Dan Fante: Fante: A Family’s Legacy of Writing, Drinking and Surviving
Reviewed by Declan Tan Opening with the familiar visions of snow from the likes of Wait Until Spring, Bandini and Dago Red (‘Bricklayer in the Snow’), Dan Fante kicks off, like Svevo and Arturo of his...
View ArticleCandice Millard: Destiny of the Republic: A Tale of Madness, Medicine and the...
Reviewed by Greg Houle Long relegated to history’s vast nether regions of obscurity, the twentieth president of the United States, James A. Garfield is best known for two things: he was the last of the...
View ArticleKevin Avery: Everything Is An Afterthought: The Life And Writings Of Paul Nelson
Reviewed by Robert O’Connor Frank Zappa once said “most rock journalism is people who can’t write, interviewing people who can’t talk, for people who can’t read.” However true that might be, Paul...
View ArticleJonathan Walker and Dan Hallett: Five Wounds: An Illuminated Novel
Reviewed by Declan Tan Not every book looks and feels like an artefact when you pick it up. Oftentimes it is just words printed across cheap paper, the literal form of it separated from its content,...
View ArticleFuture Media: edited by Rick Wilber
Reviewed by Jacob Knowles-Smith Norman Mailer hated television. He distrusted email. He even hated plastic. Marshall McLuhan was probably right, to some extent, to suggest that Mailer had a Victorian...
View ArticleRoger Ebert: Life Itself: A Memoir
"...what makes the memoir so much fun is that it seems like Ebert is just as astounded by it as any chronicler of it would be..." The post Roger Ebert: Life Itself: A Memoir appeared first on Spike...
View ArticleJames Sallis: Drive
"...this is genre-fiction elevated somewhat by a writer who is clearly familiar with the genre that he is subverting..." The post James Sallis: Drive appeared first on Spike Magazine.
View ArticleJudy Collins: Sweet Judy Blue Eyes
"...Judy Collins has had an extraordinary life, with many tragic turns...And she’s detailed them, along with many of the better times, in her new memoir..." The post Judy Collins: Sweet Judy Blue Eyes...
View ArticlePK: BibliOdyssey: Amazing Archival Images from the Internet
"...BibliOdyssey started its journey as a cabinet of curiosities of visual Materia Obscura, collected and curated from the depths of public internet archives..." The post PK: BibliOdyssey: Amazing...
View ArticleJohn Warner: The Funny Man
"...a mulchy broth of satire, cultural commentary and La-Z-Boy philosophy that simmers away on lukewarm, only ever threatening to come to the boil..." The post John Warner: The Funny Man appeared first...
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