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Professor of Punk Pens a Piece of Historynew
The punk musician's debut memoir is about his childhood misadventures. They take place in the wealthy, WASP-y town of Greenwich, Conn., where he never fit in.
Phoenix New Times |
Michele Laudig |
09-28-2004 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
Author of The Outsiders Leaves the Young Adult Sectionnew
S.E. Hinton's Hawkes Harbor marks her first voyage into the fantastic. The novel about street-tough orphan Jamie Sommers features pirates, jewel smugglers and one extended encounter with a vampire.
New York Press |
Brian Heater |
09-24-2004 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
The Prodigal Fathernew
Nick Flynn creates a harrowing memoir about two men bound by blood and by the dark worlds they inhabit.
Boston Phoenix |
Mike Miliard |
09-24-2004 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
Roach Against the Machinenew
A writer fears that "La Cucaracha," the first mainstream Chicano-centric comic strip, will be sold down -- no, across the river
San Diego CityBeat |
Will K. Shilling |
09-22-2004 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
The Original Playboy Star: An Interview With Joe Namath's Biographernew
Biographer Mark Kriegel tells how he pursued the story of Joe Namath, the football star who was both old-school tough guy and new-fangled hustler. In late middle age, Namath found himself in pain and alone with a bottle.
New York Press |
C.J. Sullivan |
09-17-2004 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
The American Nightmare: Will We Be Eclipsed by the European Union?new
Jeremy Rifkin elaborates on his assertion that the European Union, and not the United States, is the humanist dream factory of tomorrow.
L.A. Weekly |
Brendan Bernhard |
09-17-2004 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
Bern Porter, Poet, Scientist, Mail Artist, Dies at 93new
One of the most interesting characters in American letters died earlier this year, to little notice. This is a retrospective of his career, including a visit to his hometown's historical society and to his now disused home.
Portland Phoenix |
Alex Irvine |
09-15-2004 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
Populist Pundit Molly Ivins Rides Herd on Washington's Big Dogsnew
Molly Ivins doesn't believe in conspiracy theories, but she does believe that there is such a thing as outrageous chutzpah. In an interview, she gives her take on political namecalling, Bush's use of the Christian right, new overtime rules and political advertising by 527 organizations.
Creative Loafing (Tampa) |
David Bramer |
09-14-2004 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
Lost and Foundnew
For Davy Rothbart, discarded scribblings open up a world of meaning.
Boston Phoenix |
Tamara Wieder |
09-09-2004 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
He's a Carolina Pranksternew
The protagonist of Singleton's new novel, Mendal Dawes, grows up in the, uh, 100 percent fictional small mill town of Forty-Five, S.C., son to a brilliant if somewhat unbalanced trickster of an anarchist-liberal who continually disrupts the town's banal busybodies and proselytizing religious nuts. Turns out, Singleton is writing from experience.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Thomas Bell |
09-09-2004 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
Story of the First Death Row Inmate Cleared by DNAnew
This story has all the elements of a classic American tale: a gruesome murder and a simple man, falsely accused, who fights the system and wins. The controversial issues of the death penalty and the abuses of the criminal-justice system form its core.
Baltimore City Paper |
Scott Carlson |
09-08-2004 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Bloodsworth, Tim Junkin
A 1970 Race Murder in North Carolina is Recalled
Tim Tyson was 10 years old when a black man was murdered in his hometown for allegedly making a remark to a white man's wife. The accused killers were acquitted by an all-white jury. Tyson, now a professor of Afro-American studies, makes sense of the murder in his new book.
Isthmus |
Ellen Meany |
09-07-2004 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Blood Done Sign My Name, Tim Tyson
The Illustrator at War: A Q&A With Steve Brodnernew
The cartoonist's trademark style is perhaps best described as psychedelic-progressive. If Howard Zinn ever enjoyed peyote visions, they'd likely find a home in Brodner's nightmarish political dreamscapes.
New York Press |
Alexander Zaitchik |
08-26-2004 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
Last Great Poet of Eastern Europe Dies at 93new
Czeslaw Milosz's poetry -- scattered over 20 books, a lifework for which he won the Nobel Prize -- adumbrated the moral and political strife of a Europe in ruin.
New York Press |
Joshua Cohen |
08-26-2004 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
The Poet Goes Straight: Cop's Daughter Slips and Rises Back Upnew
Once a strung-out heroin addict, poet Jackie Sheeler runs a Friday-night open mic for poetry readings at the Cornelius St. Cafe and started poetz.com to help neophyte writers.
New York Press |
C.J. Sullivan |
08-25-2004 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
