AltWeeklies Wire
Jim Sheeler Emerges from World of Wartime Loss With New Book and a Pleanew
Jim Sheeler's path to the Pulitzer Prize began simply enough. He was just curious about what was going on behind the scenes during the military funeral for Lance Cpl. Thomas J. Slocum, the first Coloradan to fall in the Iraq War.
Colorado Springs Independent |
Michael De Yoanna |
05-13-2008 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
Two New Affecting Books About Loving, and Being, Childrennew
Frances Richey's book of poems The Warrior: A Mother's Story of a Son at War and A.M. Holmes' memoir The Mistress's Daughter are "children's literature" in the most literal way.
New Haven Advocate |
Jolisa Gracewood |
05-13-2008 |
Books
Michael Chabon Fills in the Blank Spacesnew
Maps and Legends, Chabon's first essay collection, unearths some of the author's source texts and offers his exuberant ruminations on the role of the writer as protector and defender of artistic ancestors.
Los Angeles CityBeat |
Anthony Miller |
05-12-2008 |
Nonfiction
Tony Horwitz Shows Folks What They Didn't Know in 'A Voyage Long and Strange'new
The book's chief attraction, even more than its historical revelations about discovering North America, lies in armchair traveling with a personable, entertaining companion.
Shepherd Express |
Roger K. Miller |
05-09-2008 |
Nonfiction
Q&A with Bryan Lee O'Malley of Scott Pilgrim Booksnew
O'Malley is the 29-year-old creator of the popular comic book series that integrates familiar Gen Y tropes with fantasy elements borrowed from video games.
The Portland Mercury |
Alison Hallet |
05-09-2008 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
The Best Way to Help Animals May Be to Eat Themnew
Why compassionate carnivorism just might work better than going vegetarian.
City Pages (Twin Cities) |
Rachel Hutton |
05-08-2008 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
Muhammad Yunus Looks at the Entrepreneurial Poornew
The book is a hopeful portrait of the achievements of hard work and passion, which led to Yunus' 2006 Nobel Peace Prize.
Jackson Free Press |
Lindsey Maddox |
05-08-2008 |
Nonfiction
Lawrence A. Weinstein Explores the Essence of Grammarnew
Grammar for the Soul points out that simple words can have awesome power.
Tucson Weekly |
Irene Messina |
05-07-2008 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
The Lawd Tells Hit Like It Isnew
Although this is Hawkins' first and last novel, it is apparent that he had a keen knack for storytelling that was as honest as his long career as a judge. As a writer, he had a feel for humanity that is reminiscent of John Steinbeck (especially Grapes of Wrath), and a feel for the common-man language of Erskine Caldwell.
Jackson Free Press |
James L. Dickerson |
05-07-2008 |
Fiction
'187 Reasons' is a Journey of the Soul, Race and Identity, Power and Strugglenew
Herrera's assemblage of essays, poems of varying degrees and form, songs and mixed-media work aims to confront what seems to be an eternal impasse for the Chicano: straddling the fence of an imaginary U.S.-Mexican border, hobbling at the edge of an identity and never quite being able to step onto one side or the other.
Jackson Free Press |
Brandi Herrera Pfrehm |
05-07-2008 |
Poetry
Inside the Oil Conundrumnew
Excerpts from Robert Bryce's Gusher of Lies: The Dangerous Delusions of "Energy Independence".
The Texas Observer |
Robert Bryce |
05-07-2008 |
Excerpts
'World Made By Hand' Conveys Post-Oil Society Through Richly Descriptive Narrativenew
While no doubt many consider him a doomsayer or a kook, Kunstler has become a go-to guest lecturer on topics ranging from architecture to urban planning to peak oil -- and now he's translated ideas in his nonfiction writing into a novel.
The Texas Observer |
C.B. Evans |
05-07-2008 |
Fiction
Stefan Merrill Block Makes Peace with a Family Cursenew
In the tradition of James Joyce, who abandoned his native Ireland at a young age but could never stop writing about it, Block is a 26-year-old wunderkind who got to the brink of fame in his new residence of Brooklyn, New York, by ruminating on his Texas roots.
Dallas Observer |
Ben Westhoff |
05-05-2008 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
Julie Doucet Exposes Herself in '365 Days'new
Doucet's visual diary 365 Days is an intimate look into the minutiae of everything she went through over a full year.
NOW Magazine |
David Silverberg |
05-02-2008 |
Nonfiction
You Will Read Funny Storiesnew
Jennifer 8. Lee layers into her engrossing, charmingly tangential book other pieces -- beyond fortune cookies -- of the history of Chinese food in America.
Eugene Weekly |
Molly Templeton |
05-02-2008 |
Nonfiction
