AltWeeklies Wire
'The Air We Breathe' Blends Science, History & Political Allegorynew
Communities are fragile and corruptible things, but Barrett is building, book by book, a stronger, closer, brighter and better one than ours.
Mike Sager's New Journalism Fills 'Donut Boys'new
Sager gives frontline reports on everything from the rapper Ice Cube to expat Vietnam vets in Thailand to suburban-Maryland Tupperware saleswomen.
INDY Week |
Adam Sobsey |
09-27-2007 |
Nonfiction
Professor Works Out His Salvation Through NASCARnew
Here is what many nonbelievers see when they glimpse a NASCAR race on television: A bunch of billboards on wheels turning left at insane speeds, perpetrating unconscionable air and noise pollution and pointless death, and wasting an increasingly precious natural resource.
INDY Week |
Adam Sobsey |
09-20-2007 |
Nonfiction
The South Through Two Booksnew
New Stories from the South, edited by Edward P. Jones, features fiction stories reveal the South may be just like the rest of the U.S. But James L. Peacock's Grounded Globalism argues that the South's identity helps it interact with the rest of the world.
'The Big Beautiful': Reach the Beachnew
Above all, Duncan's authentic writing and character exploration allow us to believe in Cassandra's emotional journey from feckless bride to a mature woman who follows her heart while taking physical and emotional risks.
Don't Judge this Book by its Whimsical Covernew
Wallace's fourth novel has a grim worldview -- remember, it may be dedicated to children, yet it isn't a children's book.
A Metaphysical Evening with Rebecca Stottnew
Stott is an academic -- she teaches creative writing and her first book was about Darwin's study of barnacles -- but during our tete-a-tete, she revealed herself to be something of a mystic as well.
INDY Week |
Brian Howe |
06-22-2007 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Ghostwalk, Rebecca Stott
Remembering America's First Black Marinesnew
Through their own words, we get the true picture of what life was like for these men who trained in the Jim Crow South and a gritty and harrowing account of their combat experiences.
INDY Week |
Alice Osborn |
05-31-2007 |
Nonfiction
The All-embracing Fiction of Alex Mindtnew
Mindt wants to understand everything, even love everything -- and he wants to sing about it -- and his interests in Male of the Species are omnivorous and avid.
Tags: Alex Mindt, Male of the Species
Heat and Dustnew
Michael Chitwood's poetry of Southern realism and universal mortality.
A Fire Engine Rednecknew
The final, unfinished novel of the late, great Larry Brown.
Tags: A Miracle of Catfish, Larry Brown
Minority Leaguesnew
How integration came to the South via minor league baseball.
INDY Week |
Adam Sobsey |
04-06-2007 |
Nonfiction
An Original and Incisive Essay Collectionnew
A book by a poet about poetry should, above all, excite readers about poems, and that's what The Napkin Manuscripts does best.
INDY Week |
Adam Sobsey |
03-15-2007 |
Nonfiction
Day Before Tomorrow: Cory Doctorow's Techno-Presentnew
In an era when the wonders of modern technology exceed our imaginations, boingboing.net co-editor Cory Doctorow understands that to write about the future, you have to write about the present.
Ordinary Madnessnew
Parker is a natural comedian, his ear is keen and close to the ground, and his search for a soul-cure is so genuine, so devout, that his occasional aerobatics of purplish lyricism don't fly away with his stories.
