Book Reviews
Review: Don’t Quit Your Day Job! Adventures for the Working...
Don’t Quit Your Day Job! Adventures for the Working Stiff Jay Toberman IUniverse Street: 01.01 Ever since Toberman went on a floozy trip through the stretches of Canada, he has been seeking “adventure” and, unfortunately, writing about it. Recollections of his sparse international trips are bleak journal-styled accounts that go into as much detail and
Review: Empire of Dirt: The Aesthetics and Rituals of British...
Empire of Dirt: The Aesthetics and Rituals of British Indie Music Wendy Fonarow Wesleyn University Press Street: 07.22 Dr. Fonarow exemplifies everything it means to be an academic in the modern world: overthought-out arguments, a compulsive desire to explain everything and the technicality of book learning to back it up. But instead of giving a
Review: Love All the People: Letters, Lyrics, Routines
Love All the People: Letters, Lyrics, Routines Bill Hicks Soft Skull Press Street: 2004 For the uninitiated, the book will likely read as a strange, awakening and perversely offensive post-humous chronology of a warped, angry little man, though god-damn funny. To those already primed in the legacy left by Hicks, this book might very well
Review: So This Is Reading? Life On the Road With...
So This Is Reading? Life On the Road With the Unseen (Audio Book) Tripp Underwood Hopeless Records Street: 10.10 So This Is Reading traces the history of the Unseen from their humble beginnings (in a garage at 16) to their current stance as a punk band that many kids have patches of sewed on their
Review: The Salt Palace
The Salt Palace Darren DeFrain New Issue Press Street: 10.2005 The Salt Palace was written by some smarty-pants who was obviously raised in Utah. It is a story about a Jack Mormon who goes on a road trip. I honestly didn’t like the story very much at all. It had more holes in it than Tupac’s
Review: 33 1/3 Greatest Hits, Volume 1
33 1/3 Greatest Hits, Volume 1 Edited by David Barker Continuum Street: 10.30 As the disclaimer at the beginning of this book advises, the 33 1/3 Greatest Hit series is not for everyone. People who canonize their favorite albums, feeling that their commitment to and investigation of said discs (i.e. the search for the actual
Books Aloud – July 2005
Reviews of Destroying Yourself is Too Accessible, Running on Emptiness: The Pathology of Civilization and the graphic novel Locas: The Maggie And Hopey Stories. … read more
Paganism in Utah: The Pagan Bookshelf
We’ve reviewed several of the excellent books available on paganism. Future columns will feature additional books as well as other pieces of interest. … read more
Book Reviews: March 1992
Here are SLUG’s two literature picks for March of 1992. If anything, they sure aren’t boring. … read more
Books & Literature: December 1991
Imajica is Barker’s most profound and richly imaginative book since the publication of Weaverworld. … read more