AltWeeklies Wire
Richard Price is One of Our Best Chroniclers of Street Lifenew
Price's recently released and bestselling eighth novel is Lush Life, another sprawling work. A restaurant worker is gunned down in a gentrifying neighborhood on the Lower East Side of New York, and two streetwise cops hit the pavement to find out what happened. The answer isn't simple, as it never is in Price's stories.
New Haven Advocate |
Jim Motavalli |
06-10-2008 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
Terrance Dean Responds to Our Reading of His Lifenew
Orlando Weekly: It surprised me how much self-loathing you went through, even for a gay man. It seems like yours was stronger due to your religious background.
Terrance Dean: Exactly.
Terrance Dean: Exactly.
Orlando Weekly |
Justin Strout |
06-05-2008 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
Carl Honore Puts On the Brakes with 'In Praise of Slowness'new
"I think that when you eat in a Slow way -- that is with a capital S -- you realize that when you put something in your mouth that there is a whole story behind it," he says. "We've lost all of that back story to our food that's been shorn away in this fast-forward culture."
Boulder Weekly |
Erica Grossman |
06-02-2008 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
To Food Writer Amy Trubek, Vermont Tastes Like the Futurenew
Trubek's just-released book The Taste of Place: A Cultural Journey into Terroir is a shot across the bow of our old system of thought and commerce. But more fundamentally, it shows how a renewed appreciation of the magic of local flavor might just save our collective bacon.
Seven Days |
Matt Scanlon |
06-02-2008 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
Libby Fischer Hellmann Explores the Secrets of the Suburbsnew
She sets her whodunits in the land of never-ending lawns.
Chicago Reader |
Patrick Daily |
06-02-2008 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
After the Kids Go to Bed, Steven Sidor Lets the Darkness Innew
His first two books -- Bone Factory and Skin River -- oozed with evil. His latest, The Mirror's Edge, tops them both. It's about two kidnapped boys, likely -- or perhaps not? -- the victims of a spooky children's book illustrator, the son of a practitioner of the black arts.
Chicago Reader |
Jonathan Black |
06-02-2008 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Steven Sidor, The Mirror's Edge
Achy Obejas Uses the Noir Form to Explore Her Cuban Rootsnew
The 18 stories collected in the anthology Havana Noir are nothing if not messy. The Havana reflected in its pages is coldly violent and explosively loving. It's vibrant, brutal, amoral, sordid, romantic, idealistic, pragmatic, and gleefully ambiguous.
Chicago Reader |
Martha Bayne |
06-02-2008 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
British Scholar Peter Hallward Examines Foreign Meddling in Haitinew
Damming the Flood is a formidably researched account of the 2004 coup that is critical of foreign intervention in Haiti.
Montreal Mirror |
Samer Elatrash |
05-30-2008 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
Brendan Mullen Revisits the Burn-hot, Burn-fast Punk Life of L.A.new
As he did in his earlier books, We Got the Neutron Bomb: The Untold Story of L.A. Punk and Lexicon Devil: The Fast Times and Short Life of Darby Crash and the Germs, Mullen documents, with hundreds of photos and fliers and memento mori, the history of the Masque.
Willamette Week |
Nancy Rommelmann |
05-28-2008 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
Christopher LaMarca's Camera Captures the Standoff Over Old-growth Forestsnew
Armed with only his Hasselblad camera, LaMarca followed the protesters as they set up roadblocks on logging roads and bridges and held continual "tree sits" to stop the Biscuit timber sale.
Willamette Week |
Joseph Watts |
05-28-2008 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
Rick Bragg Completes His Family Saganew
In The Prince of Frogtown, the book he wrote to put the ghost of his own father to rest, Bragg concludes the set of family tales he began with All Over But the Shoutin' and expanded on in Ava's Man.
Charleston City Paper |
Jason A. Zwiker |
05-28-2008 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Rick Bragg, The Prince of Frogtown
James Frey on Fact, Fiction and Doing It Once More, with Feelingnew
Frey's Lazarus-like literary return is Bright Shiny Morning, his first (complete) fiction novel. Like most subjects related to Frey, it's causing a polarizing shitstorm.
Philadelphia Weekly |
Bob Hill |
05-27-2008 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
Chuck Palahniuk Talks 'Snuff'new
He talks at length about his ninth and latest novel, Fight Club and fainting spells.
Colorado Springs Independent |
Matthew Schniper |
05-23-2008 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
'The Open Road' Distills the Dalai Lama's Teachingsnew
The idea of loss as an opportunity for growth is at the heart of Pico Iyer's latest book -- a culmination of more than 30 years of conversation with Tenzin Gyatso, otherwise known as His Holiness the Dalai Lama, leader of the Tibetan people.
Santa Barbara Independent |
Elizabeth Schwyzer |
05-20-2008 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
Dennis N. Griffin Sets the Record Straight on the Vegas Mobnew
From his consulting on the Vegas Mob Tour by bus here in town, to the speaking engagements he conducts showing scenes from the film Casino and setting the record straight, Griffin wants you to know the real story about the mob in Vegas.
Las Vegas Weekly |
Danny Axelrod |
05-16-2008 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
