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Jubilee Hitchhiker: The Life and Times of Richard Brautigan – A Biography of the Novelist and Poet by William Hjortsberg

On May 23, 2012, in Biographies & Memoirs, Book Reviews, Nonfiction, by Editor

Confident and robust, Jubilee Hitchhiker is an comprehensive biography of late novelist and poet Richard Brautigan, author of Troutfishing in America and A Confederate General from Big Sur, among many others. When Brautigan took his own life in September of 1984 his close friends and network of artists and writers were devastated though not entirely surprised. To many, Brautigan was shrouded in enigma, erratic and unpredictable in his habits and presentation.

Who Is That Man?: In Search of the Real Bob Dylan by David Dalton

On April 8, 2012, in Biographies & Memoirs, Book Reviews, Entertainment, Music, Nonfiction, by Editor

For almost half a century, Bob Dylan has been a primary catalyst in rock’s shifting sensibilities. Few American artists are as important, beloved, and endlessly examined, yet he remains something of an enigma. Who, we ask, is the “real” Bob Dylan? Is he Bobby Zimmerman, yearning to escape Hibbing, Minnesota, or the Woody Guthrie wannabe playing Greenwich Village haunts?

Rub Out the Words: The Letters of William S. Burroughs 1959-1974

On February 4, 2012, in Book Reviews, Essays, Nonfiction, by Editor

An intimate glimpse into the private life of an often misunderstood artist, Rub Out the Words is also an unforgettable portrait of one of the twentieth century’s most uncompromising literary personalities.

Ben Jonson: A Life – The Greatest Of Shakespeare’s Contemporaries by Ian Donaldson

On January 21, 2012, in Biographies & Memoirs, Book Reviews, History, Nonfiction, by Editor

Ben Jonson was the greatest of Shakespeare’s contemporaries. His fame rests not only on the numerous plays he had written, but on his achievements over three decades as principal masque-writer to the early Stuart court, where he had worked in creative, if at times stormy, collaboration with Inigo Jones. One of the most accomplished poets of the age, he was–in fact if not in title–the first Poet Laureate in England.

The Last Holiday: A Posthumous Memoir by Gil Scott Heron

On January 10, 2012, in Biographies & Memoirs, Book Reviews, Nonfiction, by Editor

This posthumous publication of The Last Holiday is a fitting testament to the career and achievements of Gil Scott-Heron. But it is also a heartfelt and highly personal account of his growing up in the South, a touching portrait of Stevie Wonder, and a compelling narrative vehicle for Scott-Heron’s keen insights into the music industry, the civil rights movement, modern America, governmental hypocrisy, and our wider place in the world.

From the Mouth of the Whale – A Historical Novel Of Life In Iceland by Sjon

On January 6, 2012, in Book Reviews, Fiction, Historical Novel, by Editor

The year is 1635. Iceland is a world darkened by superstition, poverty, and cruelty. Men of science marvel over a unicorn’s horn, poor folk worship the Virgin in secret, and both books and men are burnt.

Prime Green: Remembering the Sixties – A Memoir by Robert Stone

On August 12, 2011, in Biographies & Memoirs, Book Reviews, History, Nonfiction, by Editor

It’s a long, strange trip that’s navigated in this engaging memoir. Novelist Stone (A Hall of Mirrors) recounts his salad days from a stint in the navy in the late 1950s to a desultory trip to Vietnam as a correspondent during the disastrous 1971 invasion of Laos. Stone largely sat out the civil rights and antiwar movements and cops to no ideology beyond “ordinary decency.”

Disaster Was My God: A Novel of the Outlaw Life of Arthur Rimbaud by Bruce Duffy

On August 7, 2011, in Biographies & Memoirs, Book Reviews, Nonfiction, by Editor

Arthur Rimbaud, the enfant terrible of French letters, more than holds his own with Lord Byron and Oscar Wilde in terms of bold writing and salacious interest. In the space of one year—1871—with a handful of startling poems he transformed himself from a teenaged bumpkin into the literary sensation of Paris.

I Wore the Ocean in the Shape of a Girl: A Memoir by Kelle Groom

On June 24, 2011, in Biographies & Memoirs, Book Reviews, Nonfiction, by Editor

In stirring, hypnotic prose, I Wore the Ocean in the Shape of a Girl explores the most painful aspects of Kelle’s addiction and loss with unflinching honesty and bold determination. Urgent and vital, exquisite and raw, her story is as much about maternal love as it is about survival, as much about acceptance as it is about forgiveness.

Sigerson Clifford – The Boys Of Barr Na Sraide

On May 26, 2010, in Irish Songbook, Sigerson Clifford, by Editor

The song is based on a poem by Sigerson Clifford, who was born in Cahersiveen, and it tells the story of the boys of Barr Na Sraide – Top Street – who hunted for the wren.

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