns |
10-12-2007 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Alberto Manguel, The City of Words
Brit Witsnew
As Nick Hornby and Irvine Welsh face 50, two of Brit Lit's standard-bearers stare down middle age in very different ways.
Boston Phoenix |
Mike Miliard |
10-11-2007 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
Finally, a Reason for America to Learn to Readnew
Just as The Colbert Report is an offshoot of The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, Colbert's book is best read as a companion volume to Stewart&Co.'s 2004 bestseller America (The Book): A Guide to Democracy Inaction.
Willamette Week |
Ian Gillingham |
10-10-2007 |
Nonfiction
John Grisham Sued for Libelnew
Prosecutor and investigator not happy with The Innocent Man, the author's nonfiction debut.
C-Ville Weekly |
Scott Weaver |
10-10-2007 |
Books
Blaine Taylor's Bunker Mentalitynew
As Ken Burns' latest monolith airs on PBS, a Maryland writer shows human side of different front.
Baltimore City Paper |
John Barry |
10-09-2007 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
Journalism in the Twilight Zonenew
In Off the Record, Norman Pearlstine tells his version of the leak-and-smear campaign to out CIA covert agent Valerie Plame, while looking at the current problems with Washington journalism.
The Texas Observer |
Myra Macpherson |
10-05-2007 |
Nonfiction
'The Big Con' Examines the GOP's Crackpot E-Con 101new
Alan Greenspan's The Age of Turbulence may have been getting all the publishing headlines lately, but Jonathan Chait's book is actually more noteworthy in its analysis of the Republican economic revolution of the last three decades.
Port Folio Weekly |
Jim Newsom |
10-04-2007 |
Nonfiction
David Sedaris Is Taking Notesnew
While we're still months away from pulling out our Christmas tree, David Sedaris is sitting at his home in Paris, wrapping presents. The popular humorist will be stateside for a month as he tours the country with nightly readings of fresh material with his notoriously nasal, yet powdered delivery.
Charleston City Paper |
Greg Hambrick |
10-03-2007 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
Tags: David Sedaris, NPR
The Big Read Programs Wants You to Read One Booknew
According to a report entitled Reading at Risk: A Survey of Literary Reading in America, issued by the National Endowment for the Arts, reading in America -- literary reading, in the form of novels, short stories, poetry, and plays -- is declining dramatically.
The Memphis Flyer |
Leonard Gill |
10-02-2007 |
Books
Alice Walker Opens Children's Eyes to Realities of Warnew
Kids and grownups everywhere are lucky Harper Collins was willing to print Why War is Never a Good Idea's thought-provoking eloquence.
Weekly Alibi |
Marisa Demarco |
10-02-2007 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
Are Dan Clowes' Graphic Novels 'Borderline Pornography'?new
Apparently in Guilford, Ct., they are.
New Haven Advocate |
Christopher Arnott |
10-02-2007 |
Books
Stuart Dybek, the Budding Geniusnew
Can the 65-year-old silence critics who say the MacArthur Foundation picks authors who are over the hill?
Chicago Reader |
Deanna Isaacs |
10-01-2007 |
Books
Mark Z. Danielewski Frustrates Critics, Dyslexicsnew
Depending on who you ask, Mark Z. Danielewski's House of Leaves is either the greatest literary achievement since Finnegans Wake, or a hopelessly pretentious gimmick -- his latest book, Only Revolutions, widens the divide even more
Dig Boston |
Mark Baumer |
09-27-2007 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
Lomborg Tells Climate-Change Worrywarts to Chillaxnew
Cool It is more of a distraction than a contribution at a time when environmentalists should be busy promoting solutions, not debunking the carefully crafted fables of Lomborg's dollar-driven theses.
San Francisco Bay Guardian |
Amanda Witherell |
09-26-2007 |
Nonfiction
Jennifer Worick: Seattle's Busiest Author?new
Worick has little patience for authors trying to crank out the Great American Novel; she's too busy getting published — about 20 books, by her count, over the past half-dozen years.
Seattle Weekly |
Brian Miller |
09-25-2007 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
