AltWeeklies Wire
'The Oxford Project' Uses Photography as a Kind of Time Machinenew
Ultimately, The Oxford Project is an homage to Americana, a photographic record of small-town America and the story of intertwined lives. It is about history, personal and collective, and that ubiquitous force: change. This book, like the facets of human features, is so intriguing, it is nearly impossible to put down.
San Antonio Current |
Lyle Rosdahl |
11-13-2008 |
Nonfiction
Rose Aguilar Looks for Change on 'Red Highways'new
Red Highways: A Liberal's Journey into the Heartland is the result of Aguilar's six-month road trip through reliably red states to ask people why they identify with one party over another, or vote for certain candidates, or don't vote at all.
San Francisco Bay Guardian |
Amanda Witherell |
11-12-2008 |
Nonfiction
'The Scramble for Africa' Argues that Western Activists Have Darfur All Wrongnew
Steven Fake and Kevin Funk agree: When it comes to Darfur, even people who share their leftist politics mostly don't get it.
Pittsburgh City Paper |
Bill O'Driscoll |
11-11-2008 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
Mafiaboy Finally Writes About Being the World's Most Notorious Hackernew
In Mafiaboy: How I Cracked The Internet And Why It's Still Broken, Michael Calce and his writing buddy Craig Silverman have delivered a fun retrospective on the hacking underworld at the dawn of the new millennium.
NOW Magazine |
Howard Goldenthal |
11-10-2008 |
Nonfiction
'Awaiting the Heavenly Country' Examines the American Death Cultnew
With generous illustrated examples, Professor Mark S. Schantz depicts an America preoccupied with death. In this America, Shakespeare and militaristic Greek classicists like Herodotus were popular reading, and families of the 1830s and 1840s treasured photographic portraits of the freshly dead, including infants and children.
Shepherd Express |
Eric Beaumont |
11-10-2008 |
Nonfiction
'Scratch Beginnings' is Kind, Compassionate, and Naivenew
Instead of challenging his beliefs, Shepard's descent into poverty only adds to the already vexing verisimilitudes of poverty. Instead of offering insight into what he experienced and what that means to others like him, Shepard offers a book dazed by reality and confused by how to respond to it.
Charleston City Paper |
John Stoehr |
11-05-2008 |
Nonfiction
'The B List' Celebrates The So-Called Lower Rung of Auteursnew
If you're looking for a guide through film's funkier tributaries, this is intellectual criticism written with the urgency of a fan juiced to share some odd object of infatuation with a world that likely missed it the first time around.
Baltimore City Paper |
Jess Harvell |
11-04-2008 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
Deanne Stillman's 'Mustang' is Heartbreaking and Enragingnew
Mustang: The Saga of the Wild Horse in the American West is an exhaustively researched, eloquently written wake-up call.
Pasadena Weekly |
Bliss |
11-04-2008 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
Author Geoff Nicholson Gets Pedestriannew
The Lost Art of Walking explores the creative fuel for history's greatest thinkers.
L.A. Weekly |
Matthew Fleischer |
10-31-2008 |
Nonfiction
Eric Nuzum Becomes the Vampire in 'The Dead Travel Fast'new
In The Dead Travel Fast, the pop culture critic documents his epic, and naively hilarious, quest to single-handedly sort out the history and peculiar grip vampires hold on modern culture.
Weekly Alibi |
Steven Nery |
10-28-2008 |
Nonfiction
Siblings Different as Apples and Orangesnew
In Apples and Oranges, a memoir of sibling discord within her own family, Marie Brenner applies her skills as an investigative reporter to trying to fathom and repair her strained relationship with Carl. Jumping about in space and time, her memoir challenges the reader to find design amid absences and missed connections.
San Antonio Current |
Steven G. Kellman |
05-28-2008 |
Nonfiction
Sparkling Waters of Characternew
“It almost seemed like a dream, a long dream but a good one” states Marshall B. Allen, Jr. in his second collection of stories about Newton Fiveash, Jr, “Newt in the World of Tarzan” takes the reader on a splendid joyride among the flavorful characters of the Sparklin’ Waters Park in Okena, Florida, and in so doing, highlights the life of a man in a time gone by.
Metro Spirit |
Jason Sumerau |
04-27-2008 |
Nonfiction
With Liberalism and Justice for Allnew
George W. Bush has liberals so hopping mad that all the heaviest hitters among them seem to be publishing books this year, among them Hendrik Hertzberg, E.J. Dionne Jr., Molly Ivins, Maureen Dowd and Eric Alterman. Which ones to read?
Boston Phoenix |
Dave Denison |
09-24-2004 |
Nonfiction
