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'Blood Passion' Looks at a Rocky Mountain Lownew
It was the early 1990s when journalist Scott Martelle first read about how more than two dozen people had been killed when National Guardsmen and company detectives opened fire on a tent village of striking copper miners' families in Colorado almost a century ago. The curiosity grew into an obsession, culminating in his new book.
Metro Times |
Michael Jackman |
10-23-2007 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
Nikita Lalwani on Being a Booker Long-Listernew
Her edgy debut looks at the devastating conflict in an immigrant family between a child math prodigy and her demanding parents.
NOW Magazine |
Susan G. Cole |
10-19-2007 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Gifted, Nikita Lalwani
In Exile: Maung Tharanew
When four Burmese students were sentenced to seven years in prison for carrying one of his books, Thara decided it was time to escape the country before he met a similar fate. Now he lives in Buffalo, where he talked to us about about his exile, his country and the recent protests there.
Artvoice |
Ken Ilgunas |
10-19-2007 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Maung Thara, Smiling and Nodding
3rd Degree: John Deannew
The author and onetime Watergate figure on the crimes of Bush, the real Dick Cheney, and Nixon as environmentalist.
Los Angeles CityBeat |
Steve Appleford |
10-19-2007 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Broken Government, John Dean
Carl Bernstein's Epic Hillary Talenew
All the President's Men co-author Bernstein turns in a 648-page unauthorized biography about a well-known woman he claims nobody really knows -- we get to the heart of why Bernstein wrote it and what the reaction has been.
Salt Lake City Weekly |
Jerre Wroble |
10-18-2007 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
Dr. Oliver Sacks on 'Musicophilia'new
Sacks' latest book tackles our intimate mental connection to all things musical. It dallies in the minds of inspired amnesiacs and melodious Alzheimer's patients in an effort to explain just what it is about music that can move us so profoundly.
Willamette Week |
Claire Evans |
10-17-2007 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
Classical Music Critic Alex Ross Rewrites Historynew
The New Yorker critic's new book, The Rest Is Noise, demonstrates his storyteller's gift for the engaging anecdote, humor and evocative description, to the 20th century's kaleidoscopic, tumultuous, non-pop musical history.
Willamette Week |
Brett Campbell |
10-17-2007 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
Podcast: Robert Reich on 'Supercapitalism'new
The former labor secretary talks about about economics, industry, and the pervasive creep of new capitalism's moral degradations.
San Francisco Bay Guardian |
Tim Redmond |
10-17-2007 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
Alberto Manguel on Optimismnew
The anthologist, essayist, and translator argues that in stories we can find our salvation.
The Georgia Straight |
John Burns |
10-12-2007 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Alberto Manguel, The City of Words
Brit Witsnew
As Nick Hornby and Irvine Welsh face 50, two of Brit Lit's standard-bearers stare down middle age in very different ways.
Boston Phoenix |
Mike Miliard |
10-11-2007 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
Yo, Adriannew
A conversation with graphic novelist Adrian Tomine.
Sacramento News & Review |
Jonathan Kiefer |
10-09-2007 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Adrian Tomine, Shortcomings
Blaine Taylor's Bunker Mentalitynew
As Ken Burns' latest monolith airs on PBS, a Maryland writer shows human side of different front.
Baltimore City Paper |
John Barry |
10-09-2007 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
David Sedaris Is Taking Notesnew
While we're still months away from pulling out our Christmas tree, David Sedaris is sitting at his home in Paris, wrapping presents. The popular humorist will be stateside for a month as he tours the country with nightly readings of fresh material with his notoriously nasal, yet powdered delivery.
Charleston City Paper |
Greg Hambrick |
10-03-2007 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
Tags: David Sedaris, NPR
Alice Walker Opens Children's Eyes to Realities of Warnew
Kids and grownups everywhere are lucky Harper Collins was willing to print Why War is Never a Good Idea's thought-provoking eloquence.
Weekly Alibi |
Marisa Demarco |
10-02-2007 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
CAConrad Draws Us in to His Kafka-esque Dream Statenew
Calling CAConrad "in your face" doesn't quite do it -- if the Philadelphia poet had his way, he'd be down your throat, stuck in your gut and up your ass.
Philadelphia City Paper |
A.D. Amorosi |
10-02-2007 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
Tags: CAConrad, The Frank Poems
