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Let's Talk About Sexnew
Eric Berkowitz illustrates how the punishment doesn't always fit the crime.
East Bay Express |
Alison Peters |
05-31-2012 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
Angry Man Buzz Bissinger Writes Heartwrenching Memoir About His Sonnew
"I first saw him through the window of a hospital operation room," writes Bissinger. "Doctors and nurses surrounded him in a tight circle. He was a bloody quiver in their hands."
Philadelphia Weekly |
Tara Murtha |
05-09-2012 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Buzz Bissinger
Poetry is Not Dead, It's Eternalnew
An interview with D. A. Powell, Jonathan Galassi and the last unpublished poem by Allen Grossman.
Planet Jackson Hole |
Richard Abowitz |
05-04-2012 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
The Final Leapnew
In his new book, John Bateson takes on Golden Gate Bridge suicides.
East Bay Express |
Ellen Cushing |
04-19-2012 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
Revolutionary Musicnew
Pat Thomas' Listen, Whitey! The Sights and Sounds of Black Power 1965-1975 sets the record straight.
East Bay Express |
Alison Peters |
04-13-2012 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
The Whole Enchilada : ¡Ask a Mexican! columnist Gustavo Arellano talks taco shop with a restaurant criticnew
In 2006, the Weekly Alibi became the only newspaper with the cojones to take a chance on a newly syndicated column called ¡Ask a Mexican! Six years later, the racy Q & A runs weekly in 39 newspapers around the country. Gustavo Arellano has snuck into our hearts like a border-crosser in the trunk of an Impala.
To get the skinny—if there is such a thing—on Mexican food in the U.S., Alibi restaurant critic Ari LeVaux broke tortillas with Arellano about his new book, Taco USA: How Mexican Food Conquered America.
Weekly Alibi |
Ari LeVaux |
04-13-2012 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
Elements of a Novelnew
Earth, water, and the disappeared connect in Carolina De Robertis' Perla.
East Bay Express |
Alison Peters |
04-03-2012 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Carolina De Robertis, Perla
Worlds Collide in Thomas Christensen's '1616'new
An action-packed year in profile.
East Bay Express |
Alison Peters |
04-02-2012 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
Ellen Ullman Explores Her Inner Darkness With 'By Blood'new
A wickedly smart, deeply creepy thriller of the San Francisco Gothic kind.
East Bay Express |
Stefanie Kalem |
04-02-2012 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
The Books Issue 2012new
Excerpts from Mitch Ryder's memoirs, poetry from Terry Blackhawk, a Q&A with co-author Steve Babson on a biography of attorney Ernie Goodman, pulp fiction from the mean streets of Detroit and suburban Ferndale, and more.
Metro Times |
Mitch Ryder, W. Kim Heron, Michael Jackman, Christa Buchanan and Dan Merritt |
03-21-2012 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
Kris Saknussemm: Bent and Reverentnew
The author takes the dirty backroads home in Reverend America.
East Bay Express |
Stefanie Kalem |
03-09-2012 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Kris Saknussemm
Ray of Lightnew
Despite a life wracked by abuse and loss, a Tucson author heals others through his writing.
Tucson Weekly |
Jarret Keene |
03-09-2012 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
Tags: David Ray, Tucson authors
Moving West, Writing Eastnew
The life of a writer in the Southwest of the 1960s and '70s.
Tucson Weekly |
Tom Miller |
03-09-2012 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Tom miller, Tucson writers
The Wall Streeters Come Tumbling Downnew
Cristina Alger provides a privileged peek into New York's upper crust.
East Bay Express |
Stefanie Kalem |
03-08-2012 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Wall Street, Cristina Alger
Sandra Cisneros' Impact on Latino literaturenew
As nearly everyone now knows, Sandra Cisneros — the oft-times indigenously attired author who founded the Macondo Writers' Workshop here in 1998 and the Alfredo Cisneros del Moral Foundation two years later — is done with San Antonio.
San Antonio Current |
Roberto Ontiveros |
02-16-2012 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
