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George Saunders Talks Fiction, Vonnegut, & Johnny Tremainnew
Saunders is an anthropologist of American culture who issues his findings in terms of crazily inventive fiction.
Pittsburgh City Paper |
Bill O'Driscoll |
10-01-2007 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
Mark Z. Danielewski Frustrates Critics, Dyslexicsnew
Depending on who you ask, Mark Z. Danielewski's House of Leaves is either the greatest literary achievement since Finnegans Wake, or a hopelessly pretentious gimmick -- his latest book, Only Revolutions, widens the divide even more
Dig Boston |
Mark Baumer |
09-27-2007 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
Touched by Gracenew
On Andre Dubus's unending gifts.
Boston Phoenix |
Nina MacLaughlin |
09-27-2007 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
Tags: andre dubus
Kathryn Miller Haines Creates Winner in Rosie Winternew
Pittsburgh mystery author's Miss Winter was published in June; Haines has completed a sequel, The Winter of Her Discontent, due out next June.
Pittsburgh City Paper |
Staff |
09-25-2007 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
Danialewski Challenges Readers with Second Novelnew
Even seasoned readers might feel a twinge of confusion, frustration or panic upon first opening Only Revolutions. Each page offers either three or four patches of text, rendered in as many different fonts and type sizes; at least one patch is upside down.
Pittsburgh City Paper |
Bill O'Driscoll |
09-25-2007 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
Jennifer Worick: Seattle's Busiest Author?new
Worick has little patience for authors trying to crank out the Great American Novel; she's too busy getting published — about 20 books, by her count, over the past half-dozen years.
Seattle Weekly |
Brian Miller |
09-25-2007 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
Poet Pens Subversive Detective Stories Set in Chinanew
Qiu Xiaolong's creative and personal life has long been shaped by the politics of his communist homeland. It was politics that first pushed him to write and study poetry, and later induced him to immigrate to the United States.
Riverfront Times |
Malcolm Gay |
09-24-2007 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Qiu Xiaolong, Red Mandarin Dress
America the Bullynew
Author Chalmers Johnson gives his controversial view of what our nation is really all about.
Pasadena Weekly |
Joe Piasecki |
09-24-2007 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
John Dean Talks Fundamentals and Fundamentalistsnew
The former counsel to President Nixon turned Watergate prosecution witness has produced a third volume in his campaign against the modern Republican party.
San Antonio Current |
Elaine Wolff |
09-20-2007 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
'Dukecity Sign*' Captures the Soul of Alburquerquenew
How a strange, self-published book of awful, full-color photographs of signs became an astonishingly original homage to the true soul of a city.
Weekly Alibi |
Steven Robert Allen |
09-18-2007 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Ben Adams, Dukecity Sign*
'The Waltzing Senator' Artist Tom Foster Dishes on Artnew
For the last 40-odd years, Foster has sketched courtroom trials, painted artwork for movie and theater sets, and designed flyers and album art for bands ranging from Big Star to the North Mississippi Allstars.
The Memphis Flyer |
Andria Lisle |
09-14-2007 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
Tags: The Waltzing Senator, Tom Foster
'God is Dead' Explores the Potential Aftershocks of God's Deathnew
Throughout this surprising, funny, and often provocative book, Currie imbues his characters with a sobriety that allows his audacious concepts to take root.
Portland Phoenix |
Christopher Gray |
09-13-2007 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
Tags: God is Dead, Ron Currie Jr
Our Town?new
Keillor's new Lake Wobegon novel is the story of funeral ashes, a green bowling ball, a parasail, and the deceased's secret life. Don't be sad.
Boston Phoenix |
Jeffrey Gantz |
09-13-2007 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Garrison Keillor, Pontoon
Naomi Klein Looks at Shock Wave Troopers in New Booknew
The Shock Doctrine exposes the economic ambulance chasers who take advantage of natural and economic disasters worldwide.
The Georgia Straight |
Brian Lynch |
09-11-2007 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
The Calvert Institute's George Liebmann Preaches Thinking Locallynew
The Trimmer's Almanac is a history of Baltimore's conservative think tank and includes articles that hash out policy problems and often move toward solutions.
Baltimore City Paper |
John Barry |
09-04-2007 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
