Published: 7/7/2010
Types: Arts, Literature, Books
Picturing Hemingway's Michigan Michael R. Federspiel Wayne State University Press (Painted Turtle), $40, 200 pp. This past Fourth of July weekend, thousands of people from Chicago and its surrounding suburbs, such as Oak Park, holidayed at quaint bed-and-breakfast houses, new and rickety resorts,...[MORE]
Published: 6/2/2010
Types: Arts, Literature, Books
The World Has Changed Conversations with Alice Walker Edited with an introduction by Rudolph P. Byrd The New Press, $25.95, 339 pp. Here we have an exceptionally unusual biography, if we can even call it that. A lineage of Alice Walker interviews conducted by a succession of writers from 1973 to...[MORE]
Published: 8/26/2009
Types: Arts, Literature, Books
Though they have similarly rabid fan bases, you would never expect to find the worlds of Jane Austen and George A. Romero forcibly colliding, but collide they do, brilliantly in the ultimate postmodern mashup. Purists will be aghast that some artistic travesty has been committed here, but curious ru...[MORE]
Published: 7/29/2009
Types: Arts, Literature, Books
Joseph P. Kennedy Presents His Hollywood Years by Cari Beauchamp Alfred A. Knopf, $35, 506 pp. For Joseph P. Kennedy, success meant just one thing: More. More money, more power, more press, more sexual conquests, more brilliantly orchestrated yet shady business deals, and more respect and fame...[MORE]
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