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Raising Hellnew
Clive Barker, whose paintings are colorful, ornate and sometimes highly erotic, unleashes his demons.
Colorado Springs Independent |
Kara Luger |
10-28-2005 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
Remembering the Leveenew
A new collection of stories recalls the heyday of the Levee, a seedy district in downtown Springfield, Ill., that was also home to the city’s gay community.
Illinois Times |
Townsend Shoulders |
10-28-2005 |
Fiction
Twee Hugger
The biographer is clearly smitten with his subject -- which is both blessing and curse.
Washington City Paper |
Anne Marson |
10-27-2005 |
Nonfiction
Don't Quit Now
What does Harvey Pekar still have left to reveal about himself? How about his secret origin?
Columbus Alive |
J. Caleb Mozzocco |
10-27-2005 |
Original Work
Tags: Harvey Pekar, The Quitter
Canonizing Morrissey
"MetroDaddy" Mark Simpson offers a unique sortabiography of the former Smiths frontman -- one worth reading.
Columbus Alive |
J. Caleb Mozzocco |
10-27-2005 |
Nonfiction
Tags: Mark Simpson, Saint Morrissey
Alan Lomax Uncovered: Challenging the Delta Historiannew
Alan Lomax has long been a controversial figure among roots-music insiders. Lost Delta Found inflames that controversy with the publication of work by other researchers that Lomax used without proper attribution.
Boston Phoenix |
Ted Drozdowski |
10-27-2005 |
Nonfiction
Eden Moore Sees Dead Peoplenew
If you're looking for a Stephen King-style, piss-your-pants fright fest, Four and Twenty Blackbirds will disappoint. Priest is at times overly clinical, and many of the main character's ghosts hold no more terror than a kiss from your stinky Aunt Edna.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Thomas Bell |
10-27-2005 |
Fiction
Cluck Corporate Americanew
Two books get inside the big businesses of corporate farming and poultry production.
Baltimore City Paper |
Scott Carlson |
10-26-2005 |
Nonfiction
He’s Serlarious
Al Franken, known for being both hilarious and serious, says he has bigger fish to fry in his new book: the Bush administration and Congress.
The Inlander |
Ted S. McGregor Jr. |
10-26-2005 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Al Franken, The Truth (With Jokes)
Crisis Indeednew
The DC universe goes off the deep end.
Boston Phoenix |
Douglas Wolk |
10-21-2005 |
Fiction
Was the War Really Necessary?new
A best-selling history of the Revolutionary War makes a reader wonder if that first war could have been avoided and whether its ultimate success, and the consequent linking of violence with freedom, led to the war in Iraq.
Illinois Times |
Fletcher Farrar |
10-21-2005 |
Nonfiction
Deep Southnew
Literary lion Ernest Gaines still has a thing or two to teach young black writers.
Baltimore City Paper |
R. Darryl Foxworth |
10-20-2005 |
Fiction
A Taste Of Honey
With her .38 and 38-inch bust, '50s pulp fiction heroine Honey West returns to bookshelves in a reprint of her first adventure.
Columbus Alive |
Bob Starker |
10-20-2005 |
Fiction
The Life of a Pretty Boynew
Tab Hunter was the pretty boy pin-up of an entire generation of teenage girls, and Hollywood spent much of the 1950s finding excuses to film him with his shirt off.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Thomas Bell |
10-20-2005 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
Blood on the Tracksnew
A racing freight train couldn't stop Sean Rowe, but can he survive the wild world of book publishing?
New Times Broward-Palm Beach |
Bob Norman |
10-18-2005 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
