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Author Archive: "Brian S."

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Words of Traitors

by Brian S., May 22, 2014 4:02 PM
This is a brutal, darkly funny, and, above all, honest collection of short stories crafted especially for lovers of physical books. Illustration styles and even typeface are carefully matched to enrich the unique narrative experience of each tale. Words of Traitors is a work of art unlike anything you've read before
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The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven

by Brian S., March 6, 2014 5:12 PM
This collection of interconnected stories explore the dreams, passions, contradictions, and heartbreak of being Indian in contemporary America. Bittersweet, poignantly ironic, and at times profoundly humorous, Alexie's writing is passionate and vivid. This is the work of a tremendous literary talent expertly telling the stories of a Northwest too many people refuse to acknowledge. Essential reading
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John Dies at the End by David Wong

by Brian S., October 11, 2013 11:20 AM
If you're a fan of the movie, this book has everything you loved about it: the gut-wrenchingly funny juxtaposition of lowbrow humor and surrealism, the gore, the impending sense of doom that soaks the narrative until you're coated in a sticky quagmire of horror and humor. All of that is here only amped up by a factor of at least 10. What the movie misses the mark on is the sense of existential dread that permeates the book, making this a novel that is haunting and genuinely scary instead of just being mostly weird and funny like the film
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Broken Music by Sting

by Brian S., September 27, 2013 4:27 PM
Most celebrity musician memoirs amount to not much more than an inevitable litany of the excesses that come with the dubious position of rock star. Sting, however, makes the interesting (and refreshing) choice to stop his memoir right before The Police hit it big. While the opening recollection of his first experience with the entheogen ayahuasca is worth the price of admission alone, Broken Music unfolds itself into a wonderfully written memoir. Melancholic and beautiful, the story of the people, places, and events that carried Sting to the world stage is a rewarding experience no matter how one feels about his musical
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Tupac: Resurrection by Jacob Hoye and Karolyn Ali

by Brian S., September 9, 2013 5:25 PM
Designed as a companion piece to the documentary film of the same name, this highly unconventional posthumous memoir is functionally a curated exhibit of Tupac Amaru Shakur's short life. Eschewing an outside perspective, excerpts from interviews, previously unpublished lyrics and poetry, prison letters, and assorted documents allow the words he left behind to tell his own story. Further illuminated by accompanying photographs, this book goes a long way toward cutting through the sensationalist hype that dogged his career, revealing the very human and complex Gramscian artist beneath, whose contradictions and passions made being an intellectual something that seemed attainable for those living outside the ivory towers of academia and the gilded halls of established political
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