AltWeeklies Wire
Death and the Poetnew
Nearing the end of a singular life, Ric Masten embraces the thing that will kill him.
Monterey County Weekly |
Mark C. Anderson |
03-08-2007 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Ric Masten
A Talk with Judy Stonenew
The respected journalist dishes her views on film, books, and imbeciles.
San Francisco Bay Guardian |
Sara Scheiron |
03-07-2007 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
Love, Lethem, Lovenew
The Fortress of Solitude author Jonathan Lethem writes a romance, kind of.
Chicago Newcity |
Tom Lynch |
03-07-2007 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
Power to the Cluelessnew
The politics of bisexuality aren't as complicated as you'd think.
Chicago Reader |
Noah Berlatsky |
03-06-2007 |
Nonfiction
The Author Your Chuch Doesn't Want You to Readnew
Leedom and co-author "Maria Murdy" try to bring unity to people of different religious faiths -- for this they will face the wrath of believers ... again.
OC Weekly |
Matt Coker |
03-05-2007 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
Tome Raider: Viva Octavia Butlernew
Why is she still known as "that black, female science fiction writer?"
Seattle Weekly |
Karla Starr |
03-05-2007 |
Books
America v. Bushnew
Former federal prosecutor Elizabeth de la Vega says she's got the goods to put Bush behind bars.
Pasadena Weekly |
Kevin Uhrich |
03-05-2007 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
Everybody Is All-Americannew
Andersen hasn't created something new in regard to the American historical novel, but he has presented it in a new (gas)light.
Washington City Paper |
Allen Barra |
03-02-2007 |
Fiction
Tags: Heyday, Kurt Andersen
Sex and Religion, Faith and Skepticismnew
Elif Shafak is part of a new generation of Turks who are taking the novel -- a form which came to them from the West -- and using it to reimagine their society from within.
Weekly Alibi |
John Freeman |
02-27-2007 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
Bill McKibben's Americanew
Unless you sought out something specifically to avoid it, whatever you're consuming right now probably came from somewhere pretty far away -- McKibben says this is what's wrong with America.
LEO Weekly |
Stephen George |
02-27-2007 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Bill McKibben, Deep Economy
Dr. Luntzenstein
In Words That Work, is Frank Luntz trying to kill the monster he created or just get people to stop calling him Orwellian?
The Inlander |
Ted S. McGregor Jr. |
02-23-2007 |
Nonfiction
Tags: Frank Luntz, Words That Work
Pressing the Issuenew
Gene Roberts talks about The Race Beat, a protracted inquiry into the purposes of journalism, a probing social and cultural history, and a meditation on the value of "objectivity."
Boston Phoenix |
Adam Reilly |
02-22-2007 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
Rhyme & Rhythmnew
Director Stephen Gyllenhaal makes the jump from filmmaker to wordsmith in his debut collection of poetry.
Boulder Weekly |
Vince Darcangelo |
02-20-2007 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
No Shame in Slaughternew
Turkish scholar Taner Akcam confronts the 1915 massacre of Armenians as his native country continues to deny it.
Montreal Mirror |
Stefan Christoff |
02-16-2007 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
Tags: A Shameful Act, Taner Akcam
'I'm Here'new
An ex-child soldier's discusses his trip from Sierra Leone's war to a Starbucks bookshelf.
Willamette Week |
James Pitkin |
02-15-2007 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
