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New Materialnew
Writer David Sedaris says he's never regretted exposing the idiosyncracies of his family members to a global audience.
Mountain Xpress |
Melanie McGee |
07-01-2005 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
Gay-Baiting Senator Clintonnew
This hot new book is full of innuendo that Hillary Clinton is a lesbian. Spreading such rumors is a typical ploy used to keep women in power from achieving higher leadership positions.
The Village Voice |
Kristen Lombardi |
07-01-2005 |
Nonfiction
Real Men Wear Pinknew
Founder of Code Pink Medea Benjamin says it's time to start planning to stop the next war, and to build a sustainable economy without oil.
INDY Week |
Bob Geary |
06-30-2005 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
Deep Impact
Cartoonist Ward Sutton takes and passes the book-collection test.
Columbus Alive |
J. Caleb Mozzocco |
06-30-2005 |
Nonfiction
The Essential Pleasures of Natural Foodsnew
Gina Mallet takes a few of the most significant foods in the Western Hemisphere and gives you a sobering account of how they've changed for the worse in the age of industrialization and paranoia.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Bill Addison |
06-30-2005 |
Nonfiction
It's Easy to Forget Violent Forces That Create Artnew
Kassten Alonso has translated the same techniques of ceramics into literature in Core: A Romance, a gorgeous, fractured novel about a homicidal sculptor of stone and ceramics.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Thomas Bell |
06-30-2005 |
Fiction
Tags: Core: A Romance, Kassten Alonso
Author A.V. Jones Cleans the Streets, One Dead Pigeon at a Timenew
The founder of the People for the Unethical Treatment of Pigeons enlightens the masses with his murderous ornithology.
Dig Boston |
Paul McMorrow |
06-29-2005 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
Hollis Gillespie Disdains Shame With Recovering Slutnew
Gillespie's second book covers some of her early adventures in motherhood, including bullet-proofing the baby's bedroom with cake pans and getting diverted from a Nicaraguan brothel by the case of her daughter Mae's missing mittens.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Thomas Bell |
06-28-2005 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
Literary Crunknew
Author Tamara Palmer digs deep into the formerly indie world of crunk country to explain the Dirty South's rap explosion.
Miami New Times |
Eric K. Arnold |
06-27-2005 |
Nonfiction
Say What?new
Three books look at the way language shifts, unfolds and changes as people adopt ever more efficient ways of pronouncing words.
East Bay Express |
Anneli Rufus |
06-27-2005 |
Nonfiction
When Words Collidenew
With Believer Books, Dorna Khazeni enters the rarely profitable world of translation to bring France's literary bad boy Michel Houellebecq to America.
East Bay Express |
David Downs |
06-27-2005 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Dorna Khazeni
Punched Punk Love
Bryan Lee O'Malley continues his epic, videogame-inspired Canadimanga about the fight of Scott Pilgrim's love life.
Columbus Alive |
J. Caleb Mozzocco |
06-23-2005 |
Fiction
Return to 'Neverwhere' -- again
British fantasist Neil Gaiman's Neverwhere gets its second adaptation, this time to comics.
Columbus Alive |
J. Caleb Mozzocco |
06-23-2005 |
Fiction
Oil Apocalypsenew
Two books on the crisis in oil production aren't what you'd call light summer reading. Still, the warning they carry is at least as important as any reminder about sunscreen.
Sacramento News & Review |
Kel Munger |
06-22-2005 |
Nonfiction
Some Bad Shit, Hip-Hop Litnew
Hip-hop historians Bakari Kitwana and Brian Coleman keep it real on the page.
Dig Boston |
Chris Farone |
06-22-2005 |
Nonfiction
