Books Dishwasher Pete has finally written a memoir. If you're already a fan of his work, you really need read no further. Go to the Reading Frenzy signing at Someday Lounge and buy the book. It's great. You ...   More

Books Sassy was a rare breed of teen magazine. Albeit glossy and often gushy about "cute bands," it broke the mold by speaking candidly about issues verboten in mid-'90s magazine media: drugs, sexuality and ...   More

Books "We are social animals, and everything we do is because of other people, because we love them, or because we don't," writes Miranda July in "Ten True Things," one of the short stories collected in No ...   More

Books The challenge in writing a novel about Argentina's "dirty war," in which a military junta "disappeared" some 30,000 people between 1976 and 1983, lies in maintaining the suspense (or at least a glimme ...   More

Books The story is this: widowed American food writer Maggie McElroy travels to China to settle a legal issue concerning her late husband's estate. While there her editors ask her to write about a rising st ...   More

Books After spending two weeks engrossed in a pair of food memoirs, I have been seized by a frenzied flurry of culinary inspirations. I want to pull my own fresh mozzarella, pickle my own sauerkraut, and ha ...   More

Books From the outset of Michael Chabon's new novel The Yiddish Policemen's Union (HarperCollins, 432 pages, $26.95), the Jews of Sitka, Alaska, are in a millenarian mood. Many expect nothing less than the ...   More

Books Sometimes, when I'm driving real fast on a steep road, I start veering toward the guardrail. Playing chicken with myself. But Chuck Palahniuk has got me thinkin' that I've got it all wrong. I should ...   More

Books Any mid-level touring musician will tell you that life on the road isn't as exciting as one would imagine. There's a lot of homesickness, actual sickness, band bickering and unrelenting boredom to be ...   More

Books America likes real people—people like us. This, as much as anything, is what's being sold on America's Next Top Model, American Idol, and the one-off formula plots of daytime talk shows. At lea ...   More