AltWeeklies Wire
Joshua Henkin's Novel 'Matrimony' Celebrates the Writing Lifenew
"Although Matrimony isn't autobiographical, it's about things that are close to me," the author asserts. "It's about the writing life."
East Bay Express |
Anneli Rufus |
10-22-2008 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Joshua Henkin, Matrimony
The Shelf Life of the Presidential Mindnew
Come January, whoever occupies the West Wing needs to read, and widely so, for there is no better way to come to grips with the forces transforming the Western landscape, natural and human.
The Texas Observer |
Char Miller |
10-22-2008 |
Books
Eels Frontman Writes Inspirational Autobiographynew
From the deaths of his entire immediate family to his struggles and accomplishments in the music industry, Mark Oliver Everett, aka E of the rock band Eels, details it all in his autobiography Things the Grandchildren Should Know.
Creative Loafing (Charlotte) |
Anita Overcash |
10-21-2008 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
'Bordertown' Depicts True Life and History on the Mexican Bordernew
With Bordertown, Gusky and Johnson intend to provide a historical and cultural narrative that seems to be missing from contemporary conflicts.
Dallas Observer |
Megan Feldman |
10-20-2008 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
Much-Praised Legal Thriller 'A Cure for Night' Traffics in Stereotypesnew
A large number of the characters in Justin Peacock's book are African–American. The plot pivots around them. There is no story without them. If they read as caricatures -- and offensive ones, at that -- how can this book be successful?
Philadelphia Weekly |
Liz Spikol |
10-20-2008 |
Fiction
Critical Mass Guru Chris Carlsson Lives to Overthrow Moneynew
His new book, Nowtopia: How Pirate Programmers, Outlaw Bicyclists And Vacant-Lot Gardeners Are Inventing The Future Today, looks at "work that matters and is done well."
NOW Magazine |
Mike Smith |
10-17-2008 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
Ron Rash Hits the Jackpot with 'Serena'new
Blood, greed, history and hubris blend and bump together in powerful, explosive combinations in Rash's new novel, Serena.
Creative Loafing (Charlotte) |
John Grooms |
10-16-2008 |
Fiction
'Famous Suicides' Takes on Love and Loss, in Chicago and Ancient Japannew
Mura's book takes as its epigraph Walter Benjamin's oft-repeated statement that history is a tale told by the victors, but the novel shows up this line as a lie. History belongs not to the winners but to the writers and the survivors, who never really win.
Willamette Week |
Matthew Korfhage |
10-16-2008 |
Fiction
Author Justin Catanoso Discovers His Family's Remarkable Legacynew
My Cousin the Saint is a reminder that the word "work" is as crucial as "miracle" in the phrases they share.
INDY Week |
Adam Sobsey |
10-16-2008 |
Nonfiction
The Tirelessly Prolific Laura Lippman Enters The Superstar Stage of Her Careernew
Lippman has reached Joyce Carol Oates proliferation levels lately.
Baltimore City Paper |
Wendy Ward |
10-14-2008 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
'The Soul of All Great Designs' Goes Off the Railsnew
Neil Bissoondath can really write, but in his latest novel he gets trapped by his own unworkable premise.
NOW Magazine |
Susan G. Cole |
10-14-2008 |
Fiction
The Worst Thing About 'Be Good' is That it's Too Shortnew
Though a cover blurb for Stacey May Fowles's first novel proclaims it to be essential reading for women in their 20s, Be Good is also essential for 20-something men.
NOW Magazine |
Jacob Scheier |
10-14-2008 |
Fiction
Jonathan Ames Plays an Anti-Superhero in the Graphic Novel 'The Alcoholic'new
The Alcoholic is destined to become a classic, and Ames owes a large part of this to the graphic skills of Dean Haspiel. There's something irresistibly resonant about Haspiel's style, especially in Jonathan A.'s early years as an ordinary self-loathing teen.
Montreal Mirror |
Juliet Waters |
10-10-2008 |
Fiction
America's Best Sportswriter Goes Deepnew
Forget the title. Labels are deceiving. Smith is not a sportswriter. He's a storyteller, a translator of human emotions.
Charleston City Paper |
John Strubel |
10-09-2008 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
Bill Kauffman Debunks the Myth of America's 'Town Drunk'new
The common thread running through Bill Kauffman's work is his admiration for the local in the face of the monolithic American empire.
Charleston City Paper |
Dylan Hales |
10-09-2008 |
Nonfiction
