AltWeeklies Wire
This Ain't No Disco: New Wave Album Coversnew
Lacking focus, organization and in some cases clean artwork, this book comes off as a pet project undertaken by a New Wave nerd who badly wants to legitimize her 20-year-old record collection by turning the album covers into objets d'art.
Orlando Weekly |
Jason Ferguson |
07-15-2005 |
Nonfiction
The Devil's Work Is Good Worknew
Imagine working three days a week. Now imagine only working three of those weeks a month for, say, nine months a year. In Tom Hodgekinson's new book How to Be Idle, he says that's the way it should be.
Orlando Weekly |
Jason Ferguson |
07-14-2005 |
Nonfiction
Tags: How to be Idle, Tom Hodgekinson
In It for the Mysterynew
Author Peter Stark kayaked the 750 kilometer Lugenda River -- largely unexplored and populated with crocodiles and hippos -- and recounts his adventure, and the history of the ones before his in his new book.
Missoula Independent |
Azita Osanloo |
07-14-2005 |
Nonfiction
Nikki Giovanni and the Power of the Wordnew
Can we still call Nikki Giovanni an heir to Langston Hughes when the poet, activist, essayist and writer has long since given birth to many of her own literary heirs?
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Thomas Bell |
07-14-2005 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
Colorado Town Revives Despised Satirenew
Putting hurt feelings aside after 70 years, Grand Junction is resurrecting Eclipse, the Dalton Trumbo novel that satirized the town.
Overcoming Writer's Block at the Learning Annexnew
A man who makes his living infiltrating events and writing about them is plumb out of ideas until he signs up for a writing class under the pseudonym Armando Leonardo.
Tags: memoir
Censored in LA
In an interview, political cartoonist Paul Conrad explains why his work won’t be seen by Angelenos.
Random Lengths News |
James Preston Allen |
07-12-2005 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Paul Conrad
Unnatural Historynew
A history buff tracks down stories of a real-life horse whisperer, the world's very first car accident and a public whipping.
Cleveland Scene |
Michael Gallucci |
07-12-2005 |
Nonfiction
Wrong Turnnew
James Lee Burke's latest gets lost at the crossroads
Missoula Independent |
James Lee Burke's latest gets lost at the crossroads |
07-08-2005 |
Fiction
Tags: James Lee Burke, Crusader's Cross
Who's Who in the Secret Society
Name writers contribute anonymously to an anthology that allows them to do more damage.
Columbus Alive |
Melissa Starker |
07-08-2005 |
Fiction
Grumpy Young Supermen
Indie comics' crime maestro plays matchmaker for Marvel's odd couple.
Columbus Alive |
J. Caleb Mozzocco |
07-08-2005 |
Fiction
Passionate Aristocrat: Robert Lowell's Unvarnished Shop Talknew
This is unrevised Lowell, spiky, provocative, with signature strings of adjectives that must have delighted his correspondents.
Boston Phoenix |
William Corbett |
07-08-2005 |
Nonfiction
Sixth Book Concludes the 'B-Boy Blues' Seriesnew
For those of you who have been following the now six-book saga, James Earl Hardy is at last giving these two black same-gender lovers the happy ending they deserve in A House Is Not a Home.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Thomas Bell |
07-07-2005 |
Fiction
Watch Your Mouthnew
An Australian linguist flaunts her foul language as a badge of courage while charging that her academic peers "have allowed themselves to be affected by the taboo to the point that its exploration has been underresearched."
The Village Voice |
Joy Press |
07-05-2005 |
Nonfiction
Wander Womannew
An apprentice to the world at large, Rebecca Solnit has made a life's work out of scavenging for connections. Her latest collection of essays sweeps through myriad varieties of loss, from objects to memories to love.
The Village Voice |
Joy Press |
07-05-2005 |
Nonfiction
