AltWeeklies Wire
'What Rhymes With Bastard?': Best. Book. Title. Ever.new
Linda Robertson's memoir recounts the crash-and-burn of her relationship with a tall, thin, slope-shouldered, coke-snorting, ecstasy-swallowing, vodka-swilling chainsmoker who loved anal sex. (She hated it.)
East Bay Express |
Anneli Rufus |
09-24-2008 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
A Brief and Wondrous Interview with Junot Diaznew
Diaz is the "It Kid" in literature today. The author of the 1996 short story collection Drown, he was awarded this year's Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for his first novel, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao.
Weekly Alibi |
Erin Adair-Hodges |
09-23-2008 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Pulitzer Prize, Junot Diaz
'Dr. Vino' Talks 'Wine Politics'new
Wine Politics compares the byzantine, quasi-self-governing appellation system of Bordeaux's wine growers with that of the more government-regulated Napa Valley producers and shows how those individual systems, along with other factors, determine which wines end up in stores, how much they cost, and what they taste like.
Chicago Reader |
Mike Sula |
09-22-2008 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
Philip Roth Looks Back on a Legendary Career, and Forward to His Final Actnew
The backward-looking, documentary storytelling impulse in Indignation is a continuation of a growing vein of Roth's work in the past decade, books obsessed and possessed by American history.
Las Vegas Weekly |
John Freeman |
09-19-2008 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
Ronald Wright Condemns the Short History of Yankee Progress in 'What Is America?'new
It must be tough being Ronald Wright. As a blisteringly insightful historian with eyes as much on the future as the past, it’s easy to imagine how painful it must be to live here in the early 21st century and watch as the United States leaves a trail of blood across the globe.
Monday Magazine |
John Threlfall |
09-18-2008 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
Overhead Bagage: David Foster Wallace, 1962-2008new
DFW possessed a brain that was crowded with doubt -- about his own ability, sure, and in the larger sense, the ability of any of us to adequately express anything.
Boston Phoenix |
Nina MacLaughlin |
09-18-2008 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
Tags: David Foster Wallace, obituaries
Religions Battle it Out in 'Wag the Dog' Author Larry Beinhart's New Thrillernew
From the outset, Salvation Boulevard was meant to be much more than a garden-variety murder mystery. "I woke up one morning in the 21st century and thought I was having a bad acid flashback of the 12th," Beinhart muses now.
East Bay Express |
Anneli Rufus |
09-17-2008 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
Author of 'Ten-Cent Plague' Explores Outlaw Comicsnew
The '40s and '50s were a time of political persecution for the authors of early alternative comic books -- of congressional hearings, of blacklists and of book burnings only dimly remembered by history. But it's a time worth remembering, if not for its art, then for its lessons, says David Hajdu.
Style Weekly |
Chris Dovi |
09-17-2008 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
Scott Ritter Talks Iran, Nukes, and the Next Presidentnew
The former UN weapons inspector talks about the Bush administration's goals in the Middle East and what it means for the next president.
Shepherd Express |
Lisa Kaiser |
09-12-2008 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
Daniel Allen Cox Goes from Gay Porn to Literaturenew
When he was 22, Cox, then a baby-faced aspiring writer, ventured to New York where he hustled and worked in porn. Within two years, he'd graced the cover of a half dozen gay porn rags and appeared in various porn movies. Now he's penned a semi-autobiographical novel about his experiences.
Montreal Mirror |
Matthew Hays |
09-12-2008 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
Steven Pinker Drops the F-Bomb on Americanew
Harvard linguist Steven Pinker gives the most intellectually rigorous examination of a curse word since On Bullshit.
Boulder Weekly |
Dylan Otto Krider |
09-11-2008 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
The Amazing Life and Mysterious Death of Peter Iversnew
You've probably never heard of Peter Ivers. But the Massachusetts-born, Harvard-educated free spirit was a sort of Zelig of the late-'60s-to-early-'80s pop-cultural scene. And somebody beat him to death.
Boston Phoenix |
Mike Miliard |
09-11-2008 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
Novelist Megan Abbott is the New Queen of Noirnew
The Detroit writer hits Hollywood paydirt and turns on James Ellroy.
Metro Times |
Norene Cashen |
09-09-2008 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
Count Dante Recounts His Seven Years in an Incredibly Strange Fight Clubnew
In his new memoir Beer, Blood, and Cornmeal, Bob Calhoun describes a moment where wrestling grappled with surrealism, and surrealism won out with a suplex powerslam.
Chicago Reader |
Dan Kelly |
09-08-2008 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
Melanie Saxer Johnston's New Book Preserves Her Father's Memories of Liberating Buchenwaldnew
Although he spoke little to others about the worst of what he saw, Johnston is grateful that he shared those details with her. It allowed her to empathize with victims of all kinds.
East Bay Express |
Anneli Rufus |
09-04-2008 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
