AltWeeklies Wire
Caribbean Homesick Bluesnew
Robert Antoni, whose latest novel is about an Anglo who's run away from both his Trinidadian roots and his wealthy family, chafes at being labeled a literary writer.
Miami New Times |
Brett Sokol |
04-19-2005 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
An Art Movement by Any Other Name...
Matt Dukes Jordan offers a field guide to the world of lowbrow art, and the many objections to that term.
Columbus Alive |
J. Caleb Mozzocco |
04-14-2005 |
Nonfiction
Unconventional First Lady of the Ragtime Era
A leading matriarch of Ohio's political family dynasty gets a new biography that answers such as questions as why our current governor is named "Bob" Taft instead of "Alphonso."
Columbus Alive |
J. Caleb Mozzocco |
04-14-2005 |
Nonfiction
My Blank Pagesnew
The lack of pre-release hype and author sightings on the media radar have made it possible to appreciate the writing in this short-story collection without getting bogged down in the Dave Eggers cult of personality.
Boston Phoenix |
Nina MacLaughlin |
04-14-2005 |
Fiction
Tags: of, a, Dave Eggers, How We Are Hungry, McSweeney's, Know, You, Genius, Heartbreaking, Our, Shall, Staggering, Velocity!, work
Building a Mysterynew
Who is Eric Rudolph and how did he elude capture for so long? Where did he hide? Who helped him? Despite all the biographic and forensic details Schuster and Stone weave together, the fact remains that only Rudolph knows his full story.
Mountain Xpress |
Jon Elliston |
04-13-2005 |
Nonfiction
Blows Against the Empirenew
A former Playboy model and card shark plays on our collective lust for all things confessional in her new book, which dishes premium dirt on Hugh Hefner's messianic goatishness.
City Pages (Twin Cities) |
Diablo Cody |
04-13-2005 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
Fairy Dust: Jeanette Winterson Floats Awaynew
British novelist Jeannette Winterson's eighth novel marks a return to the trademark intimacy of her acclaimed earlier work. It’s cyclical, circular and surreal, and the Biblical lilt of it is counterbalanced by glimmering flimsiness.
Boston Phoenix |
Nina MacLaughlin |
04-13-2005 |
Fiction
We've Got A Secret That We're Keeping from Ourselvesnew
William M. Arkin's new book, Code Names, is a true nuts-and-bolts expose on the finer points of defense and intelligence secrecy, and perhaps the largest single release of official secrets since Daniel Ellsberg leaked the Pentagon Papers in 1971.
INDY Week |
Jon Elliston |
04-08-2005 |
Nonfiction
Song of Sting's Selfnew
Sting, as a musician, began his public life sucking, quite literally suffered through a brief interlude in which he didn't suck, and as soon as opportunity arose returned to sucking. So it's pleasant to be able to report that his first literary outing doesn't, mostly, suck.
Missoula Independent |
Brad Tyer |
04-07-2005 |
Nonfiction
Tags: Sting, Broken Music
No Walk in the Parknew
Exploring nature -- human and wild -- with former ranger Jordan Fisher Smith.
Missoula Independent |
Brad Tyer |
04-07-2005 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Jordan Fisher Smith, Nature Noir
The Man From Nowherenew
Author, critic and controversial theorist James Howard Kunstler on the ugliest building in Columbus and our emerging "Parking Lot Nation"
Columbus Alive |
Nikki Davis |
04-07-2005 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
Author Steve Almond Chows Down Againnew
Steve Almond's new collection includes an entire family of yacht-club-credentialed Republicans, convinced they have all been abducted and implanted with "cartridges" by our alien caretakers; an analysis of the meaning of Michael Jackson's dick; and the pleasures of equine and eye socket sex.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Thomas Bell |
04-07-2005 |
Fiction
Art Demon: An interview with Camille Paglianew
Camille Paglia talks (and talks and talks) about her new book of poetry commentary — and academic ‘ass-lickers’ and ‘liberal media elites’ had better respond intelligently for a change.
Boston Phoenix |
Tamara Wieder |
04-07-2005 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
Is God a Republican?new
Two new books attack the GOP monopoly on God. But are there more than two sides to the issue?
Seattle Weekly |
Tim Appelo |
04-06-2005 |
Nonfiction
Tags: Various Titles, Various
After the Shine Went Out of Everythingnew
Burkhardt, an assistant professor of English at the University of Illinois at Springfield, has turned her substantial knowledge of Maxwell's work and her unprecedented access to his papers into the first major critical study of this important author.
Illinois Times |
Corrine Frisch |
04-05-2005 |
Nonfiction
