AltWeeklies Wire
It's Easy to Forget Violent Forces That Create Artnew
Kassten Alonso has translated the same techniques of ceramics into literature in Core: A Romance, a gorgeous, fractured novel about a homicidal sculptor of stone and ceramics.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Thomas Bell |
06-30-2005 |
Fiction
Tags: Core: A Romance, Kassten Alonso
Hollis Gillespie Disdains Shame With Recovering Slutnew
Gillespie's second book covers some of her early adventures in motherhood, including bullet-proofing the baby's bedroom with cake pans and getting diverted from a Nicaraguan brothel by the case of her daughter Mae's missing mittens.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Thomas Bell |
06-28-2005 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
Monkeys With Typewritersnew
A book of work by spoken-word poets at Atlanta's Java Monkey has corny confessions and ego-overblown self-expressions. But it doesn't hold up to the silent treatment it's given on the page.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Thomas Bell |
06-16-2005 |
Poetry
Tags: Poetry Reviews
Author Doesn't Apologize for Wal-Martnew
John Dicker is refreshing for his willingness to hold everyone's feet to the fire -- CEOs, customers and critics alike. He calls Wal-Mart "a macro-sized microcosm of many of America's biggest socioeconomic clusterfucks."
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Thomas Bell |
06-09-2005 |
Nonfiction
Author Writes Admiringly About Americanew
Verso has come out with an updated edition of V.G. Kiernan's multidisciplinary history of America, from colonial days forward.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Thomas Bell |
06-02-2005 |
Nonfiction
Book Has Plenty of Requisite Wild Flourishesnew
The People of Paper's dispelling of magic realism is plenty funny and as exhilaratingly freeform as the best of the McSweeney's canon.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Thomas Bell |
05-26-2005 |
Fiction
Author Suggests God Didn't Write Biblenew
Calling for the people of all faiths to "lift up what is our most precious gift," John Shelby Spong finds God alive and free -- and very much overlooked by those who keep their faith bound in a book.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Thomas Bell |
05-12-2005 |
Original Work
Novel Has Deep Shadows and Sharp Edgesnew
Novelist Joshilyn Jackson explains how she developed her odd blend of Southern humor and violence.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Thomas Bell |
05-05-2005 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
Good Read for a Day of Not Doing Muchnew
Atlanta author Patti Callahan Henry's novel is the story of a middle-aged Buckhead woman who suddenly realizes that she's faking her way through life and rushes off to find her true unedited self at ... the beach!
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Thomas Bell |
04-28-2005 |
Fiction
Ode to the Insurance Salesmannew
In his best moments, Ted Kooser inspires a kind of voluptuous rumination. He is an exquisite miniaturist of daily life and Delight & Shadows is his junk shop elegy. You'll recognize what's on sale and how it smells.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Thomas Bell |
04-21-2005 |
Poetry
Tags: Ted Kooser, Delights & Shadows
Author Steve Almond Chows Down Againnew
Steve Almond's new collection includes an entire family of yacht-club-credentialed Republicans, convinced they have all been abducted and implanted with "cartridges" by our alien caretakers; an analysis of the meaning of Michael Jackson's dick; and the pleasures of equine and eye socket sex.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Thomas Bell |
04-07-2005 |
Fiction
How America Almost Destroyed the Vineyards of Europenew
The Americans (probably) didn't do it on purpose, though you hardly could have blamed them given all the nasty things the Europeans were saying about New World wines and the American palate.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Thomas Bell |
03-31-2005 |
Nonfiction
Secret Index Gives Peek at Fonda Memoirnew
Review copies of Fonda's book have not been made available to the press, but Creative Loafing's Bureau of Imaginary Journalism has uncovered this facsimile of the book's index, which provides intriguing hints of its contents.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Curt Holman |
03-31-2005 |
Nonfiction
Tags: Jane Fonda, My Life So Far
Message Offers Good Plan for Revival in Big Tentnew
In her funny, vulnerable meditations on living a meaningful life in the midst of trials and sorrows -- many of which she blames on Dubya Bush and his disciples -- Anne Lamott is not afraid to reference a wise word or two from Rumi, the Dali Lama, or the Catholic vision of the Virgin Mary.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Thomas Bell |
03-17-2005 |
Nonfiction
Travelogue Mixes Pocket Histories With Political Riffsnew
Its focus is the Sahel, a 2,600-mile swath of African desert and badlands that stretches from Ethiopia to the Atlantic coast, and is home to some of the most impoverished, corrupt and - Sudan notwithstanding - ignored countries on the planet.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Thomas Bell |
03-10-2005 |
Nonfiction
Tags: Angry Wind, Jeffrey Tayler
