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Holding Forth: Marc Estrin's Arnold Hitler

Boston Phoenix | July 19, 2005

Marc Estrin’s sophomore novel follows an alienated protagonist as his life intersects with various historical events and flash points. Arnold Hitler enters a Texas elementary school in the mid ’50s, and witnesses up close the wrenching drama of an early desegregation attempt.

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Tags: Marc Estrin, The Education of Arnold Hitler

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It's time to give Donovan his due. Often dismissed, he was, when he was good, both distinct and representational, a performer who ingested and then reflected the temper of the times.

Boston Phoenix | Richard C. Walls | 12-02-2005 | Reviews

Tags: Donovan, Try for the Sun: The Journey of Donovan

Dowsednew

Rick Moody has made an ambitious leap into a sprawling, overstuffed satiric novel centered on the efforts of various incompetents to create a television mini-series called The Diviners.

Boston Phoenix | Richard C. Walls | 11-10-2005 | Fiction

Tags: Rick Moody, The Diviners

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The addition of Howard Phillips Lovecraft (1890-1937) to the Library of America’s prestigious list of honored authors begs the question whether he really is that good or whether the L of A is just running out of Great American Writers.

Boston Phoenix | Richard C. Walls | 04-22-2005 | Author Profiles & Interviews

Tags: H.P. Lovecraft, Against Life Michel Houellebecq Dorna Khazeni Weird Tales, Tales Against the World

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In a proliferating library of graffiti books, the 410-page The History of American Graffiti stakes a major claim at being the definitive history of the art form. And it's astonishingly illustrated by hundreds of snapshots, mostly by the artists themselves.

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Boston Phoenix | Eugenia Williamson | 02-10-2011 | Author Profiles & Interviews

Tags: Charlaine Harris, Sookie Stackhouse

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Moaning, groaning, and oiled-hunk-boning with Uncle Walter & Co.

Boston Phoenix | Uncle Walter and the Wife | 02-10-2011 | Books

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To say that Tim Wu has written a history of the information age is sort of like saying that Howard Zinn wrote a history of the United States. Wu is a young scholar but the first line of his obituary is already written: a few years back he coined the term "Net neutrality," then got the FCC to embrace

Boston Phoenix | Carly Carioli | 02-08-2011 | Author Profiles & Interviews

Tags: Net Neutrality, FCC, Tim Wu