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Showing articles 1 to 7 of 7 by Matt Jakubowski
June 17th, 2010
For When: The reds want you dead
Potent stuff distilled from ugly memories, already a
cult movie in Bulgaria, Zift is like a flaming shot of rotgut
smuggled in from the old country.
August 20th, 2009
Arts Picks: Duane Swierczynski
Tue., Aug. 25, 6 p.m., free, McGillin's Olde Ale House, 1310 Drury St., 215-735-5562, mcgillins.com.
Buy a comic book, get a free beer. That's the deal from Duane Swierczynski, Philly pulp novelist, former City Paper editor in chief and veteran writer for Marvel Comics.
August 6th, 2009
Arts Picks: Alia Yunis
Tue., Aug. 11, 7 p.m., free, Penn Bookstore, 3601 Walnut St., 215-898-7595, upenn.bncollege.com.
When we see death coming, we do funny things.
June 11th, 2009
The Moment: You'd rather sink than float
The author is a scholar whose relatives are women
accused in the real Salem trials, so the novel's flashback scenes are
much stronger than Connie's story, which is campy and clichéd.
October 30th, 2008
Book Review: Size Matters
Roberto Bolaño's long-winded last novel stares down the face of death.
Those who take on the 912-page novel will not regret it. The stunning talent, humor and inventiveness on display is more proof that when Bolaño died in 2003 at age 50, the world lost
not just a great Latin American writer, but perhaps one of its greatest
writers, period.
July 10th, 2008
Book Review: Politics and Prose
America America possesses a broad humanitarian spirit.
Ethan Canin presents generations, rich and poor, with
graceful moves in time that give key revelations a steady resonance.
May 15th, 2008
Arts Agenda Picks: Just Do It
Philadelphia Book Festival
Sat.-Sun., May 17-18, 11 a.m.-6 p.m., free, Free Library, Central Branch, 1901 Vine St., 215-686-5322, freelibrary.org/bookfestival
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