Words
05.11.08 | by Richard C. Crepeau
The Heroes Have Gone: Personal Essays on Sport, Popular Culture and the American West
by Jim W. Corder
Edited and with an afterword by James S. Baumlin and Keith D. Miller
Moon City Press (February, 2008)
185 pp. $15
Those who heard the voice of the late Jim Corder, professor of English at Texas Christian University, will hear it [...]
10.18.07 | by Richard C. Crepeau
Poetry is not generally thought of as a vehicle for posing the eternal question, "Ginger or Maryann?" or to contemplate the centrality of "Hawaii Five-O" within the cultural milieu of our postmodern existence. For David McGimpsey, however, these are just the sort of subjects that are most suitable.
11.27.02 | by Paul McLeary
After the success of The Corrections, Jonathan Franzen probably could have published a cookbook and it would have been guaranteed an audience. Fortunately, he had previously published essays to draw from instead
11.01.02 | by David McGrath
With his short story in The Atlantic, Updike assumes the comforting role of a parent tending to a child shaken by a nightmare: While neither the evil nor its memory goes away, the narrative restores reality and lets us sleep through the night
09.05.02 | by Mark Engler
What is the connection between political radicalism and sideshow arts? Two recent books, Sideshow, U.S.A. and Jay's Journal of Anomalies, help to provide answers about the genre's appeal and its politics
08.22.02 | by Adam Baer
Seinfeld was and remains clean enough, generic enough, to work the nation from the stages of network television and still seem to people outside the Tri-State area like that wise-ass Jew from New York they once met
08.20.02 | by Sacha Zimmerman
Slander: Liberal Lies about the American Right decries the policy-wonk, cable TV, name-calling inanity that is so in vogue these days. Too bad it offers more of the same
04.29.02 | by Kevin Canfield
Paul A. Cantor's consistently smart but often tedious new book, Gilligan Unbound: Pop Culture in the Age of Globalization, opens by quoting John F. Kennedy, but a few words from Alfonse Stompanato would've been more appropriate
04.24.02 | by Mark Engler
Many of the essays included within Joan Didion's Political Fictions are marked by the manner in which the author takes up strikingly commonplace contentions and advances them with brute force
11.28.01 | by Jeffrey R. Young
The first printed book about the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11 includes only one photograph, but it makes a statement about the power of words
11.21.01 | by Paul McLeary
At the core of Shop Talk is the belief that writing can, in a very real way, be a life-and-death struggle to interpret and order the world
08.06.01 | by Jun Kim
In The Cold Six Thousand, James Ellroy's latest novel, history is a tabloid magazine populated by fiendishly corrupt men who abuse their power as a means of indulging their darkest obsessions
08.06.01 | by Taylor Antrim
Denis Johnson heads to civilization's farthest reaches in his new collection of essays
07.18.01 | by Daniel Kraker
In his simultaneously frightening and enlightening polemic, ''Fast Food Nation,'' Eric Schlosser reveals the devastating impact the fast food industry has had on almost every corner of American life
07.05.01 | by Joe Warminsky
Two new rock 'n' roll books -- chronicling the rise of Bob Dylan and Motley Crue -- discuss the often haphazard constructions of fame
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