AltWeeklies Wire
Plunder, Pillage, and Profitnew
A provocative new book suggests big business could learn from young thieves.
Boston Phoenix |
Mike Miliard |
01-18-2008 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
Steve Martin: Philosopher in Bunny Earsnew
His just-published memoir, Born Standing Up, verifies what you always suspected -- Steve Martin never was your typical comedian.
Boston Phoenix |
James Parker |
01-04-2008 |
Nonfiction
Every Conceivable Foodnew
A new book by Harvard nutritionist sperm-and-eggheads suggests that your dietary choices can greatly improve your chances of getting pregnant.
Boston Phoenix |
Sara Faith Alterman |
12-20-2007 |
Nonfiction
Coffee-Table Madnessnew
How about $150 worth of cartoons by MAD magazine's Don Martin, or a high-rez peek at Japan's teen fashions, or a $45 dose of Herodotus, a $75 probe of Pixar Studios, or a survey of punk architecture. This is no ordinary gift-books selection.
Boston Phoenix |
Staff |
12-14-2007 |
Books
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
The Dirtiest Copnew
How the East Side, the West Side, and 42nd Street corrupted the 20th century.
Boston Phoenix |
Clif Garboden |
11-05-2007 |
Nonfiction
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
Easy Reading For Difficult Peoplenew
Stylistically, novelist Tom Perrotta is invisible, and his fictional milieu is half-dead. But we love him because he delivers so much.
Boston Phoenix |
James Parker |
10-10-2007 |
Fiction
Touched by Gracenew
On Andre Dubus's unending gifts.
Boston Phoenix |
Nina MacLaughlin |
09-27-2007 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
Tags: andre dubus
The 'Things' We Lovenew
Writers extol sacred objects of everyday use -- and uselessness -- in Taking Things Seriously and Evocative Objects.
Boston Phoenix |
Caitlin Curran |
09-27-2007 |
Nonfiction
Tags: Nonfiction Reviews
The Greatest Travels Ever Toldnew
Penguin's Great Journeys series excerpts the great texts of travel literature, from Herodotus to Ernest Shackleton, in 10 slender and beautifully designed paperback volumes.
Boston Phoenix |
James Parker |
09-27-2007 |
Nonfiction
Our Town?new
Keillor's new Lake Wobegon novel is the story of funeral ashes, a green bowling ball, a parasail, and the deceased's secret life. Don't be sad.
Boston Phoenix |
Jeffrey Gantz |
09-13-2007 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Garrison Keillor, Pontoon
Everybody Say 'Arrragh!'new
Being a brief but basically positive review of two new books about pirates.
Boston Phoenix |
Clif Garboden |
09-13-2007 |
Nonfiction
In Search of Kerouacnew
As we approach the first-edition anniversary of anti-luminary Jack Kerouac's On the Road, we stick out our thumb and ask: "Whither goest thou, America?" And a thoroughly Beat America answers: "Lowell." Plus a schedule of Kerouac celebrations.
Boston Phoenix |
James Parker |
08-30-2007 |
Books
Tags: Jack Kerouac, On the Road
Potter, Potter, Everywherenew
Harry Potter is Odysseus, Don Quijote, Huck Finn, Peter Pan, Elvis, Luke Skywalker, Michael Jordan, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, and Jesus Christ rolled into one, and his final chapter will signal the end of a way of life for millions of disciples.
Boston Phoenix |
Sharon Steel |
07-19-2007 |
Books
