AltWeeklies Wire
Savannah Knoop: Living Without LeRoynew
With her new memoir, the literary co-hoaxer steps out of JT LeRoy's shadow. But can she step out of Laura Albert's?
SF Weekly |
Jonathan Kiefer |
11-05-2008 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
Dr. Oliver Sacks on 'Music Brain'new
He studies the innate ties between music and the mind, and his findings underpin the ways people really could, say, be "born to rock" -- or, at the very least, that they could develop a psychological need to rock at some point in their lives.
SF Weekly |
Jennifer Maerz |
10-31-2007 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
Willy Vlautin Attempts the Great Escapenew
The frontman for Richmond Fontaine has turned three years as a touring musician and 10 years working for a trucking company into a literary device with his debut novel.
SF Weekly |
Jennifer Maerz |
06-27-2007 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Motel Life, Willy Vlautin
Take Me Outnew
The Franz Ferdinand singer's compilation of Guardian food columns is a fun read.
SF Weekly |
Jennifer Maerz |
01-04-2007 |
Nonfiction
Doing It Yourselfnew
ReadyMade magazine presents a handsome DIY bible for those interested in becoming a notoriously trash-reclaiming do-it-yourselfer.
SF Weekly |
Hiya Swanhuyser |
01-04-2006 |
Nonfiction
In the Stacksnew
Despite the gains in online research, libraries remain special and important places.
Cookie-Cutter Prosenew
The senator's first novel uses language as poetic and moving as a Capitol Hill memo.
Fess Upnew
Two new anthologies of tell-all personal essays leave the reader little to identify with.
SF Weekly |
Karen Zuercher |
11-02-2005 |
Nonfiction
Fifty Years After His Disappearance, Poet Lives Onnew
Renewed attention to Weldon Kees is a peculiar literary revival tale, in which one enthusiast after another seems to discover his own life story in Kees, then proselytizes on behalf of the forgotten poet.
Overcoming Writer's Block at the Learning Annexnew
A man who makes his living infiltrating events and writing about them is plumb out of ideas until he signs up for a writing class under the pseudonym Armando Leonardo.
Tags: memoir
The Kids All Writenew
An anthology of young writers sets out to prove that this generation is still reading and writing, no matter what some studies say.
SF Weekly |
Karen Zuercher |
06-02-2005 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
