Week in the World: Podcasts Galore
It’s been a big month in podcast world. Here are a few that have been especially amazing. Judd Apatow sat down at Largo for Jeff Garlin’s incredible live show By the Way, in Conversation with Jeff...
View ArticleNew in Paperback for September
Here are a few new paperbacks to usher in the fall season, and some you might have missed in hardcover last year. The Bradbury Chronicles: The Life of Ray Bradbury by Sam Weller Accomplished journalist...
View ArticleNew in Paperback for October
It was near impossible keeping this month’s roundup short. Lots of good stuff coming out in October. Hit the bookstores! How to Read a Novelist by John Freeman For the last fifteen years, whenever a...
View ArticleQuick Takes: Runaways by Brian K. Vaughan and Adrian Alphona
When Brian K. Vaughan’s comic book series Saga came out last year you couldn’t turn your head without reading a rave review. Lesser known and just as worthy of the same praise is his award-winning...
View ArticleNew in Paperback for November
Here’s what’s looking good this month in paperback. Shantytown by Cesar Aira Maxi, a middle-class, directionless ox of a young man who helps the trash pickers of Buenos Aires’s shantytown, attracts the...
View ArticleLegends in Exile, the folklore of Bill Willingham
The story opens in modern day New York City. A man rushes out of a taxi on the corner of Bullfinch and Kipling and into The Woodland Luxury Apartments. He runs past the office of S. White and barges...
View ArticleNew in Paperback for December
Here are just a few paperback releases coming out this month that have caught my eye. Black Is the Color by Julia Gfrorer Black is the Color begins with a 17th-century sailor abandoned at sea by his...
View ArticleNew in Paperback for February
Here are just a few paperbacks coming out this month that have caught my eye. Artful by Ali Smith Artful is a celebration of literature’s worth in and to the world—it is about the things art can do,...
View ArticleNew in Paperback for March
Keep your eye out for these paperbacks coming out this month. Made to Break by D. Foy Two days before New Years, a pack of five friends–three men and two women–head to a remote cabin near Lake Tahoe to...
View ArticleMy Friend Dahmer by Derf Backderf
The best books elicit emotions from its readers. Truly great books give rise to conflicted feelings. My Friend Dahmer, the graphic novel by Derf Backderf, falls firmly within that second category....
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