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Nashville Writer Celebrates Inspiration of Baseballnew
"The Game: One Man, Nine Innings, A Love Affair With Baseball," a meditative book about the life-lessons of baseball, imparts a Zen-like peace similar to that offered by an evening in the ballpark.
Nashville Scene |
Paul V. Griffith |
08-07-2004 |
Nonfiction
The Gall of the Wildnew
This anthology of 30 authors seeks to rescue nature writing from its own soft-focus postcard prose by putting people back in the landscape. The argument is overheated, but the contributions stand on their own merits.
Missoula Independent |
Nicole Panter |
08-06-2004 |
Nonfiction
Comic Heroes Save the Day for Fictionnew
Closely observed and fondly earnest examinations of comics' golden and silver ages shoot through this smart, stylish, not-just-for-geeks collection like a barely contained, rare elixir whose strange effects reveal themselves only over time.
The Georgia Straight |
John Burns |
08-05-2004 |
Nonfiction
The Dismal Downside to the Deficitnew
An interview with Gerald Swanson, the author of the forthcoming America the Broke, examines how today's deficit spending threatens the future economic stability of the United States.
Tucson Weekly |
Jim Nintzel |
08-01-2004 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
Novel of Alaskan Wilderness Stunningly Originalnew
Here is a first novel of such pristine talent and originality, it's unlikely you'll find its match anytime soon.
The Georgia Straight |
John Burns |
07-30-2004 |
Fiction
Russian Mystery Novelist Inherits Agatha Christie's Mantlenew
In homage to the locked-room mysteries of Agatha Christie, Akunin sends Fandorin to sea aboard the luxury passenger liner Leviathan (Southampton to Cairo) in the company of a murderer and thief, but which of his nine fellow passengers detained in the Windsor salon could it be?
The Georgia Straight |
John Burns |
07-30-2004 |
Fiction
Sci-Fi Author/Marine Biologist Nears End of Undersea Trilogynew
ßehemoth: ß-Max is perhaps the oddest piece of science fiction I've ever read.
The Georgia Straight |
John Burns |
07-30-2004 |
Fiction
Less Chuck for your Buck in "Stranger Than Fiction"new
In the parlance of corporate marketing, Chuck Palahniuk the guy—not to be confused with Chuck Palahniuk the oeuvre—has been branded.
Missoula Independent |
Nicole Panter |
07-29-2004 |
Nonfiction
God's Countrynew
Thomas Frank engages the most important political question of our time: why do so many of America’s working poor vote persistently against their own economic interests?
Boston Phoenix |
Catherine Tumber |
07-27-2004 |
Nonfiction
A Tale of Two Y'allsnew
The dictionary of Southern dialect is simple, concise and respectful. It stands in contrast to Maureen Duffin-Ward's Suddenly Southern: A Yankee's Guide to Living in Dixie, a breathtaking collection of every cliché and stereotype ever promulgated about the South and Southerners.
Mountain Xpress |
Cindy Burda |
07-23-2004 |
Nonfiction
Biographer Martin Roach Phones in This White Stripes Book
A grammatical nightmare, Morphing the Blues is not an insightful look into the "mysteries" of the White duo, as it claims to be; it is simply a restatement of everything we already know, as well as a very detailed history of Detroit.
Austin Chronicle |
Darcie Stevens |
07-23-2004 |
Nonfiction
Teenager Finds Kindness in Her Quirky Mennonite Community
For Miriam Toew's narrator, Nomi, life in a small town is a matter of being an insider or an outsider -- and figuring out which she is presents the main challenge in this novel.
Monday Magazine |
Andrew Murray |
07-22-2004 |
Fiction
Paging Elvis and Other Rock 'n' Roll Fantasiesnew
This book on the myths, legends, and curses surrounding rock 'n' roll will entertain anyone who's ever used a turntable to play Led Zeppelin's "Stairway to Heaven" backward.
Illinois Times |
Corrine Frisch |
07-22-2004 |
Nonfiction
Unsinkable Mollynew
Although Molly Ivins’s new book is being cast as a "retrospective," she expects to find plenty more chicken-fried nincompoopery to laugh at in the years to come. A Q&A with Ivins.
Boston Phoenix |
Tamara Wieder |
07-22-2004 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Molly Ivins, Who Let the Dogs in?
Working for Peanutsnew
The Complete Peanuts: 1950-1952 offers readers insight into the rough-and-tumble origins of the classic comic strip.
Gambit |
Alex Rawls |
07-21-2004 |
Nonfiction
