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A Master's Lifenew
From afar, he and his art were worshipped; closer in, both looked less comfortable; seen intimately, the paintings worried observers. The second volume of Hilary Spurling's Matisse biography covers the difficult man's life from 1909-1954.
Boston Phoenix |
Michael Freedberg |
11-08-2005 |
Nonfiction
Alan Lomax Uncovered: Challenging the Delta Historiannew
Alan Lomax has long been a controversial figure among roots-music insiders. Lost Delta Found inflames that controversy with the publication of work by other researchers that Lomax used without proper attribution.
Boston Phoenix |
Ted Drozdowski |
10-27-2005 |
Nonfiction
Crisis Indeednew
The DC universe goes off the deep end.
Boston Phoenix |
Douglas Wolk |
10-21-2005 |
Fiction
Fast and Furious: Ted Berrigan's Collected Poemsnew
Twenty-two years after Ted Berrigan’s sudden death at 48, his Collected Poems, a 760-page brick of a book, is here. It will solidify and expand his legend.
Boston Phoenix |
William Corbett |
10-17-2005 |
Poetry
The Gold Standardnew
Peter Guralnick's life of Sam Cooke shines.
Boston Phoenix |
David Kirby |
10-14-2005 |
Nonfiction
Dark Starnew
Through meticulous research Charles R. Cross, who also wrote the Kurt Cobain biography Heavier Than Heaven, has blown away the hearsay lazily sustained by earlier Jimi Hendrix books.
Boston Phoenix |
Ted Drozdowski |
10-11-2005 |
Nonfiction
Tales of a Quitternew
A book-long narrative rather than the usual series of semi-epiphanic moments, The Quitter is the most substantive and rewarding look yet at the strangely compelling life of the Lake Erie everyman.
Boston Phoenix |
Mike Miliard |
09-30-2005 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
Fall Books Defy Disasternew
This coming fall and winter are thin on fiction but large on hulking works of non-fiction that might help us catch up with this runaway bobsled called planet Earth.
Boston Phoenix |
John Freeman |
09-27-2005 |
Books
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Social Sciencenew
In On Beauty, the 30-year-old Jamaican-British writer achieves greater dimension and restraint than in her first two books, giving readers a social novel that is true both to the times and to the mysterious workings of beauty itself.
Boston Phoenix |
Catherine Tumber |
09-23-2005 |
Fiction
Tags: On Beauty, Zadie Smith
Poetic Licensenew
The authors of The 9/11 Commission Report may have unwittingly created America's first epic.
Boston Phoenix |
Daniel Aaron, Leslie Dunton-Downer and Harvey A. Silverglate |
09-09-2005 |
Nonfiction
Dante, Dudenew
The Commedia finds a 21st-century vernacular.
Boston Phoenix |
Jeffrey Gantz |
09-02-2005 |
Fiction
Punk Rock Prosenew
Punk rock, mental breakdowns, bucketloads of beer -- Jimmy Reject has figured out that it's one thing being a punk rocker, and it's another being on the outside of the world looking in.
Boston Phoenix |
Mike Miliard |
08-25-2005 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
Frank King's Gasoline Alley Comes to Hardcovernew
In Frank King’s Walt and Skeezix, editors Jeet Heer, Chris Oliveros, and Chris Ware have produced a handsomely designed, sweet-souled book, along with a forthcoming multi-volume set of his Gasoline Alley comic strips.
Boston Phoenix |
William Corbett |
08-22-2005 |
Fiction
Tags: Frank O. King, Walt and Skeezix
Talking the Talknew
Anthony DeCurtis has had A-list access for decades as an editor at Rolling Stone, but this book gets as much juice from his gently thoughtful manner of questioning as from his connections with celebrity.
Boston Phoenix |
Ted Drozdowski |
08-04-2005 |
Nonfiction
J.K. Rowling's 'Prince' is Full-Bloodednew
They say the third time's the charm, and Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, the sixth volume in J.K. Rowling's coming-of-age saga of the Frodo/Jesus of the wizarding world, is the best since the third, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban.
Boston Phoenix |
Carolyn Clay |
08-02-2005 |
Fiction
