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Dark Starnew
Through meticulous research Charles R. Cross, who also wrote the Kurt Cobain biography Heavier Than Heaven, has blown away the hearsay lazily sustained by earlier Jimi Hendrix books.
Boston Phoenix |
Ted Drozdowski |
10-11-2005 |
Nonfiction
How Can You Laugh?new
With their embarrassing confessions, a new breed of authors begs to be humiliated.
East Bay Express |
Anneli Rufus |
10-10-2005 |
Books
Sleep With Menew
Because Neil Strauss drags The Game out to 437 pages, the book morphs into a grating, narcissistic Fight Club knockoff in which the author clumsily elevates his role from supporting playa to a sexual superstar.
Seattle Weekly |
Mike Seely |
10-07-2005 |
Nonfiction
Homeboy, Throw in the Towelnew
Famed honorary fourth Beastie Boy/New York City photographer Ricky Powell unloads on an unsuspecting reporter.
Dig Boston |
Paul McMorrow |
10-06-2005 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Ricky Powell
Heavyweight Champnew
Jim Harrison, writing at the top of his game, inhabits his characters without hijacking them.
Missoula Independent |
Brad Tyer |
10-06-2005 |
Fiction
She's Gotta Have Hitsnew
Pop-music interludes intrude on the story of a female music exec.
Baltimore City Paper |
Makkada B. Selah |
10-06-2005 |
Fiction
Tags: Bliss, Danyel Smith
A Near War on Junk Foodnew
Like the film Traffic on sugar and triglycerides, Christopher Largen's novel Junk takes us on a tour of a near future "war" on junk food, complete with a food czar, a Food Enforcement Agency, and mandatory sentences for possession of hamburgers, doughnuts and milk shakes.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Thomas Bell |
10-06-2005 |
Fiction
A Woman at Warnew
A former military-intelligence sergeant of the 101st Airborne Division writes of her year in Iraq.
Seattle Weekly |
Laura Cassidy |
10-05-2005 |
Nonfiction
The Paper Chasenew
Follow the money or follow the script? The real point to this fun Hollywood spoof is its prose storm of confusion.
Seattle Weekly |
Tim Appelo |
10-05-2005 |
Fiction
Tags: Rick Moody, The Diviners
Of Mice and Magicnew
Kid lit has gone way beyond the classic Winnie-the-Pooh.
Seattle Weekly |
Roger Downey |
10-05-2005 |
Books
Lotus-Eaters and Literatinew
Novelist Bret Easton Ellis has skewered the demimonde of Los Angeles and New York City. Why couldn't he do the same for South Beach, Florida?
Miami New Times |
Brett Sokol |
10-03-2005 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
Tales of a Quitternew
A book-long narrative rather than the usual series of semi-epiphanic moments, The Quitter is the most substantive and rewarding look yet at the strangely compelling life of the Lake Erie everyman.
Boston Phoenix |
Mike Miliard |
09-30-2005 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
Bob Morris: Dead but Not Donenew
When people say they don't give a "flying fuck," typically it's just an expression. But it's explained plausibly as a water-slide activity in Jamaica Me Dead, the second installment of Bob Morris's Caribbean mystery trilogy.
Orlando Weekly |
Lindy T. Shepherd |
09-30-2005 |
Fiction
Tags: Jamaica Me Dead, Lindy T. Shepherd
All You Wanted to Know About Mackin'
King Flex offers wannabe playas dubious advice for scoring more high quality honeys and fewer chickenheads and hoodrats.
Columbus Alive |
J. Caleb Mozzocco |
09-29-2005 |
Nonfiction
Fossil Feud
Graphic novel digs up the too good to be anything but true story of the warring paleontologists who introudced America to the dinosuars, plus the sex secrets of alternative cartoonists.
Columbus Alive |
J. Caleb Mozzocco |
09-29-2005 |
Nonfiction
