Playwright, editor and hardcore “Jetthead” Kathleen Warnock gives us an in-depth review of Todd Oldham’s new book chronicling the life and times of Joan Jett.
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Dw. Dunphy
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I am a bald, neurotic person with poor social skills and an equally dismal amount of self-esteem. It is only logical that I see so much of myself in the…
Dw. Dunphy
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When last we left Arthur Dent, he had arrived on planet Earth once again, now fully aware not only of Magrathea’s planet-building capacities but of multiple dimensions with multiple Earths….
Ann Logue
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Lee Eisenberg likes to shop. He also has a lot of perspective on how people sell and how people buy. He was the editor in chief of Esquire for many…
Mojo Flucke
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Being a Bowie fan is one thing; being a fan of Bowie books can be an altogether separate fetish. There’s such a wide variety of tomes about the wispy art-rocker…
Scott Malchus
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We live in an age when you donÁ¢€â„¢t have to be a dignitary, famous celebrity or someone who survived tragedy to write your lifeÁ¢€â„¢s story. In the past decade, blogs,…
Jeff Giles
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See, now this is what Fanboys wanted to be. The debut novel (or novella, as somewhat grumpily conceded in the Author’s Note) from AlertNerd‘s Matt Springer, Unconventional is, according to…
Ken Shane
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When it comes to telling the true story of Woodstock, more properly known as “An Aquarian Exposition: The Woodstock Music and Art Fair,” it’s hard to imagine anyone better suited…
Ken Shane
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You won’t hear it from the literary highbrow among us, but Stephen King’s novel The Stand has all of the elements necessary to qualify as a (if not the) Great…
Jeff Giles
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Travis Elborough – The Vinyl Countdown: The Album from LP to iPod and Back Again (2009, Soft Skull) purchase from Amazon Okay, so the title triggers unbidden memories of a…
Jeff Giles
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Robb Walsh – Sex, Death and Oysters: A Half-Shell Lover’s World Tour (2009, Counterpoint) purchase this book (Amazon) To say that I’m not a foodie would be an act of…
Jeff Giles
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John Carroll – The Existential Jesus (2009, Counterpoint) purchase this book (Amazon) You can’t claim to offer an interpretation of the Gospel of Mark that claims to offer up hitherto…
Jon Cummings
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My World History teacher in high school, Mrs. Rivers, was less than efficient in her use of verbiage. While lecturing about the Peloponnesian Wars or the Roman aqueducts, she would…
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