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Review: More good than bad in Neil Young’s unfiltered memoir
Books Comments Nov 07, 2012 4:24pmIn the annals of rock, Neil Young is the bridge spanning the mystic poetry of Bob Dylan and the existential storytelling of Bruce Springsteen. In a career spanning six decades, Young has seesawed...
Las Vegas slam poet Kari O’Connor found her signature style by chance
Books Comments Nov 02, 2012 3:42pm“Do you want to be a judge? Don’t worry, it’ll be fine. If necessary, I’ll walk you out to your car after the performance.”Those words were Kari O’Connor’s introduction to slam poetry.The year was...
The wit and wisdom of writer Dave Hickey
Books Comments Updated: Nov 07, 2012 3:41pmMaverick art critic Dave Hickey, for years a Las Vegan before moving to New Mexico, returns for a sure-to-be-raucous panel at the Vegas Valley Book Festival. We spoke to the author of the classic...
Live-tweeting Lolita: A classic novel, shared in small, delicious bites
Books Comments Updated: Nov 07, 2012 3:48pmI’m going to live-tweet my first-ever reading of Vladimir Nabakov’s Lolita this week, as an experiment. And maybe an assignment.@Cappattack: just finished [it] today!I already told #1 Lolita fan @...
Book review: Battleborn, by Claire Vaye Watkins
Books Comments Oct 10, 2012 9:06pmReading Battleborn, by Claire Vaye Watkins, is a pleasure for the way her stories coolly observe what one character calls “the love of destruction” in the human heart. We see this hunger for...
Who needs Comic-Con when two more superstar-accessible conventions can delight geeks on the same weekend?
Books Comments Updated: Oct 17, 2012 4:23pmIt’s really quiet at the Hard Rock Hotel. You could walk by the convention hall entrance and not even notice a comic event happening, let alone know the guests paid $500-$700 to be here. No, there’s...
Do cops still have to investigate murders? That’s the brilliant conceit of “The Last Policeman.”
Books Comments Sep 27, 2012 9:05amThe perpetuating and solving of murders has been one of humankind’s greatest entertainments since the beginning of narrative, from the killing of Hermengyld in The Canterbury Tales to the nightly...
Trash Fiction Corner!: Should I buy Lee Child’s latest Jack Reacher novel?
Books Comments Sep 20, 2012 11:32amBook: A Wanted Man, by Lee ChildHero: Jack ReacherBackground me on him: He’s a former Army cop who wanders America, carrying no possessions — completely free. Except that he always stumbles into...
Nick Hornby’s super-friendly, unpretentious, effortlessly charming success
Books Comments Sep 19, 2012 6:04pmNick Hornby’s voice on the page is so companionable — so friendly, unpretentious, funny and effortlessly charming (without calling attention to the charm, which is a real art) — that he wins hands-...
As an essayist, Nicholson Baker is a famous novelist
Books Comments Sep 12, 2012 5:42pmAre collections of essays by famous novelists passé? Who precisely is their audience? The question kept popping up while meandering through Nicholson Baker’s latest roundup of nonfiction pieces, The...
