AltWeeklies Wire
She's Gotta Have Hitsnew
Pop-music interludes intrude on the story of a female music exec.
Baltimore City Paper |
Makkada B. Selah |
10-06-2005 |
Fiction
Tags: Bliss, Danyel Smith
Comically Disinclinednew
Here's a selection of comic books for those who don't care for comics.
Baltimore City Paper |
Tim Kreider |
09-28-2005 |
Fiction
Super Erosnew
A slash fiction writer gives up her secret identity.
Baltimore City Paper |
Violet Glaze |
09-28-2005 |
Original Work
Dark Artsnew
Comics master Charles Burns digs deeper in Black Hole.
Baltimore City Paper |
Tom Chalkley |
09-28-2005 |
Fiction
Career Highnew
In Candace Bushnell’s latest book, it’s all work and not so much play.
Baltimore City Paper |
Wendy Ward |
09-19-2005 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
Cash Woesnew
A new spate of books shows how the love of money infects our lives.
Baltimore City Paper |
Joab Jackson |
09-19-2005 |
Books
Tags: Various Titles, Various Authors
Dire Educationnew
Jonathan Kozol’s latest book fires off a crucial wake-up call for rapidly resegregating public school systems.
Baltimore City Paper |
Michael Corbin |
09-19-2005 |
Nonfiction
True Liesnew
Middle-aging enfant terrible Bret Easton Ellis tells the story of his life -- sorta.
Baltimore City Paper |
Bret |
08-24-2005 |
Fiction
It Takes a Nation of Manicsnew
In his new book, Johns Hopkins University psychologist John D. Gartner delivers a surprising diagnosis to the whole country: The American spirit is actually a mental disorder.
Baltimore City Paper |
Violet Carberry |
03-09-2005 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
Apocalypse Soonnew
New books by Jared Diamond and Christopher D. Cook parse out details of the end of the world as we know it.
Baltimore City Paper |
Scott Carlson |
01-26-2005 |
Nonfiction
Masterpiecenew
Despite some psychological overreaching, this new biography of 20th century art giant Willem de Kooning stands as the definitive account of his genius and turbulent life.
Baltimore City Paper |
Bret McCabe |
01-19-2005 |
Nonfiction
Travels With Charleynew
Novelist Peter Carey took his son to Japan and all he got were these lousy insights.
Baltimore City Paper |
Violet Carberry |
01-19-2005 |
Nonfiction
Doyenne of Blending Fiction, History and Visual Artnew
Susan Vreeland is part of a growing movement of authors who have found success using the lives, loves and masterpieces of great artists to fuel their writing.
Baltimore City Paper |
J. Bowers |
01-17-2005 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
Story of the First Death Row Inmate Cleared by DNAnew
This story has all the elements of a classic American tale: a gruesome murder and a simple man, falsely accused, who fights the system and wins. The controversial issues of the death penalty and the abuses of the criminal-justice system form its core.
Baltimore City Paper |
Scott Carlson |
09-08-2004 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Bloodsworth, Tim Junkin
Mystery Novel Talks About Oysters, War Brides and Fusion Cuisinenew
The notions of change, adaptability, and cross-cultural fusion are central to Sujata Massey's stunning seventh novel, where the unlikely story lines of Asian oysters repopulating the Chesapeake, a buzzing new fusion restaurant in Washington, D.C., and the grim consequences of the Vietnam War meld into a seamless whole.
Baltimore City Paper |
Lizzie Skurnick |
08-24-2004 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
