AltWeeklies Wire
Marti and Morenew
Francisco Goldman’s fictional re-creation of 19th-century Central America is more telling in its details than in its larger picture.
Boston Phoenix |
Richard C. Walls |
10-19-2004 |
Fiction
Local Colornew
Barbara Sutton finds an undeniable comedy in our darkest sorrows.
Boston Phoenix |
Nina MacLaughlin |
10-19-2004 |
Fiction
World Travelernew
Susan Orlean knows that stories lurk everywhere, in day-to-day drear as well as on mountaintops on the other side of the planet.
Boston Phoenix |
Amy Finch |
10-19-2004 |
Nonfiction
Political Fictionsnew
Novelist Stephen Elliott tried every method possible to translate the double-talking, bootlicking, unctuous world of the campaign trail into something everyone can understand.
Boston Phoenix |
Camlle Dodero |
10-14-2004 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
To Wack and Backnew
On a round-the-world tour, a hip-hop scholar finds America's best-selling music in Tokyo, Rio, New York, Johannesburg and Cape Town.
Missoula Independent |
John Freeman |
10-14-2004 |
Nonfiction
Journalist Has Become One of the Masters of True Crime Reportingnew
Sager employs what he refers to as "the precarious practice of New Journalism": unapologetically subjective and relying on many of the techniques of fiction writers to reconstruct events and get inside his subjects' heads.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Thomas Bell |
10-14-2004 |
Nonfiction
Reclaiming the Red Statesnew
Garrison Keillor argues that old-school civics holds the future of the Democratic Party.
Seattle Weekly |
Gavin Borchert |
10-13-2004 |
Nonfiction
Learning to Love Pat Buchanannew
The enemy of my enemy is my friend. To a point.
Seattle Weekly |
Knute Berger |
10-13-2004 |
Nonfiction
Before the Bombsnew
A war correspondent correctly predicts the fallout to our "success" in Iraq.
Seattle Weekly |
Brian Miller |
10-13-2004 |
Nonfiction
Don't Smile for the Cameranew
War and politics have taken a grim toll in John Kerry's Camelot. Are we really ready for the Brooder in Chief?
Seattle Weekly |
Brian Miller |
10-13-2004 |
Nonfiction
Easy Writernew
The New York Times' Maureen Dowd makes it so easy to dis Dubya.
Seattle Weekly |
Brian Miller |
10-13-2004 |
Nonfiction
Requiem for a Murdered Poetnew
Hall Pass was Lorrie Tennant's last poem. She read it aloud at an open mic event at Ginger Bay Cafe in Hollywood, Fla. Later that night she said good-bye to her friends and returned to her home, where her murderer awaited her.
New Times Broward-Palm Beach |
Jeff Stratton |
10-13-2004 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
Dissent From Within the Empire: Talking With Michael Parentinew
Michael Parenti's best books are meticulously detailed, philosophical meditations on the worst excesses of foreign policy. The historian and media critic, whose latest book is Superpatriotism, speaks about the imperialist nature of the conflict in Iraq and the role oil plays in it.
The Source Weekly |
Lacey Phillabaum |
10-12-2004 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Michael Parenti, Superpatriotism
Pressing Issuesnew
"That guy who cut his arm off" in a Utah slot canyon opens up.
Missoula Independent |
Nicole Panter |
10-11-2004 |
Nonfiction
Exhuming Brautigannew
Montana poet Greg Keeler remembers riding shotgun with the cult author Richard Brautigan.
Missoula Independent |
Scott Preston |
10-11-2004 |
Nonfiction
