AltWeeklies Wire
Mike Edison Walks Alonenew
On his death bed, Edison probably won't lament that he didn't do this or he didn't go there. His leap-then-look approach to life leaves no time for hemming-and-hawing, and even the title of his new memoir reads like bang-bang-bang.
Boston Phoenix |
Amy Finch |
06-12-2008 |
Nonfiction
Deanne Stillman Explains What Happened to the West's Horsesnew
Mustang: The Saga of the Wild Horse in the American West provides a detailed history of the horse and our treatment of the animal -- from its evolution on the North American continent to its scant existence today.
Tucson Weekly |
Irene Messina |
06-11-2008 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
David Milne Dissects the Life of Walt Rostow, Who Never Examined His Role in Terrible Violencenew
Walt Rostow's advice as LBJ's chief advisor led to aggressive military action Vietnam, culminating in massive bombings that left the taint of death and failure on LBJ's presidency.
The Texas Observer |
Thomas Palaima |
06-11-2008 |
Nonfiction
Richard Price is One of Our Best Chroniclers of Street Lifenew
Price's recently released and bestselling eighth novel is Lush Life, another sprawling work. A restaurant worker is gunned down in a gentrifying neighborhood on the Lower East Side of New York, and two streetwise cops hit the pavement to find out what happened. The answer isn't simple, as it never is in Price's stories.
New Haven Advocate |
Jim Motavalli |
06-10-2008 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
Photo Tome Sheds Light on a Dark Scenenew
Photographer Peter Beste has compiled seven years of capturing fake blood and real shit, inverted crosses and mixed messages that reveal Norwegian black metal bands to be the Ramones of death metal: simple and conceptual, an expression of acceptance and rejection, cartoonish and dead serious.
Metro Times |
Tony Ware |
06-10-2008 |
Nonfiction
Finding Herself in Cajun Countrynew
Journalist Rheta Grimsley Johnson writes a long love letter to her adoptive home in Louisiana's Cajun Country.
The Memphis Flyer |
John Branston |
06-06-2008 |
Nonfiction
Terrance Dean Responds to Our Reading of His Lifenew
Orlando Weekly: It surprised me how much self-loathing you went through, even for a gay man. It seems like yours was stronger due to your religious background.
Terrance Dean: Exactly.
Terrance Dean: Exactly.
Orlando Weekly |
Justin Strout |
06-05-2008 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
A Clumsy Tell-All Spoils Dialogue Starter on Gays in Rapnew
If even a trace of true honesty permeated the pages, maybe Hiding in Hip Hop could be considered a genuine first step. The acceptance and understanding of gays in rap hasn't evolved a micro-step in nearly three decades of existence.
Orlando Weekly |
Justin Strout |
06-05-2008 |
Original Work
Two New Books Rummage Through the Rubble of No Wave New Yorknew
With its loose aesthetic boundaries, abbreviated timeline, and incestuous collaborations, the No Wave years are ripe for the kind of anthropological studies offered by two recent illustrated histories, Marc Masters' No Wave (Black Dog, 205 pages, $29.95) and Thurston Moore and Byron Coley's No Wave: Post-Punk. Underground. New York 1976-1980 (Abrams Image).
San Francisco Bay Guardian |
MAX GOLDBERG |
06-04-2008 |
Nonfiction
'U.S. vs. Them' Explores the Paranoid Style in U.S. Foreign Policynew
In a new book on American foreign policy, New Republic editor J. Peter Scoblic spends a couple of hundred pages reviewing the historical record of Ronald Reagan, George H. W. Bush, and the current Bush presidency before getting to the real nub of the issue, in which he is succinctly correct: Conservatism, he writes, "although it has a clear intellectual pedigree, operates on a deep psychological level as well."
Artvoice |
Staff |
06-02-2008 |
Nonfiction
'Rock On' Takes Us into the Bowels of the Recording Industrynew
The main draw is not the book's humor but its behind-the-scenes tour of the profit-driven, out-of-touch mismanagement of a major record label.
Carl Honore Puts On the Brakes with 'In Praise of Slowness'new
"I think that when you eat in a Slow way -- that is with a capital S -- you realize that when you put something in your mouth that there is a whole story behind it," he says. "We've lost all of that back story to our food that's been shorn away in this fast-forward culture."
Boulder Weekly |
Erica Grossman |
06-02-2008 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
To Food Writer Amy Trubek, Vermont Tastes Like the Futurenew
Trubek's just-released book The Taste of Place: A Cultural Journey into Terroir is a shot across the bow of our old system of thought and commerce. But more fundamentally, it shows how a renewed appreciation of the magic of local flavor might just save our collective bacon.
Seven Days |
Matt Scanlon |
06-02-2008 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
Libby Fischer Hellmann Explores the Secrets of the Suburbsnew
She sets her whodunits in the land of never-ending lawns.
Chicago Reader |
Patrick Daily |
06-02-2008 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
After the Kids Go to Bed, Steven Sidor Lets the Darkness Innew
His first two books -- Bone Factory and Skin River -- oozed with evil. His latest, The Mirror's Edge, tops them both. It's about two kidnapped boys, likely -- or perhaps not? -- the victims of a spooky children's book illustrator, the son of a practitioner of the black arts.
Chicago Reader |
Jonathan Black |
06-02-2008 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Steven Sidor, The Mirror's Edge
