AltWeeklies Wire
Steven Levitt on His Controversial New Book, 'SuperFreakonomics'new
In 2005, University of Chicago economist Steven Levitt and New York Times columnist Stephen J. Dubner co-wrote Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything. Now comes the highly entertaining sequel, SuperFreakonomics.
City Pages (Twin Cities) |
John Ervin |
01-06-2010 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
Graywolf Press is a Lone Wolf in Book Publishingnew
The publisher is a thousand miles from NYC but remains one of the best.
City Pages (Twin Cities) |
Ben Westhoff |
10-29-2008 |
Books
The Best Way to Help Animals May Be to Eat Themnew
Why compassionate carnivorism just might work better than going vegetarian.
City Pages (Twin Cities) |
Rachel Hutton |
05-08-2008 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
Replacements Oral History Captures the Music, Not the Bandnew
Oral histories thrill most with gossipy, first-person accounts, but perhaps because Paul Westerberg is still alive, most participants held their tongues.
City Pages (Twin Cities) |
Sarah Askari |
11-15-2007 |
Nonfiction
Don't Throw Away the Keynew
Do you want to know a secret about sexual psychopaths? They're not the ones committing most of the sex crimes.
City Pages (Twin Cities) |
Beth Hawkins |
11-30-2006 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Eric Janus, Failure to Protect
Mass Consumptionnew
A once-local author talks about the perils of big-box retailers.
City Pages (Twin Cities) |
Paul Demko |
11-09-2006 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Big-Box Swindle, Stacy Mitchell
The Lie Behind the Liesnew
A former Hazelden resident finds greater fault with A Million Little Pieces: It's bad art that perpetuates bad ideas, facile thinking, and simpleminded black-and-white dichotomies.
City Pages (Twin Cities) |
Emily Carter Roiphe |
01-25-2006 |
Books
Fixing a Leaknew
Former Minneapolis City Councilmember Dan Cohen talks about being outed as the source of a leak about a political candidate's shoplifting conviction, and the subsequent legal battle against two Twin Cities dailies that ultimately reached the U.S. Supreme Court.
City Pages (Twin Cities) |
Paul Demko |
06-17-2005 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
Blows Against the Empirenew
A former Playboy model and card shark plays on our collective lust for all things confessional in her new book, which dishes premium dirt on Hugh Hefner's messianic goatishness.
City Pages (Twin Cities) |
Diablo Cody |
04-13-2005 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
New Kid On The Blocnew
Martin Cruz Smith, to his credit, has taken note of the competition, and Wolves Eat Dogs is a lesson in persistence; its steeped cynicism conveys the quality of feeling of a veteran Sovietologist, older and deeper than the disillusion of idealistic young'uns who put in a vodka-drenched post-collegiate year.
City Pages (Twin Cities) |
Jesse Berrett |
01-26-2005 |
Fiction
Tags: Martin Cruz Smith, Wolves Eat Dogs
