AltWeeklies Wire
Aural Litnew
Book reviewer and author Jonathan Lowe is finding more and more success in the audio-book field.
Tucson Weekly |
James Reel |
01-13-2005 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Fame Island, Jonathan Lowe
Trail of Beersnew
Woody Kipp's self-portrait is essentially Act I in the story of his life, from his birth and immediate adoption to his participation in the American Indian Movement and the siege at Wounded Knee, S.D.
Missoula Independent |
Andy Smetanka |
01-06-2005 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
Susan Sontag (1933-2004)new
Essayist and novelist Susan Sontag was the indispensable voice of moral responsibility, perceptual clarity, passionate (and passionately reasonable) advocacy: for aesthetic pleasure, for social justice, for unembarrassed hedonism, for life against death.
The Village Voice |
Gary Indiana |
01-05-2005 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
Tags: 9/11, novels, Sarajevo, courage, Death Kit, In America, Six Day War, Susan Sontag, The Volcano Lover
Audioshave: What's Lost in the Abridgmentnew
Nobody really likes abridgments of audiobooks. The listeners who don't mind them are generally unaware of how much they're missing.
The Village Voice |
Lawrence Block |
01-03-2005 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
Author Expects Bitter Fight in Iraq to Continuenew
The Toronto author who covered the invasion of Iraq for Harper's asks when Americans will realize that the vestige of democracy is gone and they're living under a totalitarian regime.
Montreal Mirror |
Juliet Waters |
12-08-2004 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
The Man Who Rolled the Beatles' First Jointnew
Al Aronowitz says the '60s wouldn't have been the same without him. Now, as he types away alone in his cluttered New Jersey apartment, the "Blacklisted Journalist" looks back.
Boston Phoenix |
Mike Miliard |
12-03-2004 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
Girls, Interruptednew
In Growing Up Fast, documentarian Joanna Lipper offered a piercing look at teen motherhood. Now her book lets six young mothers tell their stories in their own words.
Boston Phoenix |
Camille Dodero |
12-01-2004 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
Subterranean Homesick Bluesnew
While most people in New York canvass the city's surface for bars and parks, or look toward the sky or ocean for added entertainment, Solis has a long history of reaching below the earth's crust and noting what goes on beneath that superficial first layer of dirt.
The Village Voice |
Amy Braunschweiger |
11-24-2004 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
The Ebb and Flow of American Beer Culturenew
In a quixotic journey to find “The Perfect Beer Joint,” the novelist and long-time Wall Street Journal writer Ken Wells embarked on a perambulating journey down the length of the Mississippi River to see what he could see and sip what he could sip. Travels with Barley, the fizzy and flavorful travelogue that resulted, is appropriately intoxicating.
Boston Phoenix |
Mike Miliard |
11-22-2004 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
The Old Man and the Secretarynew
Valerie Danby-Smith lived with Hemingway in Cuba; she wrote out his correspondence; she typed out the chapters to A Moveable Feast; she stayed up late with him, trying to ease his insomnia; she was a receptive student to his natural and eager teaching.
Missoula Independent |
Azita Osanloo |
11-18-2004 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
Hard Timesnew
Seth Mnookin reflects on his journey from junkie to Newsweek media expert to profiler of the scandals at the New York Times.
Boston Phoenix |
Tamara Wieder |
11-16-2004 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Hard News, Seth Mnookin
An Unleashed Voicenew
The slam scene unleashed Patricia Smith's voice as a poet. And it cushioned her later, after she was accused of fabricating some of her columns in The Boston Globe.
Tucson Weekly |
Joan Schuman |
11-04-2004 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Close to Death, Patricia Smith
Author Looks to Unlock Truth of Houdini's Final Vanishing Actnew
J. Gordon Whitehead visited Houdini backstage and punched the master of escape in the stomach. Houdini died a few days later. Was it murder or a dumb prank gone wrong? Don Bell, one of Montreal's great essayists, spent the last two decades of his life tackling the mystery.
Montreal Mirror |
Kristian Gravenor |
11-04-2004 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
Diary of a Pranksternew
His new novel may be his most traditional yet, but Chuck Palahniuk is still keeping the book world off balance.
Metro Silicon Valley |
Gary Singh |
10-28-2004 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Chuck Palahniuk, Diary
Oh, I Could Read a Case of You!new
A book looks at famously drunk writers, their habits, their battles and their very rare recoveries.
Mountain Xpress |
Cecil Bothwell |
10-27-2004 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
