AltWeeklies Wire
Bucky Sinister Explores Self-Help's Sinister Undersidenew
Get Up: A 12-Step Guide for Misfits, Freaks, and Weirdos shows how compelling the self-help format can be.
East Bay Express |
Rachel Swan |
10-22-2008 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
Bucky Sinister Hits Bedrock and Breaks the Self-Help Mold with 'Get Up'new
Move over Dr. Phil and Dr. Drew and every other faux-folksy TV platitude-puss. Mr. Sinister has the kind of wisdom -- and writing skills -- that can only come from experience.
San Francisco Bay Guardian |
G. Martinez Cabrera |
10-01-2008 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
'The Porn Trap' Tells the Stories of a Wide Range of Porn Addictsnew
Here we finally have a book that I believe will prove a great resource for individuals struggling with excessive use of pornography.
C-Ville Weekly |
Annette Owens |
09-10-2008 |
Nonfiction
David Carr Asks Himself the Toughest Questions in 'The Night of The Gun'new
Before it delivers the inevitable jolt of redemption, The Night of The Gun is a maddening book, dangerous in large doses to anyone who has ever romanticized the outlaw appeal of the addict, frequently absurd and offensive to those drunks and dope fiends who have somehow managed to ask for help and get on with their lives.
Las Vegas Weekly |
Steve Friedman |
08-15-2008 |
Nonfiction
Bucking the Programnew
Will addicts ever recover from James Frey's A Million Little Pieces?
Reno News & Review |
Anonymous |
02-02-2006 |
Books
The Poet Goes Straight: Cop's Daughter Slips and Rises Back Upnew
Once a strung-out heroin addict, poet Jackie Sheeler runs a Friday-night open mic for poetry readings at the Cornelius St. Cafe and started poetz.com to help neophyte writers.
New York Press |
C.J. Sullivan |
08-25-2004 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
