- Two New Nieves Books
Nieves Books has always been in the habit of publishing two new books at the same time. Why the Swiss company's wares come in pairs, we're not sure, b...
08/26/08 - 0 comments
- "The Baum Plan for Financial Independence" Review
I had never heard of John Kessel until I picked up a collection he edited, Feeling Very Strange: A Slipstream Anthology. Slipstream was first named by...
08/25/08 - 0 comments
- Dear Air Guitarists: Please, Please, for the Love of God, Just Stop
Last Friday, San Francisco played host to the 2008 Cuervo Black US Air Guitar National Finals. We were excited to learn of this recent competition, si...
08/13/08 - 1 comment
- "A Better Angel" by Chris Adrian
The world of Chris Adrian’s fiction is one between Heaven and Hell, where virtue and perversity never exist isolated from the other. Frequently his ...
08/12/08 - 0 comments
- Drop the Gun: David Carr’s Crack-and-Journalism Memoir Isn’t Worth Your Time.
By now you’ve probably heard of David Carr, the thriving journalist-cum-crackhead who later cleaned up his act, got a gig with the New York Times, a...
08/11/08 - 0 comments
- "The Nancy Book" by Joe Brainard
Reappropriating popular icons and everyday characters has been around since "mass" was tacked onto "media," but unfortunately, the bulk of us are only...
08/08/08 - 0 comments
- Peter Sutherland, "Muddy Treads" Book Launch
Regular i-D and Vice contributor, Peter Sutherland, is releasing his new book, Muddy Treads, on August 14 through Seems Books. The New Yorker is re...
08/01/08 - 0 comments
- "The Goddess of War," Lauren Weinstein
What's immediately striking about Lauren Weinstein's The Goddess of War (PictureBox Inc.) is its endless tongue-in-cheek humor. Comics of this proport...
07/30/08 - 0 comments
- Haruki Murakami, "What I Talk About When I Talk About Running"
Reading a Haruki Murakami book is like reading something from a god. The characters, however flawed, always manage to save the day (or at least figure...
07/29/08 - 0 comments
- "Crime"
Director (The Mark of Cain)/editor-at-large (Stop Smiling)/occasional T.V. writer (Deadwood) Alix Lambert is an enigma. Since the beginning of her pro...
07/18/08 - 0 comments

