Letters At 3 AM [2]
Normon Mailer's "The Time of Our Time" smacks of the posthumous.
— Michael Ventura, AUSTIN CHRONICLE
 
As Queer as It Gets [3]
The meta-trashy prose of Christian McLaughlin.
— Claiborne Smith, AUSTIN CHRONICLE
 

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Stick 'Em Up [4]
Price uses his well-developed gift for seamy reportage and his knack for veristic melodrama to focus on the thorny topic of race.
— Richard C. Walls, THE BOSTON PHOENIX
 
The West's End [5]
An admirably bullheaded and grandiose close to the Border Trilogy turns its back on the notion that the frontier offers any hope of redemption or salvation.
— Tom Scocca, THE BOSTON PHOENIX
 
Sex Toys of the Gods [6]
Review of "Sex Toys of the Gods."
— AUSTIN CHRONICLE
 
Sedate Skinwalker [7]
"Twilight Boy," by Timothy Green, could have been a very good and exciting novel. Instead, it turns out to be a so-so story.
— Michael Peel, TUCSON WEEKLY
 

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"Housekeeper[s], Maniac" [8]
Two hundred years later and a woman's work is still never done. A survey of books on housework.
— Leonard Gill, MEMPHIS FLYER
 
Aristocratic Insight [9]
The Hamptons are revealed to the plebeian masses.
— Leigh Rich, TUCSON WEEKLY
 

ho else but Norman Mailer would stage his own death? Like a suicidal narcissist whose longing for oblivion is overridden by the desire to hear what people say about him at his funeral, Mailer has gone passive-attentive on us. That's right, passive-attentive. How? By releasing a posthumous collection humously. He doesn't admit that, of course, but the need to control how people perceive you after you're gone blinks above the volume like a neon reading light. And Michael Ventura, a literary artist in his own right, has taken the fluorescent bait. He's reviewed Mailer's book less as a work than as a summation of the man's life and stature. Norman Mailer, where are you? You'll want to read this.

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Just Can't Get Enough [11]
More summer reading: reviews of new releases from Dorothy Allison, Peter Fonda, Gary Cartwright, and more.
— AUSTIN CHRONICLE
 

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Rest in Paz [10]
"His Collected Poems" does much to give English-language readers a full view of the remarkable Mexican poet Octavio Paz -- one of the greatest of the 20th century -- and it is a fitting monument.
— Gregory McNamee, TUCSON WEEKLY
 

Now What? [12]
Love to read? Need some clever ideas? Our library of resources and staff picks are guaranteed to turn on plenty of mental light bulbs via your electrified eye sockets.
— WEEKLY WIRE
 

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