The PopMatters Books Blog 2009-07-04T15:25:26Z Copyright (c) 2009, PopMatters.com ExpressionEngine tag:popmatters.com-reprint,2009:07:03 tag:popmatters.com,2009:pm/blogs/reprint/33.102285 2009-06-29T19:00:31Z 2009-06-29T19:00:31Z Diepiriye Kuku Things Fall Apart reduce men to husbands, and women to wives. Even progressive movements like the struggles converging on marriage... ]]> tag:popmatters.com,2009:pm/blogs/reprint/33.107278 2009-06-25T16:30:19Z 2009-06-25T16:30:19Z Mike Edison The unsinkable Mike Edison — former High Times Publisher, Screw editor, Hustler correspondent, and professional wrestler of no small repute — is hitting the road to promote... ]]> tag:popmatters.com,2009:pm/blogs/reprint/33.107237 2009-06-24T23:01:08Z 2009-06-24T23:01:08Z Lara Killian tag:popmatters.com,2009:pm/blogs/reprint/33.102204 2009-06-19T13:45:22Z 2009-06-19T13:45:22Z Lara Killian tag:popmatters.com,2009:pm/blogs/reprint/33.96106 2009-06-19T00:29:41Z 2009-06-19T00:29:41Z Rachel Balik tag:popmatters.com,2009:pm/blogs/reprint/33.94820 2009-06-11T11:34:13Z 2009-06-11T11:34:13Z Nikki Tranter Starlog has reprinted a fascinating interview with late fantasy author David Eddings in its latest online edition. Eddings discusses his influences, his Cherokee background, and the fact that... ]]> tag:popmatters.com,2009:pm/blogs/reprint/33.94778 2009-06-09T18:00:38Z 2009-06-09T18:00:38Z Mike Edison The unsinkable Mike Edison — former High Times Publisher, Screw editor, Hustler correspondent, and professional wrestler of no small repute — is hitting the road to promote... ]]> tag:popmatters.com,2009:pm/blogs/reprint/33.94736 2009-06-08T22:44:20Z 2009-06-08T22:44:20Z Lara Killian The Book of Negroes (2007). That’s the title you’ll find it under in Canada, at least. In the US the book was... ]]> tag:popmatters.com,2009:pm/blogs/reprint/33.94337 2009-06-01T22:06:36Z 2009-06-01T22:06:36Z Lara Killian tag:popmatters.com,2009:pm/blogs/reprint/33.94118 2009-05-29T10:00:17Z 2009-05-29T10:00:17Z Chris Barsanti There's always another sucker. It's a truth that was just as real back in the Great Depression as it is today in the post-Bernie Madoff present. Frank Partnoy's The Match King -- which should... ]]> tag:popmatters.com,2009:pm/blogs/reprint/33.94096 2009-05-28T15:32:51Z 2009-05-28T15:32:51Z Mike Edison The unsinkable Mike Edison — former High Times Publisher, Screw editor, Hustler correspondent, and professional wrestler of no small repute — is hitting the road to promote... ]]> tag:popmatters.com,2009:pm/blogs/reprint/33.93821 2009-05-25T01:11:51Z 2009-05-25T01:11:51Z Lara Killian Booklist, and just couldn’t resist sharing. Keir Graff writes a fictional account of an apocalypse –... ]]> tag:popmatters.com,2009:pm/blogs/reprint/33.93751 2009-05-22T10:11:58Z 2009-05-22T10:11:58Z Nikki Tranter tag:popmatters.com,2009:pm/blogs/reprint/33.73788 2009-05-22T02:08:12Z 2009-05-22T02:08:12Z Justin M. Norton A Preferred Blur. I have been a dedicated Rollins reader since he began publishing in earnest in the early... ]]> tag:popmatters.com,2009:pm/blogs/reprint/33.93651 2009-05-20T13:26:29Z 2009-05-20T13:26:29Z Mike Edison The unsinkable Mike Edison — former High Times Publisher, Screw editor, Hustler correspondent, and professional wrestler of no small repute — is hitting the road to promote... ]]> tag:popmatters.com,2009:pm/blogs/reprint/33.93451 2009-05-18T13:13:34Z 2009-05-18T13:13:34Z Lara Killian tag:popmatters.com,2009:pm/blogs/reprint/33.93024 2009-05-11T01:46:46Z 2009-05-11T01:46:46Z Lara Killian tag:popmatters.com,2009:pm/blogs/reprint/33.92587 2009-05-04T01:29:56Z 2009-05-04T01:29:56Z Lara Killian tag:popmatters.com,2009:pm/blogs/reprint/33.73711 2009-04-28T14:00:04Z 2009-04-28T14:00:04Z Deanne Sole Accidental Tourist wants to protect himself from the friendliness of other passengers on aeroplanes, he takes out a novel. The name of his book was Miss... ]]> tag:popmatters.com,2009:pm/blogs/reprint/33.73710 2009-04-27T11:03:17Z 2009-04-27T11:03:17Z Lara Killian Hairstyles of the Damned puts together one of my favorite color combinations: hot pink and jungle green. This read was a serendipitous... ]]> tag:popmatters.com,2009:pm/blogs/reprint/33.72944 2009-04-24T14:02:52Z 2009-04-24T14:02:52Z Kirby Fields tag:popmatters.com,2009:pm/blogs/reprint/33.73440 2009-04-22T12:35:19Z 2009-04-22T12:35:19Z Sean Murphy On April 21, 1910, author Samuel Langhorne Clemens, better known as Mark Twain, died in Redding, Connecticut Mark Twain was the heavyweight champion in a time when giants roamed the earth and... ]]> tag:popmatters.com,2009:pm/blogs/reprint/33.72945 2009-04-17T07:34:52Z 2009-04-17T07:34:52Z Rachel Balik tag:popmatters.com,2009:pm/blogs/reprint/33.73102 2009-04-15T14:15:01Z 2009-04-15T14:15:01Z Chris Barsanti This quick-take introduction to the beatnik generation is about three-fourths excellent short-take biography and one-quarter well-meaning addendums of varying quality. ]]> tag:popmatters.com,2009:pm/blogs/reprint/33.72969 2009-04-13T13:47:56Z 2009-04-13T13:47:56Z Lara Killian Three Cups of Tea (2009). The original, ‘adult’ version of the book still tops the NYT... ]]> tag:popmatters.com,2009:pm/blogs/reprint/33.72757 2009-04-06T19:09:14Z 2009-04-06T19:09:14Z Lara Killian tag:popmatters.com,2009:pm/blogs/reprint/33.72434 2009-03-29T20:03:08Z 2009-03-29T20:03:08Z Lara Killian tag:popmatters.com,2009:pm/blogs/reprint/33.72273 2009-03-26T00:36:44Z 2009-03-26T00:36:44Z Nikki Tranter Where the Wild Things Are was anything more than a little... ]]> tag:popmatters.com,2009:pm/blogs/reprint/33.71920 2009-03-19T10:40:00Z 2009-03-19T10:40:00Z David Pullar tag:popmatters.com,2009:pm/blogs/reprint/33.71853 2009-03-18T12:45:08Z 2009-03-18T12:45:08Z Lara Killian The House of the Scorpion. Winner of the National Book Award for Young People’s Literature, and an honorable mention in several other... ]]> tag:popmatters.com,2009:pm/blogs/reprint/33.71819 2009-03-18T00:22:09Z 2009-03-18T00:22:09Z Nikki Tranter Los Angeles Times: Millard Kaufman published his first novel, "Bowl of Cherries," at age 90. In his ninth decade, he had the presence of mind, the diligence and the creativity to... ]]> tag:popmatters.com,2009:pm/blogs/reprint/33.71397 2009-03-09T21:49:24Z 2009-03-09T21:49:24Z Lara Killian New York Times has introduced a new weekly best seller list category: graphic novels. To be more precise, last week the NYT debuted three different graphic books lists,... ]]> tag:popmatters.com,2009:pm/blogs/reprint/33.71199 2009-03-06T21:40:11Z 2009-03-06T21:40:11Z Deanne Sole Minor Poets of the 18th Century. The old Everymans make a beautiful set of books: small,... ]]> tag:popmatters.com,2009:pm/blogs/reprint/33.71268 2009-03-05T10:20:00Z 2009-03-05T10:20:00Z David Pullar tag:popmatters.com,2009:pm/blogs/reprint/33.71157 2009-03-04T12:00:00Z 2009-03-04T12:00:00Z Sean Murphy Cheever's stories are not autobiographical so much as stark documents from the same era he lived, wrote and drank in. ]]> tag:popmatters.com,2009:pm/blogs/reprint/33.71121 2009-03-03T00:30:16Z 2009-03-03T00:30:16Z Lara Killian tag:popmatters.com,2009:pm/blogs/reprint/33.70920 2009-02-25T11:20:00Z 2009-02-25T11:20:00Z Sean Murphy tag:popmatters.com,2009:pm/blogs/reprint/33.70838 2009-02-23T11:41:19Z 2009-02-23T11:41:19Z Lara Killian tag:popmatters.com,2009:pm/blogs/reprint/33.70717 2009-02-19T13:00:00Z 2009-02-19T13:00:00Z David Pullar tag:popmatters.com,2009:pm/blogs/reprint/33.70595 2009-02-17T00:05:53Z 2009-02-17T00:05:53Z Lara Killian Airborn, the winner of Canada's well-respected Governor General's Award for Children's Literature in 2004 -- or "The GGs" for short. Recommended to... ]]> tag:popmatters.com,2009:pm/blogs/reprint/33.70275 2009-02-10T00:49:38Z 2009-02-10T00:49:38Z Lara Killian tag:popmatters.com,2009:pm/blogs/reprint/33.70046 2009-02-05T10:30:04Z 2009-02-05T10:30:04Z David Pullar tag:popmatters.com,2009:pm/blogs/reprint/33.69970 2009-02-04T04:45:40Z 2009-02-04T04:45:40Z Lara Killian tag:popmatters.com,2009:pm/blogs/reprint/33.69908 2009-02-02T21:39:36Z 2009-02-02T21:39:36Z Sean Murphy New York Times, this week, on the complicated legacy of Roberto Bolano. Few writers are more acclaimed right now than the Chilean novelist Roberto Bolaño, who died of an... ]]> tag:popmatters.com,2009:pm/blogs/reprint/33.69162 2009-01-28T11:52:00Z 2009-01-28T11:52:00Z Nikki Tranter Baltimore Sun, following on from her father, respected... ]]> tag:popmatters.com,2009:pm/blogs/reprint/33.69596 2009-01-26T22:33:21Z 2009-01-26T22:33:21Z Lara Killian tag:popmatters.com,2009:pm/blogs/reprint/33.69161 2009-01-22T11:00:00Z 2009-01-22T11:00:00Z Nikki Tranter tag:popmatters.com,2009:pm/blogs/reprint/33.69334 2009-01-21T11:00:00Z 2009-01-21T11:00:00Z David Pullar A Fraction of the Whole. When I first came across it, I had no particular... ]]> tag:popmatters.com,2009:pm/blogs/reprint/33.69159 2009-01-20T01:30:33Z 2009-01-20T01:30:33Z Nikki Tranter Boston Globe entitled, "On Crime", and spends much of her time traveling the country teaching... ]]> tag:popmatters.com,2009:pm/blogs/reprint/33.69163 2009-01-18T10:04:24Z 2009-01-18T10:04:24Z Nikki Tranter Re:Print, we... ]]> tag:popmatters.com,2009:pm/blogs/reprint/33.68989 2009-01-12T21:05:33Z 2009-01-12T21:05:33Z Lara Killian are you reading? Last week I started a youth services course and as an opening... ]]> tag:popmatters.com,2009:pm/blogs/reprint/33.68782 2009-01-08T11:07:28Z 2009-01-08T11:07:28Z David Pullar tag:popmatters.com,2009:pm/blogs/reprint/33.68722 2009-01-07T13:12:16Z 2009-01-07T13:12:16Z Nikki Tranter tag:popmatters.com,2009:pm/blogs/reprint/33.67722 2009-01-05T22:05:56Z 2009-01-05T22:05:56Z Lara Killian tag:popmatters.com,2009:pm/blogs/reprint/33.67318 2009-01-02T14:48:52Z 2009-01-02T14:48:52Z Nikki Tranter tag:popmatters.com,2008:pm/blogs/reprint/33.67210 2008-12-24T06:20:00Z 2008-12-24T06:20:00Z David Pullar tag:popmatters.com,2008:pm/blogs/reprint/33.67205 2008-12-23T00:35:36Z 2008-12-23T00:35:36Z Lara Killian tag:popmatters.com,2008:pm/blogs/reprint/33.66962 2008-12-15T16:43:44Z 2008-12-15T16:43:44Z Lara Killian tag:popmatters.com,2008:pm/blogs/reprint/33.66787 2008-12-11T10:23:48Z 2008-12-11T10:23:48Z David Pullar The Man Who... ]]>