Books

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  Silly Little Show-Biz Book Club Is The Kid Stays In The Picture a masterpiece Hollywood memoir? Oh yeah

  Will prolonged exposure to Robert Evans’ prose lead to talking like him? You bet your ass.

  March 7, 2013 | 12:00pm -

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  AVQ&A What are you reading this month? (March 2013)

  We look at some of the month’s releases and ask our staff and readers what books they’re currently exploring.

  March 6, 2013 | 12:00pm -

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  Newswire Free download: an exclusive Ted Leo track about DC Pierson’s kingdom of crap 

  New free music, plus some of our favorite old free music.

  March 4, 2013 | 3:00pm -

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  YA Why? In February’s best YA book, a frustrated teen kills himself over and over

  Gregory Galloway’s second novel addresses despair and suicide sympathetically, and without flinching.

  March 4, 2013 | 12:00pm -

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  Book Review Po Bronson and Ashley Merryman: Top Dog: The Science Of Winning And Losing

  A new pop-science book from the authors of NurtureShock explores studies that define how people compete and succeed or fail.

  March 4, 2013 | 12:01am -

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  Book Review Tom Folsom: Hopper

  A new Dennis Hopper biography goes awkwardly gonzo.

  March 4, 2013 | 12:00am -

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  Book Review Karen Lord: The Best Of All Possible Worlds

  Massive events spark small-scale romance in this frustratingly micro-focused but well-executed science-fiction novel.

  March 4, 2013 | 12:00am -

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  Newswire Joe Wright directing film adaptation of Neil Gaiman’s upcoming adult novel, skeptical question mark?

  Tom Hanks’ production company is reportedly grabbing even more Neil Gaiman writing so nobody else can have any.

  March 1, 2013 | 1:45pm -

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  Big Issues Hawkeye and FF deliver a one-two punch of superhero romance

  Two Matt Fraction titles show how valuable a little love can be in creating an emotional narrative.

  March 1, 2013 | 12:00pm -

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  AVQ&A Favorite poems

  This week, the staff and readers discuss the poetry that sticks with us.

  March 1, 2013 | 12:00am -

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  Comics Panel New comics releases include an attention-seeking Justice League and a wine-comics exchange

  Also reviewed: A bloody, good Kill Shakespeare, a Bernard Krigstein anthology, and new Powers.

  February 26, 2013 | 12:00pm -

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  Book Review Karen Russell: Vampires In The Lemon Grove: Stories

  The author of Swamplandia! and St. Lucy’s Home For Girls Raised By Wolves returns with another stellar set of short stories that expand her range.

  February 25, 2013 | 12:02am -

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  Book Review Tommy Mottola with Cal Fussman: Hitmaker: The Man And His Music

  In this babbly, unsatisfying memoir, the longtime head of Sony Music Entertainment paints himself as a nice guy who was elsewhere when controversy happened.

  February 25, 2013 | 12:01am -

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  Book Review Alejandro Zambra: Ways Of Going Home

  An acclaimed Chilean author tries to translate the effects of poetry into a ruminative novel, with mixed results.

  February 25, 2013 | 12:00am -

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  Big Issues Young heroes get a big push in Nova and Vibe

  wo new series take vastly different approaches introducing fledgling superheroes.

  February 22, 2013 | 12:00pm -

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  Great Job, Internet! Read 12 new Neil Gaiman mini-stories online, then help illustrate them 

  The author known for his quiet, lyrical fables produces 12 more, based on reader prompts.

  February 19, 2013 | 2:00pm -

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  Book Review Dwayne Epstein: Lee Marvin: Point Blank

  The star of Cat Ballou, Point Blank, and many more finally gets the full bio treatment, but it reads like a first draft.

  February 18, 2013 | 12:02am -

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  Book Review R.S. Belcher: The Six-Gun Tarot

  This debut Western fantasy reads like the comfortable finale of a colorful TV series.

  February 18, 2013 | 12:01am -

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  Book Review Dave Barry: Insane City

  The humorist and novelist continues his transformation into a cut-rate Elmore Leonard.

  February 18, 2013 | 12:00am -

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  Big Issues Have X-Men comics entered a new golden age?

  Two X-titles showcase the vast potential in the current status quo of Marvel’s Merry Mutants.

  February 15, 2013 | 12:00pm -

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  Silly Little Show-Biz Book Club The sordid story of Hollywood in the ’80s is lost on William Stadiem’s Moneywood

  A book that purports to be an insider account is nothing of the sort.

  February 14, 2013 | 12:00pm -

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  Great Job, Internet! Check out the many hats of Dr. Seuss

  It's a pretty motley collection.

  February 13, 2013 | 1:40pm -

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  Comics Panel Freddie Stories, One Trick Rip-Off, and Nemo in recent comics releases

  Also reviewed: the latest Before Watchmen story and a Valentine’s Day anthology chronicling superheroes in love and lust.

  February 11, 2013 | 12:00pm -

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  Book Review Lawrence Wright: Going Clear: Scientology, Hollywood, & The Prison Of Belief

  A New Yorker profile on how Oscar-winning director Paul Haggis broke from Scientology gets the full book treatment with this riveting history of the organization.

  February 11, 2013 | 12:02am -

• Book Review Adam Mansbach: Rage Is Back

  The author of Go The Fuck To Sleep returns to adult novels with this flawed but compelling novel about a tagger’s murder by an up-and-coming politico.

  February 11, 2013 | 12:00am -

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  Book Review J. G. Ballard: Miracles Of Life: Shanghai To Shepperton

  Diagnosed with terminal cancer, the author of Crash and Empire Of The Sun wrote this final book, a telling, analytical autobiography.

  February 11, 2013 | 12:00am -

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  Big Issues New Green Arrow and Winter Soldier creative teams rise to the challenge in different ways

  Incoming creative teams spotlight the different ways to take over an established, ongoing superhero book.

  February 8, 2013 | 12:00pm -

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  AVQ&A What are you reading this month? (February 2013)

  We look at some of the month’s releases and ask our staff and readers what books they’re currently exploring.

  February 6, 2013 | 12:00pm -

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  Back Issues The final book of The Sandman’s main run ends one Dream and begins another

  Our collective look back at Neil Gaiman’s groundbreaking comics series concludes with a look at different kinds of wakes, and last thoughts on the series.

  February 5, 2013 | 12:00pm -

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  Book Review Pete Wentz with James Montgomery: Gray

  Fall Out Boy’s Pete Wentz ventures into semi-biographical novel-writing, but can’t escape his own abstracted navel.

  February 4, 2013 | 12:02am -