Comment Archives: stories: Books
Re: “Nude Awakening”
Jock Sturges is an AMAZING photographer. Keep up the excellent work Jock!!! Mark Montgomery NYC, NY boboberg@nyc.rr.com
Re: “Phoenix's Future”
Thanks for the insightful review, Tim. Back in early November, the Pinal County Greens recommended this book: http://pinalcountygreens.blogspot.com/2011…
I hope it's okay that I just posted an update linking to your review. Thanks again!
Re: “Picking on Papa”
Re: Jarret Keene review of Hemingway: A Desperate Life by David Ray
Keene is quite entitled to his opinion of David Ray’s opinion of Hemingway, but Ray’s book is no more a critique of Hemingway’s writing than Keene’s review is of Ray’s. Other than a general dismissal of Ray’s book, Keene has ignored Ray’s poetry, so I guess we can justifiably ignore Keenes’s review. Read Ray’s book and decide for yourself: poet’s revenge or a scholar and admirer of Hemingway’s work who is able to separate the man from his writing?
Peter Lowenthal
Re: “The Cowboy Way”
Jon Shumaker is a class act. Tucson Weekly's brand is counterculture, we're for the underdog, but you are the very establishment the anti-Wall Street is protesting. “Man the fuck up,” (thanks Zel) and either pay him what he's worth, or fire his ass so he’ll write the Tom Wolfe novel burning inside of him you lame ducks have been too arrogant and self-absorbed all these years to recognize. Your pittance reminds one of what Godfather author Mario Puzo was variously quoted as saying, "If you want to get paid from a publisher, go in with a mask and a gun." Shame on the fish wrapper Tucson Weekly! The Big Dog
Re: “Borders and Bridges”
I believe the fence, unlike the Berlin Wall, is to keep Aliens out not to keep U.S. Citizens in!
Re: “Cult Concerns”
Darrell James has written an wonderful book. I just finished reading this book and stay up past my bedtime doing it, but it was such a good storyline that it was worth it. I cannot waite to see where Darrell takes Del in the next installment.
Re: “Top Ten in Books”
must we have smutty ads on this page?
Re: “Teacher's Pedagogy”
This review was absolutely scintillating and the book even more. Also, I found that he has a website at http://mcilroywritingservices.com which other readers may enjoy as a biographical companion.
Re: “Teacher's Pedagogy”
Thank you for the wonderful, insightful review so richly deserved by this moving book.
Re: “A Glorified Nobody”
I had the pleasure of attending Jeff Guinn's discussions at the Festival of Books the last two years. Very interesting guy, as were the other panelists. They seems to be a group of modern historians writing in a "Stephen Ambrose-esque" style. That is, writing a story of history in an eminently readable way yet backing that story with major research. Have been looking forward to this book coming out and will be at the book signing.
Re: “Shifts in Story”
Hear Susan Cummins Miller read at Other Voices Reading Series this Friday, Apr 8th at 7:30 p.m., at Antigone Books. More info:
http://www.tucsonweekly.com/tucson/EventSe…
Re: “Media Matters”
My new novel "The Miraculous Plot of Leiter & Lott" is now available in all ebook formats, and is set in Tucson and Dubai. --Jonathan Lowe
Re: “In-Between”
I ran into Jim Kristofic's "Navajos Wear Nikes" while searching for basketball references for a book I am writing on hoops. While Kristofic's book mentions basketball only in passing, I was not disappointed with the content. It is exciting to read. I was most impressed with the interplay of languages (Navajo, English) and the fun Jim and his schoolmates had communicating. It's an outstanding book from a great publisher, University of New Mexico Press. The book should do well in New Mexico because a good part of the Rez is in the state and the basketball teams dominate the state tournament in Albuquerque every year in several small to middle-sized school divisions.
Re: “Reading Tucson”
All of us brothers and sisters, inheritors, of the one God!
Re: “Reading Tucson”
Micky, while I see where you're coming from, the fact is that words are living objects, and their meanings change. Anglo, according to Webster's, means "a white inhabitant of the United States of non-Hispanic descent." http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/…
Re: “Reading Tucson”
I havn't read the whole article, but I intend to. Just reading the first paragraphs, I notice the word anglos. I have to inform, that just because we're white, doesn't mean we're anglos. Some of us are Gaelic, Slavic, Gaulic, Germanic, Scandinavian, Spanish, and so on. Tucson expatriate, Micky Smythe
Re: “Reading Tucson”
Thanks for the great reveiws. Some subjects for an enterprising Chattaqua actor here.
Re: “Tour Brochure?”
Students, scholars and other Cimarron Sea wayfarers should include on their book shelves:
•The Log from the Sea of Cortez by John Steinbeck and E.F. Ricketts, New York: Penguin, 1941, a perennial favorite read of mine. The literary giant was the first to sound the alarm of industrial fishing in the Sea of Cortez during his coastal hugging cruise with biologist Ed Ricketts from Cannery Row to the Upper Gulf.
•Tales from Tiburon: An Anthology of Adventures in Seriland, Neil B. Carmony and David E. Brown, eds. Phoenix: Southwest Natural History Association, 1983, another perennial favorite. Seasoned editors of the Southwest, Carmony and Brown present an intriguing anthology of Tiburon Island’s adventures, disasters, and ethnology.
•People of the Desert and the Sea: Ethnobotany of the Seri Indians by Richard Stephen Felger and Mary Beck Moser, Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 1985, is the go-to, must have reference of the Comcáac, (Seri people), their arts, language, traditions, and the biogeography of the Sea of Cortez and the sear reaches of the midriff islands and the gulf coast desert.
John Annerino
Re: “In-Between”
This is a funny and touching book. I'm glad it is getting some press.
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Re: “Deposited by Angels”
I went to the mission with my boys in 2000 and had very strange experiences. Staying a a neaby hotel I had dreams abour a priest and how a women feel in love with him and he refused her love because she had an affair.. Then when I went there I went to the hill nearby where the gate is and saw and felt such terror, fear and destruction. It was like people were being massacred all around. Then when I went to go in the church it was hard fir ne. I just wanted to cry and my boys had to kead me in. Looking around I felt so much pain and couldn't even look at anything without feeling so strange. It was kike I had to get out of there and once I got outside I could breath. Even looking at pictures now I just see glowing and someting I don't understand. I saw so many strange visions there and don't really understand them.
Thank you Michele Skillett Lincoln Nebraska