AltWeeklies Wire
Lit Highlights September 2014new
Fall might mean football season to a lot of people, but the conscientious bookworm knows changing leaves mean that your favorite bookstores are changing their shelves.
Jackson Free Press |
Micah Smith |
09-11-2014 |
Books
All Hallows Readnew
Science-fiction writer Neil Gaiman wants Halloween to also be a book- giving holiday.
Jackson Free Press |
Amber Helsel |
10-24-2013 |
Books
Making Worldsnew
In "The Kings and Queens of Roam," author Daniel Wallace illustrates the power words have to make worlds, both in the tragic whimsy of the world his words create and in the sad, scary world one character builds for another.
Jackson Free Press |
Kathleen M. Mitchell |
05-14-2013 |
Books
Trussed and Tiednew
“Fifty Shades of Chicken” entertains while educating about cooking poultry.
Jackson Free Press |
Jessica Mizell |
04-01-2013 |
Books
American Idiotnew
When Davy Rothbart applied for a job at National Public Radio’s “This American Life” radio program, he was honest about his previous job experience: pizza delivery guy, ticket scalper, marijuana salesman.
Jackson Free Press |
Kathleen M. Mitchell |
11-30-2012 |
Books
Spooky Storiesnew
Do you want to know more about ghosts and paranormal investigations? Here are some books that might help you.
Jackson Free Press |
Pat Bullock Williams |
10-26-2012 |
Books
A Mad Insurrectionnew
Fifty years ago this week, James Meredith integrated Ole Miss, causing violent upheaval. Here are three books from men in the thick of the uprising.
Jackson Free Press |
Donna Ladd |
10-01-2012 |
Nonfiction
Literary Photographer: A Snapshot of Natasha Tretheweynew
At first glance, a reader may not recognize Natasha Trethewey in the African American tradition of being innately political, but that is only if one is oblivious to the power of subtlety and the politics of the body.
Jackson Free Press |
C. Liegh McInnis |
09-24-2012 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
'Mississippi is Mine'new
What James Meredith did not only changed a university, but also a state and a nation.
Jackson Free Press |
Joe Atkins |
09-16-2012 |
Nonfiction
Brutal and Poeticnew
Author of numerous non-fiction books, award-winning author Peter Heller's first foray into fiction gives readers an unusual look at one possible future.
Jackson Free Press |
Ronni Mott |
08-16-2012 |
Fiction
Running for Their Livesnew
With his first book, "The Dummy Line," Bobby Cole delivers a fast-paced thriller that pits a man and his daughter against a group of truly sadistic thugs in a night-long wilderness chase.
Jackson Free Press |
Sam Hall |
04-06-2012 |
Fiction
Jihad, Definednew
Casual readers may view How to Win a Cosmic War, the second book by acclaimed religious scholar Reza Aslan, as a defense of Islam. In part, this is an accurate assessment.
Jackson Free Press |
Cheree Franco |
07-09-2009 |
Nonfiction
New Book Reveals Calivinist Truths About Standing Up for Social Justicenew
The Good Doctors: The Medical Committee for Human Rights and the Struggle for Social Justice in Health Care portrays fallible human beings who didn't always get along, didn't always know what they were doing, and still managed to accomplish something.
Jackson Free Press |
Tom Head |
07-09-2009 |
Nonfiction
Parting the Curtain: 'Devil's Sanctuary' Tells the Story of Mississippi's Racismnew
Magnolia State residents "have a long history of being against whatever the rest of the nation is for," the authors write in Devil’s Sanctuary: an Eyewitness History of Mississippi Hate Crimes. Their self-evident truths did not include equality—not for the slaves imported into the state and not for the Native Americans exported out.
Jackson Free Press |
Ronni Mott |
07-09-2009 |
Nonfiction
'Appetite for Self-Destruction' Looks at the Collapse of the Record Industrynew
If you take one jewel of wisdom away from this book, it is this: The reason many crappy musicians have gotten the limelight, the reason most people turned off their radios and stopped watching the Grammys and instead started downloading music from the internet, is money.
Jackson Free Press |
Andi Agnew |
06-26-2009 |
Nonfiction
