Book Reviews
Review: Drawing Blood
If you follow Molly Crabapple online, you might know bits and pieces, but in Drawing Blood, we get a chance to really dive into what makes her tick, what drives her art and why the lowbrow workers are the stars of her illustrations, with the upper-class left as pigs on the sidelines. … read more
Review: The Avengers Encyclopedia
In the wake of Phase 2 ending in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, casual fans have had a lot to digest. Don’t get me wrong—there’s a lot of Marvel’s canon that people don’t really need to know in order for them to carry on with anything they’re currently watching, but there is a section of that audience who want to know more and just have no clue where to start. … read more
Review: Prompt Me
Prompt Me W.P. Kimball Self-Released Street: 09.01 Prompt Me is an excellent example of the proliferation of flash fiction in the Internet age—this being loosely defined as any story under 1,000 words—and W.P. Kimball is one of the better writers in this form that I’ve come across in my limited experience. Kimball focuses most of her
Review: The Pop Festival
Book reviews for Beale Street Dynasty, The Pop Festival and Prompt Me. … read more
Review: Beale Street Dynasty
Beale Street Dynasty: Sex, Song, and the Struggle for the Soul of Memphis Preston Lauterbach W. Norton and Company Street: 03.30 Beale Street Dynasty is an essential and engaging book that goes into great depth about the glory, success and power of the black community of Memphis, Tennessee. Preston Lauterbach weaves a remarkable tale of
Review: Hunger Makes Me A Modern Girl by Carrie Brownstein
For Sleater-Kinney fans, Modern Girl’s stride hits when Brownstein plunges into the riot grrrl movement with full force. … read more
Review: Saltfront Vol. 3
The third edition of Saltfront continues to inspire with its assortment of environmentally charged works of poetry, photographs, essays and short stories. … read more
Review: But I Could Never Go Vegan!
A collection of delectable and creative vegan recipes answers common objections of adopting a plant-based lifestyle in But I Could Never Go Vegan!. … read more
Dead Kennedys’ Fresh Fruit For Rotting Vegetables (33 1/3)
Michael Stewart Foley’s Fresh Fruit For Rotting Vegetables casts Dead Kennedys as a product of the darkness and seemingly hopelessness of the late 1970s. … read more
Review: DEVO’s Freedom of Choice 33 1/3
This book details the significance of Freedom of Choice, the third album in Devo’s impressive catalogue and arguably their most notable. … read more