AltWeeklies Wire
Reviewing a Life with Spiritnew
Zanger is a noted basket weaver who has published instructional books and over fifty patterns for weaving.
Metro Spirit |
Jason E Sumerau |
03-12-2008 |
Fiction
Dan Kennedy Nails the Music Industrynew
The former mid-level marketing executive's bitter and very funny account of his experience at a fast-dying music label zeros in on everything that's wrong with the old music biz.
NOW Magazine |
Susan G. Cole |
03-10-2008 |
Fiction
Southern Discomfortnew
Phillips' atmospheric first novel is full of love and depth, as are her characters.
Eugene Weekly |
Molly Templeton |
03-06-2008 |
Fiction
For the Love of Moneynew
Lydia Millet's sixth novel, How the Dead Dream, opens with an unforgettable image: A young boy named T. is so entranced by money that he purses coins in his mouth, as if to absorb the currency's mysterious power.
The Portland Mercury |
Chas Bowie |
03-06-2008 |
Fiction
Yousef Al-Mohaimeed's Storytelling Transcends Bansnew
Wolves of the Crescent Moon was banned in Saudi Arabia by theocratic thought-cops for casting too many spotlights on societal problems that the authorities insist don't exist. Upon being labeled dangerous and sinful, the book gained a large audience throughout the Arabic-speaking world, and has since been translated into French and English.
San Francisco Bay Guardian |
Todd Lavoie |
03-05-2008 |
Fiction
Fuck, American-Stylenew
You can tell a lot about a society by its wildest dreams and darkest fantasies. Sex for America's two dozen short stories suggest we are one sick nation.
Philadelphia City Paper |
M.J. Fine |
03-04-2008 |
Fiction
Creepy Not Scarynew
Not quite good enough to be entirely interesting and not quite scary enough to be... well, all that scary, Duma Key is a weird book.
The Portland Mercury |
Erik Henriksen |
02-28-2008 |
Fiction
Roberto Bolano Travels from the Grave to the Futurenew
Nazi Literature presents brief bios and bibliographies for 30 imaginary right-wing writers from North and South America.
San Francisco Bay Guardian |
Stephen Beachy |
02-28-2008 |
Fiction
Gin Phillips Needs to Figure Out What to Say With Her Very Strong Voicenew
For anyone who happens to have read Faulkner's As I Lay Dying, Phillips' debut novel will seem familiar.
Willamette Week |
John Minervini |
02-27-2008 |
Fiction
Crunch Timenew
Name your syndrome in the stories of Neil Smith.
The Memphis Flyer |
Leonard Gill |
02-22-2008 |
Fiction
The Faith of Easy Rawlinsnew
By "people like me," Easy might mean black men in 20th-century America. But, given Easy's dramatic personality change in this story, the proclamation bears rereading.
Shepherd Express |
Eric Beaumont |
02-22-2008 |
Fiction
Love is the Bug in 'My Mistress's Sparrow Is Dead'new
Cold hearts rule in this Jeffrey Eugenides collection.
Montreal Mirror |
Juliet Waters |
02-22-2008 |
Fiction
Peter Carey Examines the Democratic National Convention of 1968new
But Carey's book is less about the events of the period than about its immediate consequences; about what happens when rich kids go revolutionary; about those who create tidal changes, and those who, through naivete or weakness, are swept up in them.
The Portland Mercury |
Alison Hallett |
02-21-2008 |
Fiction
Manil Suri Flys Under the Radarnew
Even halfway through The Age of Shiva, you'd swear that his new novel was homespun, unambitious and sentimental. But keep reading; it grows some serious teeth.
Willamette Week |
John Minervini |
02-20-2008 |
Fiction
Go, Dog, Gonew
Beowulf meets Bram Stoker. Or perhaps Homer writes an epic about a lycanthropically-challenged Corleone family. Either way, Toby Barlow's novel-in-verse about urban werewolves is busting genre every which way, and in the very best way.
Sacramento News & Review |
Kel Munger |
02-14-2008 |
Fiction
