Joyland
JOYLAND. Stephen King. Hard Case Crime/Titan Books. When Stephen King writes to his considerable strengths as an author, he stands well above the level of any other scribblers using the … Continue reading
Assimilate: A Critical History of Industrial Music
ASSIMILATE. A CRITICAL HISTORY OF INDUSTRIAL MUSIC. S. Alexander Reed. Oxford University Press. Assimilate serves as the first analysis of industrial music as a genre, delineating the history of this often … Continue reading
City Lights Turns 60!
City Lights, located at the corner of Columbus Avenue and Broadway in San Francisco’s famed North Beach district, is a seminal bookstore. Founded in 1953 via a partnership between poet … Continue reading
Travels With Epicurus
TRAVELS WITH EPICURUS. Daniel Klein. Penguin Books Epicurus has always been one of my favorite philosophers. Back when I was 12 years old, approaching Confirmation, and struggling with the mounting … Continue reading
“Moon In the Abstract”
On Gandolfini As “Soprano” I. They’ve come To tailor The scenes To the way The man moves Through sacred boundaries Of time (silk) Across the heaviness Of ancient Old atmosphere … Continue reading
Announcing the 2005 Bard Fiction Prize
New Releases from Palgrave New Releases from Wiley & Sons MURDER OF A MEDICI PRINCESS. Caroline Murphy. Oxford University Press. In Murder of a Medici Princess, Caroline Murphy describes the spirited but all-too-brief … Continue reading
The Walking-Away World
Editor’s Pick: Lust For Justice: The Radical Life & Law of J. Tony Serra THE GREAT BIG BEAUTIFUL TOMORROW. Cory Doctorow. PM Press. As part of their “Outspoken Authors” series, … Continue reading
Transgressions & Internal Bleeding
TRANSGRESSIONS. Edited by Ed McBain. Forge Books. In Transgressions, a collection of ten novellas written by some of today’s most acclaimed suspense novelists (and edited by noted mystery writer Ed McBain, … Continue reading
Fiction & Nonfiction
TELL THE COURT I Love My Wife: Race, Marriage, and Law – An American History. Peter Wallenstein. Palgrave/Macmillan. In Tell The Court, Virginia historian Peter Wallenstein has written a timely and absorbing study … Continue reading
Electric Review 