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Edwards' Empathynew
In a candid memoir, Elizabeth Edwards writes of the private pain behind the public career.
INDY Week |
Christy Hardin Smith |
12-07-2006 |
Nonfiction
Tags: Elizabeth Edwards, Saving Graces
Nothing Up His Sleevenew
In his latest novel, the cartoonist and novelist shows too little imagination in his appropriations of Southern history and literature.
Tags: Doug Marlette, Magic Time
Of Sorrow, Sex and Historynew
Charles Frazier's second novel, Thirteen Moons, is another trek through the North Carolina mountains.
The Life You Savenew
Catherine McCall's memoir recalls a life of sinking and surfacing.
INDY Week |
Sylvia Pfeiffenberger |
08-03-2006 |
Nonfiction
The Life All Around Hernew
In response to pleading fans who fell in love with Ellen Foster, 20 years later Gibbons presents a 15-year-old Ellen in the sequel, The Life All Around Me By Ellen Foster.
INDY Week |
Virgina Daniel |
01-26-2006 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
Whitewashnew
In his new autobiography, Jesse Helms sees himself as a humanitarian -- not a racist supporter of brutal right-wing regimes who turned obstructionism into a foreign policy.
INDY Week |
Barry Yeoman |
09-12-2005 |
Nonfiction
Real Men Wear Pinknew
Founder of Code Pink Medea Benjamin says it's time to start planning to stop the next war, and to build a sustainable economy without oil.
INDY Week |
Bob Geary |
06-30-2005 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
We've Got A Secret That We're Keeping from Ourselvesnew
William M. Arkin's new book, Code Names, is a true nuts-and-bolts expose on the finer points of defense and intelligence secrecy, and perhaps the largest single release of official secrets since Daniel Ellsberg leaked the Pentagon Papers in 1971.
INDY Week |
Jon Elliston |
04-08-2005 |
Nonfiction
Best Books From North Carolinanew
Chosen as best book of the year is Blood Done Sign My Name, Timothy Tyson's detective-story record of the racially tense summer of 1970 in Oxford, N.C.
INDY Week |
John Valentine |
01-07-2005 |
Nonfiction
The Past Is Present: A Look Back at COINTELPROnew
The American Civil Liberties Union has filed Freedom of Information Act requests asking for government files on the surveillance and questioning of nonviolent activists involved with anti-war, environmental and free-speech groups. Do Americans really want to return to the days when peaceful critics become the subject of government investigations?
INDY Week |
Jon Elliston |
01-03-2005 |
Nonfiction
Back to the Schoolnew
Mark your calendars: The Defense Department's recurring PR nightmare returns this weekend. From Nov. 19-21, thousands of activists will gather at the gates of Fort Benning, Ga., for the annual protest calling for the closure of the Army facility long known as the School of the Americas.
INDY Week |
Jon Elliston |
12-03-2004 |
Nonfiction
Hand Jobsnew
Girls gone wild: Five ladies let their fingers do the talking when they meet for a day of pornogami -- papermaking for adults. (Warning: explicit content)
INDY Week |
Olufunke Moses |
12-03-2004 |
Nonfiction
Novel about Dancer Explores Russian and Gay Culturesnew
Colum McCann's 2003 historical novel describes dancer Rudolph Nureyev as an "international mongrel," someone who travels the world and is comfortable everywhere and nowhere at the same time.
INDY Week |
Byron Woods |
08-07-2004 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
