AltWeeklies Wire
Review of Collapse
“What were Easter Islanders saying as they cut down the last tree on their island?” That’s the question that drives Jared Diamond’s new book, and it’s a relevant one for a world currently doing the same things with the same lack of reflection.
The Inlander |
Ted S. McGregor Jr. |
02-02-2005 |
Nonfiction
Tags: Collapse, Jared Diamond
World Trade Center Replacement Was No Grassroots Effortnew
Philip Nobel's book reveals the degree to which big money interests and Gov. George Pataki manipulated the process of selecting a design project for Ground Zero.
New York Press |
Dan Neel |
01-27-2005 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Port Authority, a star-crossed celebrity architect, Daniel Libeskind, Philip Nobel, Ronald Lauder, Sixteen Acres: Architecture and the Outrageous Struggle for the Future of Ground Zero, World Trade Center: the New York State Commission of Privatization and the New York State Research Council on Privatization investigative journalist Justin Berzon and National Review Online contributing editor Deroy Murdock
New Kid On The Blocnew
Martin Cruz Smith, to his credit, has taken note of the competition, and Wolves Eat Dogs is a lesson in persistence; its steeped cynicism conveys the quality of feeling of a veteran Sovietologist, older and deeper than the disillusion of idealistic young'uns who put in a vodka-drenched post-collegiate year.
City Pages (Twin Cities) |
Jesse Berrett |
01-26-2005 |
Fiction
Tags: Martin Cruz Smith, Wolves Eat Dogs
Apocalypse Soonnew
New books by Jared Diamond and Christopher D. Cook parse out details of the end of the world as we know it.
Baltimore City Paper |
Scott Carlson |
01-26-2005 |
Nonfiction
Balancing Liberty and Securitynew
Although this book is light on discussion about the war on terror and the Patriot Act, the historical lessons learned by previous encounters with First Amendment restrictions can serve as a valuable lesson for those willing to reflect on our history.
Illinois Times |
Stuart Shiffman |
01-25-2005 |
Nonfiction
"DearS" season
Peach-Pit's new alien school girl manga's no where near creative as the artist's or artists' names
Columbus Alive |
J. Caleb Mozzocco |
01-20-2005 |
Fiction
The Amazing Stick Figures of Amazing Rain
Now even cavemen and technophobes can enjoy the incredible stick figure art of popular online artist Sam Brown, thanks to Amazing Rain.
Columbus Alive |
J. Caleb Mozzocco |
01-20-2005 |
Fiction
Masterpiecenew
Despite some psychological overreaching, this new biography of 20th century art giant Willem de Kooning stands as the definitive account of his genius and turbulent life.
Baltimore City Paper |
Bret McCabe |
01-19-2005 |
Nonfiction
Travels With Charleynew
Novelist Peter Carey took his son to Japan and all he got were these lousy insights.
Baltimore City Paper |
Violet Carberry |
01-19-2005 |
Nonfiction
Just Add Bong Water: Punk Rock Recipes
Veteran vegan and punk Niall McGuirk makes the link between the two rebellious lifestyles explicit in a cookbook collecting recipes from rockers.
Columbus Alive |
J.Caleb Mozzocco |
01-18-2005 |
Nonfiction
Author Explains How Conservatives Got So Terribly Oppressednew
According to author and historian Thomas Frank, who spoke at Ohio University Jan. 13, over the last 20 years or so a faction of conservatives, aided by the media, has managed to strip economics out of politics, and replace it with cartoonish "cultural" issues.
The Athens NEWS |
Jim Phillips |
01-18-2005 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
Doyenne of Blending Fiction, History and Visual Artnew
Susan Vreeland is part of a growing movement of authors who have found success using the lives, loves and masterpieces of great artists to fuel their writing.
Baltimore City Paper |
J. Bowers |
01-17-2005 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
My Big Fat Hip Weddingnew
In her memoir of growing up as one of the white minority on the upper West Side of New York, Susan Jane Gilman speaks to heterosexual feminists and second-generation hipsters.
Montreal Mirror |
Juliet Waters |
01-17-2005 |
Nonfiction
Aural Litnew
Book reviewer and author Jonathan Lowe is finding more and more success in the audio-book field.
Tucson Weekly |
James Reel |
01-13-2005 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Fame Island, Jonathan Lowe
Something Happenednew
The hero of John Haskell's debut novel "was in the middle of living happily ever after when something happened." His wife and car disappeared from a roadside gas station, setting him off on a wild-goose chase.
The Village Voice |
Joy Press |
01-13-2005 |
Fiction
