AltWeeklies Wire
He's a Carolina Pranksternew
The protagonist of Singleton's new novel, Mendal Dawes, grows up in the, uh, 100 percent fictional small mill town of Forty-Five, S.C., son to a brilliant if somewhat unbalanced trickster of an anarchist-liberal who continually disrupts the town's banal busybodies and proselytizing religious nuts. Turns out, Singleton is writing from experience.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Thomas Bell |
09-09-2004 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
My Nipples Loved Fruitnew
Call me an anthrocentrist (my nipples often do, though they lisp the "tr"), but I read the novel more as the story of an obese 13-year-old Canadian boy whose considerable social burdens have been increased by the budding of his nipples into cherry-sized stigmata.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Thomas Bell |
08-26-2004 |
Fiction
McSweeney's Anthology Reveals the Mind of the Comic Book Guynew
The comic book anthology McSweeney's Quarterly Concern #13 marks the latest milestone in the medium's drawn-out coming of age. If American comics saw their infancy with newspaper strips in the early 20th century, and endured an endless adolescence with superhero titles, the art form now emerges ready for adulthood.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Curt Holman |
08-26-2004 |
Fiction
