June 2007 :: Print Reviews
Print Reviews
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Golf Monster
A delightful romp recounting how shock rocker Alice Cooper was able to replace alcohol with golf -- a mostly fictional delightful romp, according to Alice Cooper Band biographer Gail Worley.
American Spy
Shelton Hull is surprised by the candor- and relative lack of gaps and redactions- in this posthumous autobiography of shadowy CIA man and Watergate plumber E. Howard Hunt.
American Visa
What makes Juan de Recacoechea's novel, American Visa the "best-selling novel in Bolivian history?" Brittany Sturges gathered all the evidence to solve the mystery.
Blue Beetle Companion
Who was the Blue Beetle? Matthew Moyer finds that the back story for this overlooked superhero contains more mystery and intrigue than Charles Foster Kane's. Rosebud? Scarab?
Blue Monday
Bob Ham takes a look at this furiously positive and lopsided look at the musical career of a living legend.
Godlike
Carl F Gauze, who may or may not be a card-carrying member of the Blank Generation, follows punk godfather Richard Hell from the seedy world of rock to the perhaps seedier world of the written word.
Super F**kers
Some superheroes are busy saving the world, while others are more intent on desecrating graves to secure drug paraphernalia. Matthew Moyer is kinda leaning towards the latter these days.
Mastering The Melon
Tattoos, grains of rice, multiple rapid-fire marriages. Artist Alix Lambert tackles an unpredictable variety of topics, and Matthew Moyer regains his faith in performance art.
New Orleans Noir
In a city famous for its wild side, New Orleans Noir takes you down the darkest, wildest streets. Half the tales are set in historic New Orleans, while the other half are set in a post-Katrina city. Bob Pomeroy tells you where the bodies are hidden.
Please Release
Sheila Scoville is duly impressed by Nate Watson's autobiographical account of an itinerant life in pursuit of punk's more utopian values - and the pretty pictures, natch. It ain't Spiderman.
Tango for a Torturer
Don't let the blinding sun of the tropics fool you. Daniel Chavarria's new novel is prime Caribbean noir. Sheila Scoville adjusts her sunglasses and observes the bodies piling up.
The Doors
Matt Parish finds himself surrounded by lizard kings, not in an episode of Star Trek, but in the pages of Ben Fong-Torres' exhaustive new photo archive of Jim Morrison and his merry pranksters.
To Live's to Fly
Sheila Scoville discovers the great Townes Van Zandt through John Kruth's freewheeling new testament to the hard-luck cowboy junkie, folk balladeer, lyrical healer and misfit hellion. And that doesn't even begin to sum him up.
