AltWeeklies Wire
The Go-Betweensnew
Writers dismantle and recombine genre in search of fresh modes of storytelling.
Baltimore City Paper |
Adrienne Martini |
06-05-2007 |
Fiction
A Defense of Supposedly 'Simplistic' Southern Hip-hopnew
Roni Sarig's excellent new history of Southern rap is one of the few of its kind and nonetheless overdue.
Baltimore City Paper |
Jess Harvell |
06-05-2007 |
Nonfiction
History Never Forgetsnew
Two documentaries forever defined German filmmaker Leni Riefenstahl.
Baltimore City Paper |
Zak M. Salih |
05-22-2007 |
Nonfiction
Officeless Spacenew
Michelle Goodman is here to help women free themselves from mindless drudgery.
Baltimore City Paper |
Kimberly Burge |
05-15-2007 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
A Fine Novelnew
Horses is ultimately a testament to just how easily mellows can be harshed -- to life's hidden tripwires, strung everywhere and capable of catapulting anyone back down the bittersweet rabbit hole of stinging memory.
Baltimore City Paper |
Raymond Cummings |
05-08-2007 |
Fiction
Tags: Out Stealing Horses, Per Petterson
A Worthy Entry Onto the School of Rock Required-reading Listnew
If ever you wanted a minute-by-minute account of the rise of the beast that became punk rock, this is it.
Baltimore City Paper |
Emily Flake |
05-08-2007 |
Nonfiction
Dudes Look Like a Maybenew
Journalist Charlie Leduff goes looking for the rugged American man -- and may be still looking for him.
Baltimore City Paper |
Zak M. Salih |
05-08-2007 |
Nonfiction
Brown Reasons to Livenew
With a socio-scatological new book, Dave Praeger wants to be your number two.
Baltimore City Paper |
Emily Flake |
05-01-2007 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
What is an Anarchist Parent, Anyway?new
China Martens created her new book the way she raised her daughter -- one day at a time.
Baltimore City Paper |
Violet Glaze |
05-01-2007 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
Questions of Politics, Love, Sanity and Envynew
Theodore Gericault's 1818 painting "The Raft of the Medusa," a beautifully colored and affecting tableau that depicts survivors of a shipwreck off the African coast, is the subject of this novel.
Baltimore City Paper |
Stephen Peterson |
04-24-2007 |
Fiction
Tags: Arabella Edge, The God of Spring
Misleading Title, but an Apt Metaphornew
The memoir isn't so much about driving with dead people, although the author does describe joyriding in an empty hearse with her high-school friend, the local mortician's daughter.
Baltimore City Paper |
Nicole Leistikow |
04-24-2007 |
Nonfiction
Aging New Yorker Critic Fusty, Film at 11new
Culture vulture Clive James riffs on and off 20th century intellectual pugilists and bete noires.
Baltimore City Paper |
Michaelangelo Matos |
04-17-2007 |
Nonfiction
The Publisher 23new
Curiosity and more than a little obsession drove Doug Mowbray to start putting out books with his imprint twentythreebooks.
Baltimore City Paper |
Brooke Hall |
04-17-2007 |
Books
Dennis Cooper Meets Osamu Dazainew
Ryu Murakami isn't afraid of the horrific side of contemporary life, which he renders in writing of an almost unbearable calm serenity.
Baltimore City Paper |
Bret McCabe |
04-10-2007 |
Fiction
Tags: Piercing, Ryu Murakami
A Dream-catcher Storynew
Cummins applies a sensitive skill to the slow movements of the characters peopling the arid landscape of New Mexico and a Navajo reservation in her first novel, Yellowcake.
Baltimore City Paper |
Wendy Ward |
04-10-2007 |
Fiction
Tags: Ann Cummins, yellowcake
