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Earth Daze: Prose for the Planetnew
Naked offers a hopeful antidote to boring travel writing: a wide assortment of nonfiction, memoirs, short stories, essays and excerpted correspondence in which the environment is not just a setting but a character with dialogue.
L.A. Weekly |
Joshuah Bearman |
08-11-2004 |
Nonfiction
Winners of Pittsburgh City Paper 2003 Fiction Contest Featurednew
In the story that placed first, Scott Bradley Smith's "Caught," a young man sees his parents differently after his girlfriend goes out on his father's trap runs with him. Also featured are the second-place winner, "Welcome to TV Land" by Douglas Raynor, and the third-place winner, "The Keys to My Writer's Block" by John Barry.
Pittsburgh City Paper |
Scott Bradley Smith |
08-07-2004 |
Original Work
Excerpt from Novel "Ride" Describes Young Man Learning to Take Busnew
He could have been the first black chief justice of the Supreme Court, Superintendent of the Pittsburgh Public School System, The Reverend Doctor Elliott Madison Meade. It was probably with something like this in mind that his mother had named him, and the disappointment of any possible chance of that, the likely reason behind her reportedly vehement rejection of him now.
Pittsburgh City Paper |
David Walton |
08-07-2004 |
Excerpts
Journalist Recalls Months She Taught Dance in Cubanew
In "Dancing with Cuba," noted Latin American journalist Alma Guillermoprieto gives us the rhetoric-free story of her formative experiences in revolutionary Cuba.
Sacramento News & Review |
Melinda Welsh |
08-07-2004 |
Nonfiction
Both History and Song Captured in Transcendent Debut Novelnew
Set in the Appalachians of North Carolina during the time immediately before and after the Civil War, Adams' novel is filled with the songs of early Scotch-Irish settlers -- so filled that it's almost as if the book itself were a mountain ballad shaped into a more staid fictional form.
Nashville Scene |
Lacey Galbraith |
08-07-2004 |
Fiction
Songwriter Applies His Breathtaking Prose to Fiction
This deftly written novel, part of a series of books by musicians, is an account of a confused, Smiths-loving teenager.
Monday Magazine |
Bill Stuart |
08-07-2004 |
Fiction
Flowers Discusses Myth behind His Newest Novelnew
Tentatively titled "Rest for the Weary," Arthur Flowers' new novel is based on the High John the Conqueror myth, first brought to literature by African-American novelist and anthropologist Zora Neale Hurston.
Syracuse New Times |
Martin Walls |
08-07-2004 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
Village Voice Writer Chronicles Woman's Life after Prisonnew
Released after 16 years in prison, Elaine Bartlett finds that the family she longed to rejoin has many troubles. Gonnerman describes the ex-convict's plight in writing that is plain and sometimes a bit dull, but this book has some remarkable sections and memorable moments.
Baltimore City Paper |
Scott Carlson |
08-07-2004 |
Nonfiction
Canadian Writer Revitalizes the Westernnew
This artfully written novel follows the Gaunt family from Victorian England to Montana and beyond into Canada's Northwest Territories.
Creative Loafing (Charlotte) |
Erik Spanberg |
08-07-2004 |
Fiction
Novel about Dancer Explores Russian and Gay Culturesnew
Colum McCann's 2003 historical novel describes dancer Rudolph Nureyev as an "international mongrel," someone who travels the world and is comfortable everywhere and nowhere at the same time.
INDY Week |
Byron Woods |
08-07-2004 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
Guide Aimed at Cynical Hip Parents Who Still Want to Have Fun
Hip mamas, slacker mamas, rejoice -- it's a tongue-in-cheek parenting book written just for you.
Monday Magazine |
Alisa Gordaneer |
08-07-2004 |
Nonfiction
Compendium Lists Sexy Queer Terms and Their Origins
A.D. Peterkin delves into language that would make Roget blush in public . . . but would also make his “membrum virile” stand at attention in private.
Monday Magazine |
Bill Stuart |
08-07-2004 |
Nonfiction
Picture Book Reveals How the Hairbrush Turns
One flip-through of this cheesy coffee-table book will leave you speechless, because the smiling people in these photographs actually allowed these hairstyles to happen to them.
Monday Magazine |
Adrienne Mercer |
08-07-2004 |
Nonfiction
Almond Takes His Candy Memories on the Roadnew
Steve Almond knows a thing or two about obsession. Fortunately for us, he writes about it so well that we’re invited to join him, and, like any slippery slope, we’re soon riding shotgun beside him on the premium chocolate highway.
Sacramento News & Review |
Kel Munger |
08-07-2004 |
Nonfiction
Serious Beach Books Could Ruin Your Tilapia Dinnernew
Marine researcher Richard Ellis inks out humanity's remarkably efficient depletion of marine life, be it plant, fish, or mammal. Ellis's book on the ocean is reviewed along with Russ Rymer's "American Beach," James Jones' "From Here to Eternity," Lisa Stocker's "P-Town Summer" and Charles Sprawson's "Haunts of the Black Masseur."
Baltimore City Paper |
Lee Gardner |
08-07-2004 |
Fiction
