AltWeeklies Wire
The Wild, Wild Questnew
Previous explorers have pretty much screwed the adventure-book genre, yet whatever inspired explorers before still inspires them, as evidenced by these books.
East Bay Express |
Anneli Rufus |
07-25-2007 |
Books
Authors Train Their Sights on Siblingsnew
This is the year authors ran out of stuff to say about themselves and started in on the next best thing: siblings.
East Bay Express |
Anneli Rufus |
06-20-2007 |
Books
'My So-Called Punk' News and Analysisnew
Green Day, Operation Ivy, and Rancid's place in Matt Diehl's new CliffsNotes of Punk.
East Bay Express |
David Downs |
05-16-2007 |
Nonfiction
Tags: Matt Diehl, My So-Called Punk
Don't Call it Sci-finew
Catbird Publishing wants to turn real Bay Area science into high-tech thrillers, and real scientists into novelists.
East Bay Express |
Kara Platoni |
04-05-2007 |
Books
Read the Novel, Then Update the Wikinew
Meet the man in charge of the effort to decode all the hidden signs and clues in Thomas Pynchon's latest.
East Bay Express |
Chris Thompson |
12-08-2006 |
Books
How to Wash Brainsnew
2, 4, 6, 8, who can I indoctrinate?
East Bay Express |
Anneli Rufus |
10-26-2006 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
One Blowhard Down, Plenty to Gonew
The outing of Ann Coulter as a likely plagiarist by professor John Barrie's scanning software could help usher in a new era of author accountability.
East Bay Express |
Chris Thompson |
07-17-2006 |
Books
I Wrote a Book 'Bout Rock 'n' Rollnew
At long last, Dr. Frank steps onto the literary stage.
East Bay Express |
Rob Harvilla |
04-03-2006 |
Fiction
Tags: Frank Portman, King Dork
Born to Losenew
Born an untouchable, born into a culture that executes rape victims -- sometimes your heritage just hurts.
East Bay Express |
Anneli Rufus |
01-30-2006 |
Nonfiction
Tags: Ghazal Omid, Living in Hell
The Aeroplane Flies Highnew
Kim Cooper has taken the first real crack at unraveling the mystique of In the Aeroplane Over the Sea, the most influential indie-rock record of the past decade, in a tome for Continuum Books' immensely popular 33 1/3 series.
East Bay Express |
Rob Harvilla |
12-22-2005 |
Nonfiction
The Mystery of the Good Booknew
The librarian for the Judaica Collections at the University of California at Berkeley made a startling discovery when he looked at the circa-1548 volumes he'd purchased: Some parts appeared to be missing.
East Bay Express |
Justin Berton |
11-21-2005 |
Books
Christ Was Plastic, Amennew
Brendan Powell Smith tells Bible stories with LEGO, and his work receives acclaim even from the devout.
East Bay Express |
Anneli Rufus |
11-01-2005 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
Losing Their Religionnew
Sam Harris crusades against religion, but other recent religious-themed works strike a different tone.
East Bay Express |
Anneli Rufus |
11-01-2005 |
Books
Tags: Sam Harris, Julia Scheeres, The End of Faith, Anosh Irani, Arjen van der Kooij, Dogs of God, Doorway to Eternity, El Corazón de la Muerte, James Reston Jr., Jesus Land, Khaled Abou El Fadl, Last Night of a Damned Soul, Matthue Roth, Ramon Dekkers, Slimane Benaissa, The Cripple and His Talismans, The Great Theft, Wolf Dreams, Yasmina Khadra, Yom Kippur a Go-Go
How Can You Laugh?new
With their embarrassing confessions, a new breed of authors begs to be humiliated.
East Bay Express |
Anneli Rufus |
10-10-2005 |
Books
Say What?new
Three books look at the way language shifts, unfolds and changes as people adopt ever more efficient ways of pronouncing words.
East Bay Express |
Anneli Rufus |
06-27-2005 |
Nonfiction
