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Worst of Both Worlds
On Tuesday, musician Ben Folds (formerly of the Five) and rock-obsessed novelist Nick Hornby ( High Fidelity ) released a collaborative record called Lonely Avenue . The result of this musical-literary team-up isn't excruciating.

By: EUGENIA WILLIAMSON | September 29, 2010

Indie rules

Small-press fiction that sings
Small-press fiction that sings

By: EUGENIA WILLIAMSON | September 28, 2010

Review: Tattoos and Tequila

Oh Crüe world! Vince Neil lets us down — hard
I bought The Dirt , Mötley Crüe's 2002 autobiography, the day it was published. I got home from the store, sank to the floor, had a nice cry (it had been hot out and my finger hurt), and started reading.

By: STUART ALLEN | September 22, 2010

Man about Town: Chuck Hogan

Chuck Hogan’s Boston novel turned into this fall’s biggest heist movie — maybe now people will start recognizing him
One day back in 2009, Chuck Hogan snuck onto the set of the movie adaptation of his own novel. He was not recognized, once, by anyone at all.

By: EUGENIA WILLIAMSON | September 15, 2010

Boston gets its own indie comix show

The bastard medium
I will now sing the praise of independent and small-press comics conventions.

By: S.I. ROSENBAUM | September 23, 2010

Review: John Brandon's Citrus County

Creeps done well: Anti-social wonderland
Pre-teen creeps abound in contemporary cinema.

By: EUGENIA WILLIAMSON | September 15, 2010

Review: William Gibson's Zero History

Fashionista: Gibson in the present tense
It’s been more than 10 years since he’s set a book anywhere but the present. Regardless, cyberpunk visionary William Gibson’s new novel still occupies top spots in multiple amazon.com science-fiction rankings this week.

By: JOHN BOWKER | September 14, 2010

Fall Books Preview: Getting booked

Readings, festivals, and other seasonal literary events
Two Sedarises, two New Yorker favorites, and a famous neurologist are among the highlights of this fall’s book events.

By: EUGENIA WILLIAMSON | September 14, 2010

Review: Per Petterson plumbs The River of Time

Norse code
Why would Per Petterson — the bestselling Scandinavian writer whose books don't feature an invincible crimefighting heroine — curse the river of time when he is so adept at navigating it?

By: PETER KEOUGH | September 07, 2010

Interview: Gary Shteyngart

Dystopia now
Onionskin jeans are transparent, cost a fortune, and send your fuckability rating off the charts.

By: EUGENIA WILLIAMSON | September 07, 2010

Interview: David Foster Wallace

Talking about fiction, fellatio and meddling editors with the only American essayist who uses "like" as punctuation.
Editor's Note: This story originally appeared in the February 20, 1998 edition of the Boston Phoenix .

By: TOM SCOCCA | November 30, 2010

Review: Rob Sheffield's inner Sheena

Womanly man
It was probably a common impulse, wanting to save Rob Sheffield.

By: AMY FINCH | August 31, 2010

Now it can be told: Boston to read Perrotta

One City, One Story
If you haven't read Tom Perrotta's short story "The Smile on Happy Chang's Face," don't worry: there are 30,000 opportunities to do so coming to town very soon.

By: EUGENIA WILLIAMSON | August 29, 2010

Critics' choice?

Jonathan Franzen and the Great American Novel
This month, Jonathan Franzen became the first living American novelist in 10 years to make the cover of Time . His Freedom — out this Tuesday, and his first novel since 2001's National Book Award–winning best seller, The Corrections — has been anointed the latest Great American Novel.

By: EUGENIA WILLIAMSON | August 29, 2010

Interview: Alexander Zaitchik

Alexander Zaitchik deconstructs Glenn Beck
It's hard to find words to describe how equally salacious and asinine it is that, on August 28, Fox News merrymaker Glenn Beck is hosting a Tea Party rally on the National Mall to coincide with the 47th anniversary of Martin Luther King Jr.'s "I Have a Dream" speech.

By: CHRIS FARAONE | August 23, 2010

Review: The World That Never Was

Lies your teacher told you about anarchism
Some marketing wizard gave Oxford-based historian Alex Butterworth's exhaustive history of the international anarchist movement a fun title it doesn't deserve.

By: CLIF GARBODEN | August 17, 2010

Perfect worlds

J.C. Hallman's utopias
In utopia, everything is wonderful. Reading about it usually isn't.

By: EUGENIA WILLIAMSON | August 15, 2010

A good walk

Gail Caldwell remembers Caroline Knapp
Before Caroline Knapp died of lung cancer — in 2002, at age 42 — she'd gone bestseller with the most private of torments: her alcoholism (in Drinking: A Love Story ) and her anorexia ( Appetites: Why Women Want ).

By: AMY FINCH | August 09, 2010

Interview: Paolo Bacigalupi talks about The Windup Girl

Paolo Bacigalupi talks about The Windup Girl

By: ARAFAT KAZI | August 06, 2010

Ellis's endgame

Less than Less Than Zero
A quarter-century after the debut of Less Than Zero , in what amounts to a self-referential epilogue, Ellis's spoiled children have grown into spoiled adults, and the magnets in their moral compasses rest askew.

By: CARRIE BATTAN | July 27, 2010

Interview: Carl Hiaasen

Rounding up the usual suspects
Novelist Carl Hiaasen likes to create scenarios where very bad and tremendously satisfying things happen to despicable people: crooked politicians, real-estate scammers, environment despoilers, greedy bastards of all stripes.

By: JIM SULLIVAN | July 22, 2010

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