AltWeeklies Wire
Charles Stross Brings Robert Heinlein's Robot Sexy Backnew
For those uninitiated to speculative fiction's history and tropes, Stross' Saturn's Children (Ace) is a simple tale about a sex robot who is out of work because the humans she was built to service are extinct.
Baltimore City Paper |
Adrienne Martini |
08-05-2008 |
Fiction
Jenny Block Refuses to Let Monogamy Ruin Her Marriagenew
In her new book, Open: Love, Sex, and Life in an Open Marriage, Block traces her path from monogamy to infidelity to polyamory, being in an intimate relationship with more than one person.
Baltimore City Paper |
Heather Harris |
08-05-2008 |
Nonfiction
Ronald Hinton May Have Confessed to Rape and Murder, but Did He Really Do It?new
The confession of Hinton, who was convicted of raping a murdering a child, outweighed indications that he might not have done it.
Baltimore City Paper |
Van Smith |
08-05-2008 |
Crime & Justice
Lavinia Greenlaw's Book is for Anyone Who Was Ever a Girl or Has Ever Loved Musicnew
Music's remorseless grip on our hearts and minds is the subject of British novelist and poet Lavinia Greenlaw's slow-burning, exquisitely idiosyncratic new book, The Importance of Music to Girls. In bite-sized chapters, Greenlaw hurtles down the rabbit hole and reconstructs her musical education, starting with her earliest memories and ending with her leaving school.
New Haven Advocate |
Jolisa Gracewood |
08-05-2008 |
Fiction
Why a Palestinian Town is Suing Two Canadian Companiesnew
Accused of war crimes for their involvement with Israeli settlement expansion, two Quebec-registered companies are being sued in Canada by the occupied West Bank Palestinian village of Bi'lin.
Montreal Mirror |
Jesse Rosenfeld |
08-05-2008 |
International
Dig the New Breed; The Apatow Comedy Spree Continues
"Pineapple Express" could easily be titled the "Apatow Express" for the way it expands on Judd Apatow's influence as a modern-day Mel Brooks. The title refers to a hybrid kind of marijuana so rare that to smoke it is akin to "killing a unicorn."
The Seeing Eyeballs Release 'Who Always Puts Acid in My Coffee?'new
Just as rootsy as it is spacey, Acid in My Coffee moves restlessly through the lo-fi underground, like a subterranean UFO abducting your senses in the blink of an eye.
Pittsburgh City Paper |
Andrew McKeon |
08-04-2008 |
Profiles & Interviews
Leslie Anne Mcilroy's 'Liquid Like This' is Passionate, Well-crafted Versenew
Mcilroy uses formal care to set off raw emotion, insurgent thoughts, a lubricated imagination full of jazz horns, yanked-up skirts, lipstick traces, let-down lovers, open wounds and cold beers.
Pittsburgh City Paper |
Bill O'Driscoll |
08-04-2008 |
Poetry
'Innercity Girl Like Me' Reads Like a Memoir But It's Fictionnew
The market is flooded with terribly written sensationalist survival stories, and Innercity Girl Like Me seems to aspire to be one of them.
NOW Magazine |
Zoe Whittall |
08-04-2008 |
Fiction
Lien Chao's 'The Chinese Knot' Offers Unique Perspectivenew
All these stories are told from the point of view of single Chinese-Canadian women, who make up an intriguing demographic. Many of them came to Canada in the 80s and 90s only to experience painful family conflict – usually ending in divorce – once they got here.
NOW Magazine |
Staff |
08-04-2008 |
Fiction
South African Hip-hop Hero Tumi Goes Solonew
Tumi has the verbal dexterity of Pharoahe Monch and the lyrical clarity of Nasir Jones. His moniker often gets bandied about in "who's the best MC?" conversations across the globe.
NOW Magazine |
Addi Stewart |
08-04-2008 |
Profiles & Interviews
Rick Ross' Rough Real Talk Turns Out to Be Not So Real After Allnew
How stunning was it when The Smoking Gun discovered that Ross, one of hip-hop's most popular new artists, was really a former Florida Department of Corrections officer named William Leonard Roberts?
NOW Magazine |
Addi Stewart |
08-04-2008 |
Profiles & Interviews
Alt.health: Your Daily Routine Could Be Cooking Your Spermnew
There are a lot of things that might make you shoot blanks. Among them are obesity, pesticides, stress, heat, smoking and drinking.
NOW Magazine |
Elizabeth Bromstein |
08-04-2008 |
Advice
Ecoholic: Sniffing Out Radioactive Gases in Your Kitchen and Basementnew
I heard that radioactive radon gas could be coming from my granite counters as well as my basement. Should I worry?
NOW Magazine |
Adria Vasil |
08-04-2008 |
Advice
Bon Iver is Trying To Break Your Heartnew
How a Wisconsin winter inspired one of the years most talked about albums.
Philadelphia Weekly |
Andy Hines |
08-04-2008 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Bon Iver, For Emma, Forever Ago
