Tag Archives: books

This is the story of a gang of hackers in the pre-dawn of the Internet.

I recall the gut-punch impact Studs Terkel’s book Working had on me when I read it as a teenager: I had never realized so many people actually worked in “menial” jobs, nor that there is dignity and self-respect in dong ANY job well. It meshed neatly with my understanding of …

In the age of George W. Bush and Al Qaeda, it’s easy to lose sight of what is ultimately the most important conflict of all: the battle to save the environment.

I picture an “erotic writing workshop” as a combination of high school sex ed and a visit to the hot tub with the orotund and libidinous literature professors played by Will Ferrell and Rachel Dratch on Saturday Night Live – ridiculously arch and lubricious at the same time. But what …

Art comics guru Art Spiegelman's flawed but fascinating take on 9-11. . .

Mark Evanier's latest ace collection of comics and pop culture essays. . .

Volume One in Courtney Love's new manga graphic novel series. . .

Though his New Yorkers live somewhat dreamy lives, Rinaldi’s New York is not a modern-day version of Mark Helprin’s from A Winter’s Tale (though Echo Terrace’s rooftop Independence Day party bears a distant relation to Helprin’s images of TB victims lying on rooftops all over Manhattan). It’s not even Woody Allen’s. It’s the real thing.

A graphic novel look at life as a free-lance supervillain henchman. . .

Rock star, blogger, philosopher, songwriter, Blogcritics: Dr. Frank is now a novelist: Dr. Frank, the songwriter behind one of punk’s most influential bands, has just announced that his novel, “King Dork” will be published by Delacorte, a young adult division of Random House. Dr. Frank’s band, The Mr .T Experience, …