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Don DeLillo's Slender Novel Shows Impressive Depthnew
If Underworld was an epic exploration of the political and cultural machinations of an entire era in American history, then Falling Man is a subtle snippet of said history, subversive in how it undermines exactly what we crave and expect from this popular chronicler of our country's highs and lows.
Baltimore City Paper |
Zak M. Salih |
09-11-2007 |
Fiction
Freebird!new
Mitch Myers might have done better to split The Boy Who Cried Freebird into two separate halves: one devoted to straightforward rock journalism and another for fiction-oriented CD reviews and tall tales best told over tallboys.
Baltimore City Paper |
Raymond Cummings |
09-11-2007 |
Fiction
'The Chess Machine' Turns into a Soap Operanew
In his historical novel, Löhr's got an opportunity to lard his story with ideas about technology, deception, or gamesmanship, he instead settles for breathless and unsophisticated daytime-drama shenanigans.
Baltimore City Paper |
Violet Glaze |
09-11-2007 |
Fiction
Luc Sante Sinks His Teeth into American Culturenew
The Sante on display in Kill All Your Darlings is the cultural critic; even the first-person essays that lead it off are much about the role society played into the author's early history.
Baltimore City Paper |
Michaelangelo Matos |
09-11-2007 |
Nonfiction
The Calvert Institute's George Liebmann Preaches Thinking Locallynew
The Trimmer's Almanac is a history of Baltimore's conservative think tank and includes articles that hash out policy problems and often move toward solutions.
Baltimore City Paper |
John Barry |
09-04-2007 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
'The Inheritance of Exile': Remade in Americanew
Susan Muaddi Darraj's short story collection explores the adult lives of immigrants' children.
Baltimore City Paper |
Joab Jackson |
08-28-2007 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
'Seeing Beyond' Goes Inside a Photog's Worst Nightmarenew
A profession that relies on vision would, in theory, be severely crippled by blindness, and it is with this deep-rooted fear in mind that photographer Tony Deifell approached Governor Morehead School for the Blind in 1992 to start an after-school photography club.
Baltimore City Paper |
Katherine M. Hill |
08-21-2007 |
Nonfiction
'Let's Spend' is a Ceaseless Cascade Of Clichesnew
No one expects A Farewell to Arms when picking up a book titled Let's Spend the Night Together, but you should expect more than what's offered here.
Baltimore City Paper |
Ed Schrader |
08-21-2007 |
Nonfiction
'The Interloper': Thoroughly Dark & Uncannily Disturbingnew
This debut novel may not make it into the literary canon, but it is definitely worth a close read -- Wilson has a promising career ahead of him.
Baltimore City Paper |
Anny Hoge |
08-21-2007 |
Fiction
Relative Stranger: The Other Einstein Biographynew
The man behind the icon in Neffe's new biography.
Baltimore City Paper |
Edward Ericson Jr. |
07-31-2007 |
Nonfiction
Let's Pray Each Presidential Candidate is Perusing 'Second Chance'new
Brzezinski soberly explains how the United States has cumulatively squandered its top-banana world's policeman status since the Cold War ended -- with increasingly dire results.
Baltimore City Paper |
Raymond Cummings |
07-03-2007 |
Nonfiction
'Later, at the Bar' Suffers from a Flat Narrative Arcnew
Barry's first novel is a series of interconnected short stories, each loosely based around regulars at an upstate New York dive.
Baltimore City Paper |
Joab Jackson |
07-03-2007 |
Fiction
'The Killing Jar': An Unsparing Account of a Disastrous Childhoodnew
Why is it that we take such joy in reading fiction about the degradation of children?
Baltimore City Paper |
Stephen Peterson |
07-03-2007 |
Fiction
Go Way Out With 'Space Opera'new
After falling on hack times in the 1970s, the space opera makes a comeback.
Baltimore City Paper |
Adrienne Martini |
07-03-2007 |
Fiction
Portraits of the Fundamentalist as a Young Mannew
Mohsin Hamid's The Reluctant Fundamentalist and Yasmina Khadra's The Sirens of Baghdad take on the challenge of sympathetically looking through the eyes of the inscrutable.
Baltimore City Paper |
Zak M. Salih |
06-26-2007 |
Fiction
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