AltWeeklies Wire
'Powder' Compiles the Stories of Female Soldiersnew
This collection of short stories and poems, which will be available for purchase beginning on Nov. 11 -- Veterans Day -- was published by Kore Press, a Tucson publication company dedicated to making women's literary voices heard.
Tucson Weekly |
Megan Neighbor |
11-06-2008 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
Poet Patrick Herron's Alter Ego Offers Up a Quirky Collectionnew
Whether the poem concerns a puppet longing to get the words right in love letters or a coded numerolanguage, at their core these verses seem to grapple with our very human programming.
Diane Wilson's Memoir of Her Fundamentalist Upbringing is a Delightnew
Holy Roller: Growing Up in the Church of the Knock Down, Drag Out; Or, How I Quit Loving a Blue-Eyed Jesus describes Wilson's Pentecostal upbringing in a tiny fishing town in Texas, where residents were ruled by poverty, labor, elaborate religious mores, and corrupt authorities.
The Texas Observer |
Emily DePrang |
11-06-2008 |
Nonfiction
Henry H. Neff's Fantasy Fiction for Kids Mixes Magic, Mythology and Fearnew
Although comparisons to the Harry Potter books are inevitable, Neff points out that his series isn't "defined solely by spells and wizardry."
East Bay Express |
Anneli Rufus |
11-06-2008 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
'The Wasted Vigil' Offers a Hopeful Tragedynew
Wasted Vigil is not a book about Afghanistan, but of love. Author Nadeem Aslam creates a romantic and hopeful tragedy, where the odds more often than not overcome his characters. And yet, no amount of tragedy and suffering can eradicate the hope that continues to persist.
Charleston City Paper |
Augustine Kim |
11-05-2008 |
Fiction
'Scratch Beginnings' is Kind, Compassionate, and Naivenew
Instead of challenging his beliefs, Shepard's descent into poverty only adds to the already vexing verisimilitudes of poverty. Instead of offering insight into what he experienced and what that means to others like him, Shepard offers a book dazed by reality and confused by how to respond to it.
Charleston City Paper |
John Stoehr |
11-05-2008 |
Nonfiction
Savannah Knoop: Living Without LeRoynew
With her new memoir, the literary co-hoaxer steps out of JT LeRoy's shadow. But can she step out of Laura Albert's?
SF Weekly |
Jonathan Kiefer |
11-05-2008 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
Loren Estleman: The Guy Who Isn't Elmore Leonardnew
A glimpse into the life of Michigan's other -- and quite prolific -- crime writer. This year alone, the 56-year-old Estleman published one book of photography, three novels and slews of short fiction.
Metro Times |
Odell Waller |
11-04-2008 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
'The B List' Celebrates The So-Called Lower Rung of Auteursnew
If you're looking for a guide through film's funkier tributaries, this is intellectual criticism written with the urgency of a fan juiced to share some odd object of infatuation with a world that likely missed it the first time around.
Baltimore City Paper |
Jess Harvell |
11-04-2008 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
Deanne Stillman's 'Mustang' is Heartbreaking and Enragingnew
Mustang: The Saga of the Wild Horse in the American West is an exhaustively researched, eloquently written wake-up call.
Pasadena Weekly |
Bliss |
11-04-2008 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
'Red Dog' is Truly a Poet's Novelnew
I love it when poets take on a sprawling narrative, plumping up sentences with images so striking you feel like taking out your highlighter.
NOW Magazine |
Zoe Whittall |
11-03-2008 |
Fiction
'Through Black Spruce' is a Muscular Novel Worthy of All the Hypenew
Joseph Boyden's second novel is stunning at being a million things at once, but at heart it's a page-turning campfire story told by one person to another in hushed tones, heartbeat to heartbeat.
NOW Magazine |
Zoe Whittall |
11-03-2008 |
Fiction
The Terkel Rules: Translating from Speech to Prosenew
Terkel's books consist of tape-recorded conversations with mostly common people; after a brief introduction from Terkel, each text unspools almost seamlessly, with only an occasional nudge from the questioner. But here's the thing: most people don't talk that way.
Chicago Reader |
Michael Lenehan |
11-03-2008 |
Books
Author Geoff Nicholson Gets Pedestriannew
The Lost Art of Walking explores the creative fuel for history's greatest thinkers.
L.A. Weekly |
Matthew Fleischer |
10-31-2008 |
Nonfiction
Ed McClanahan's Memoir is Generous and Irreverentnew
Formally meticulous and thematically irreverent, O the Clear Moment is a loose collection of autobiographical pieces in which McClanahan reflects on an idyllic childhood in small-town Kentucky, chronicles the successes and humiliations of high school, and opens a few small but well-placed windows onto his adult eccentricities.
The Portland Mercury |
Alison Hallett |
10-31-2008 |
Nonfiction
