AltWeeklies Wire
Has Tank Girl Grown up - or Just Boring?new
The cult comic series, on hiatus since the mid-'90s debacle of a movie adaptation, has been revived. Unfortunately, its namesake has lost her gutter charm.
Baltimore City Paper |
Raven Baker |
02-05-2008 |
Fiction
Sensuality and Storytelling Rulenew
Sheryl St. Germain offers a kind of time-lapse of two decades of her life and art -- it's a passionate, sometimes wrenching compendium with a few notable weaknesses.
Pittsburgh City Paper |
Bill O'Driscoll |
02-04-2008 |
Poetry
Now You See Him The Next Big Thingnew
Eli Gottlieb is a Mad Scientist. He nurtures the voices in his head until they rise from the operating table, trash the laboratory and attack the villagers. He’s a character writer, and in an age where readers need a plot like junkies needs a fix, that’s a rare thing.
Boulder Weekly |
Dale Bridges |
02-04-2008 |
Fiction
'All God, All the Time'new
The book began as an angry polemic “about the way we have allowed our proclamation as Christians to be used by political, conservative elites,” Marsh said. But after the 2006 mid-term elections, he reframed the book to address the question: “Where do we go from here?”
Jackson Free Press |
Ronni Mott |
02-04-2008 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
Mother Indianew
Grand-scale storytelling from second-time novelist Manil Suri.
The Memphis Flyer |
Leonard Gil |
02-01-2008 |
Fiction
'The Delivery Man': Balls-out Scarynew
Joe McGinniss Jr.'s characters live in the epitome of a moral morass—Las Vegas—but these twentysomething desert rats are searching for a way out. Their efforts make for a fast-paced read, full of scares, gross-outs, and waste.
The Portland Mercury |
Courtney Ferguson |
02-01-2008 |
Fiction
Clair Huot's Latest Transport You to Different Placenew
The Prison Tangram is one of those satisfying mysteries that transports you to a totally different place – that space in your head reserved for the unexpected.
NOW Magazine |
Lesley McAllister |
01-31-2008 |
Fiction
Sellout Has Lots to Say About Selling Outnew
Randall Kennedy seizes on his own personal experience to write about what obligations black leaders and blacks in general have to their communities.
NOW Magazine |
Susan G. Cole |
01-31-2008 |
Original Work
X.J. Kennedy's Latest Disappointsnew
While the usual X.J. Kennedy suspects—rhyme-and-meter mastery; a playful, often sardonic personality—thrive throughout, Peeping Tom's Cabin suffers from lethargy of theme.
About our moneynew
How do the richer get richer? By taking money from wage-earners, through tax abatements, incentives, and subsidies.
Sacramento News & Review |
Kel Munger |
01-31-2008 |
Nonfiction
Black Hole is a Fascinating Exploration of Growing Upnew
Set mainly in the Pacific Northwest, circa mid-1970s, Black Hole is the story, part science fiction, part horror, part coming-of-age, of a strange sexually transmitted disease that physically deforms those who catch it.
East Bay Express |
Jason A. Zwiker |
01-30-2008 |
Fiction
Work Can Be Considered Honest Enterprisenew
Two Lives uses the literary equivalent of investigative journalism to illuminate segments of the relationship that peek out from between reams of scholarship -- all while tackling the serious business of biography and literary criticism
East Bay Express |
Zak M. Salih |
01-30-2008 |
Fiction
Ira Glass' Kings Underscores Need for Good Writingnew
The book contains pieces as diverse as can be contained in one volume, from the economics of raising a cow in Michael Pollan's "Power Steer," to the group mentality of soccer hooligans in an excerpt from Bill Buford's book Among the Thugs.
Charleston City Paper |
John Edward Royall |
01-30-2008 |
Nonfiction
Fighting the Devil in Outsider Artnew
Greg Bottoms uncovers the wild side of Christian art in The Colorful Apocalypse.
C-Ville Weekly |
Jayson Whitehead |
01-30-2008 |
Nonfiction
The Long Viewnew
Long-time Boston jazz critic Bob Blumenthal avoids the relay-race theory of music history. The artists, he says, never passed the baton -- they just kept running.
Boston Phoenix |
Jon Garelick |
01-30-2008 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
