Saturday, May 17, 2008
Toriphiles await summer release of musician's comic book
By Daniela Garcia
In Last Last Chance, Fiona Maazel seems afraid this may be her only chance to disseminate her ideas to an audience
By Robyn Detterline
Jennifer 8. Lee’s The Fortune Cookie Chronicles: Adventures in the World of Chinese Food traces chop suey’s treacherous journey to your plate
By Alexa Weibel
How many readings of John Cheever’s Bullet Park does it take to purge WASP envy? The editor of Small Spiral Notebook keeps count. (The uncut version)
By Ling Ma
In Blood Kin, never has the second-wave feminist maxim seemed so true: The personal is political
By Donna Blumenfeld
Terri Cheney talks about coming to terms with manic depression and how it’s affected her life
By Lisa Murphy
Sylvia Sellers-García makes aim at García-Marquez’s magical realism with When the Ground Turns in its Sleep
By Katie Moore
In The View from the Seventh Layer, Kevin Brockmeier pulls off stories of realistic characters in bizarre premises — and makes you believe it
By J. Neil Otte
The novelist talks about This Will Go Down on Your Permanent Record
By Amber Drea
Rachel Cline's My Liar investigates a friendship built on a façade
By Robyn Detterline
By Meg Rosoff (Viking, 224 pages, $23.95)
By Michele Koury
By Cate Kennedy (Black Cat, 224 pages, $13)
By Kate Rockwood
By Mari Akasaka (Soft Skull Press, 160 pages, $13.95)
By Jen Girdish
Elizabeth Crane hits high and low in You Must Be This Happy to Enter
By Kate Rockwood
Mercedes Helnwein’s debut, The Potential Hazards of Hester Day, is a road trip novel that isn’t quite the whimsical detour it tries to be
By Michele Koury
The cynically entertaining Things I’ve Learned From Women Who’ve Dumped Me is nothing like your momma’s Chicken Soup books
By Carlye Wisel
There are risks when writing about Israel and Palestine. In The Pale of Settlement,the risks are even greater when an American Jew tells the story.
By Gili Warsett
Antediluvian Tales offers magical noir portraits of New Orleans before the flood
By Gili Warsett
24 essays on abortion show that when scaled back to an individual context, the politics of the womb melt away
By Sarah M Seltzer
Jason Brown unravels his screwy puritan past in Why the Devil Chose New England for His Work
By Paula Crossfield
In 'Unmarketable,' Anne Elizabeth Moore explains how new strains of guerilla marketing threaten creative industries
By Arianna Stern
Learning to Love You More compiles some of the most interesting participatory pieces from Miranda July and Harrell Fletcher’s website of the same name
By Adam Schragin
Former fine-dining server spills the flageolets, er, beans in Service Included
By Anne Johnson
The comic book artist gets graphic about a French novel that helped her find her way
By Adam Schragin
The author goes searching for inventor Nikola Tesla and finds a story about the endless possibilities of science in The Invention of Everything Else. She also expounds on the New Yorker Hotel, living in small towns, and “you know, the wonders of
By Ling Ma
Dark Meat finds itself busless and penniless on the Great Plains
By Emily Armond
Free Gold! (We Are Free)
By Camella Lobo
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