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Memoir Covers the Author's Struggle to Believe and More

Boston Phoenix | March 22, 2005

David Plante descends from Ernest Hemingway and writes a high American plain style with a personality all its own. In his memoir American Ghosts, he quotes a passage from Hemingway’s Death in the Afternoon, and his prose stands up to it.

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Tags: American Ghosts, David Plante

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Giving Good Gimmick: Granta at 30new

To sustain a good literary magazine over decades it pays to have a gimmick. Thirty-year-old Granta's secret to success: themes, like this issue's "New Fiction Special."

Boston Phoenix | William Corbett | 06-30-2009 | Fiction

Tags: Granta 106: New Fiction Special, literary journals, Poetry, Granta

Fast and Furious: Ted Berrigan's Collected Poemsnew

Twenty-two years after Ted Berrigan’s sudden death at 48, his Collected Poems, a 760-page brick of a book, is here. It will solidify and expand his legend.

Boston Phoenix | William Corbett | 10-17-2005 | Poetry

Tags: Ted Berrigan, The Collected Poems of Ted Berrigan

Frank King's Gasoline Alley Comes to Hardcovernew

In Frank King’s Walt and Skeezix, editors Jeet Heer, Chris Oliveros, and Chris Ware have produced a handsomely designed, sweet-souled book, along with a forthcoming multi-volume set of his Gasoline Alley comic strips.

Boston Phoenix | William Corbett | 08-22-2005 | Fiction

Tags: Frank O. King, Walt and Skeezix

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Caleb Neelon Traces Graffiti's Hidden History in New Booknew

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.

Boston Phoenix | Greg Cook | 04-06-2011 | Author Profiles & Interviews

Tags: graffiti, street art, Caleb Neelon, The History of American Graffiti, art books

I did Sookie Stackhousenew

A book snob reveals her whirlwind affair with America's favorite telepathic waitress.

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

Tags: Charlaine Harris, Sookie Stackhouse

20 Astoundingly Bad Romance Novel Coversnew

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

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

Tags: Romance Novels

Tim Wu, Historian of Information Empiresnew

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