AltWeeklies Wire
Boise Author Prepares to Let Loose His Second Novelnew
Writer and Boise State University professor Brady Udall talks about his new book, how he was discovered and the life of polygamists.
Boise Weekly |
Christian Winn |
05-27-2009 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
In Charlottesville and Elsewhere, Verse Remains Vital, Local and Freenew
Most people think Americans don't really do the poetry thing. We might do the Hollywood thing, the tech thing, the nation-building thing, and (at least until this year) the high finance thing. But not that poetry thing. Ah, but we do. We just don’t know it.
C-Ville Weekly |
Sam Witt |
05-27-2009 |
Books
Colm Toibin's New Novel Is Quiet and Thankfully Unsentimentalnew
Brooklyn is a quiet, charming novel written with a masterful hand about a girl struggling to understand her new emerging self in a new postwar world.
New Haven Advocate |
John Stoehr |
05-19-2009 |
Fiction
For Scholar, Measuring Worth Must Weigh the Value of Caring Worknew
In The Real Wealth of Nations, Riane Eisler picks up where Adam Smith left off. Smith left out the market's REAL operators: the women who produce most of the caring services of our societies.
Pasadena Weekly |
Ellen Snortland |
05-18-2009 |
Nonfiction
Milwaukee Marched for Justicenew
Anyone living in Milwaukee in the '60s and old enough to be aware will recall a time of sharp tension. This story is recounted with lucid scholarship in The Selma of the North: Civil Rights Insurgency in Milwaukee.
Shepherd Express |
David Luhrssen |
05-15-2009 |
Nonfiction
'The Missing' Takes a Lyrical Turn in the Southnew
Tim Gautreaux writes of a South that never changes. But for the people of his third novel, a new age is dawning.
Boston Phoenix |
Clea Simon |
05-14-2009 |
Fiction
For John Gibler, the Conquest of Mexico Never Ended and Neither Did the Revoltsnew
Part journalistic travelogue, part political manifesto, Mexico Unconquered recounts some of the more bewildering revolts and upheavals that have roiled Southern Mexico from the turn of the 20th century through contemporary times.
The Texas Observer |
Liliana Valenzuela |
05-13-2009 |
Nonfiction
A Very Well-Behaved Record of Fearless Womennew
Laurel Thatcher Ulrich provides a window through which to view the social injustices faced by three of history's famous women. Just don't be surprised if their struggles look a lot like our own.
Jackson Free Press |
Brandi Herrera Pfrehm |
05-11-2009 |
Nonfiction
Katherine Dunn's New Book Collects the Best of Her Essays on Boxingnew
Renowned Portland author Katherine Dunn talks to the Mercury about the unjustly maligned sport of boxing.
The Portland Mercury |
Marjorie Skinner |
05-07-2009 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
Alabama Novelist Visits the 'Devil's Garden'new
Ace Atkins found a compelling subject for his new fact-based novel, Devil's Garden, in the murder trial of silent film comic Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle in 1921.
Birmingham Weekly |
Jesse Chambers |
05-05-2009 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
A 'Graphic History' of Intellectual Delinquencynew
This graphic anthology of "Beats" biographies mostly tells the intertwining stories of Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg and William S. Burroughs, featuring those written by alternative comics king, Harvey Pekar.
Jackson Free Press |
Darren Schwindaman |
04-24-2009 |
Nonfiction
'If I Could Choose Yesterday'new
In his memoir, Bill Miles provides an astute life-long observer's view of pivotal historic events in the Magnolia State and the politics that make up Mississippi.
Jackson Free Press |
Jere Nash |
04-24-2009 |
Nonfiction
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
Bloody Good Jane Austennew
Despite his decidedly lowbrow preoccupations (zombies, martial arts, and crude jokes about balls), author Seth Grahame-Smith is a sly devil, a parodist with as strong a sense of Austen's prose stylings as of her sharp observations.
Boston Phoenix |
Clea Simon |
04-23-2009 |
Fiction
Considering Dominique Green, Capital Punishment, and Justicenew
Dominique Green's execution and short life--he was arrested, convicted, and sent to Death Row at age 18--is the subject of popular history writer Thomas Cahill's remarkable new book.
Baltimore City Paper |
Michael Corbin |
04-21-2009 |
Nonfiction
