Posts tagged “review”
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Anna Anthropy’s new game Encyclopedia Fuckme reviewed on The Escapist
October 25, 2011
“In a community as desperately inbred as the one that surrounds videogames, I think it’s important to confront potentially sheltered players with the fact that identity and sexuality are far broader than they may have assumed.”
Tags: anna anthropy, review, rise of the videogame zinesters, videogame
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“There Are Things I Want You to Know” About Stieg Larsson and Me gets Vanity Fair treatment
June 9, 2011
“Stieg did not sit down one day at his computer and announce, “I’m going to write a crime novel!” In a way, he never even formally began to write one at all, because he never drew up an outline for the first book, or the next two, still less for the seven he intended should follow. Stieg wrote sequences that were often unrelated to the others. Then he would “stitch” them together, following the thread of the story and his inclination. In summer 2002, during a week-long island vacation, I could see he was a bit bored. I was working on my book about the Swedish architect Per Olof Hallman, but Stieg was at loose ends, going around in circles.”
Tags: eva gabrielsson, review, stieg larsson, stiegandeva, there are things i want you to know, vanity fair
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Sacramento News & Review on Gary Webb’s new anthology
May 19, 2011
““The Killing Game”: Selected Writings by the Author of Dark Alliance demonstrates that what [Gary Webb] did, all the time, was investigative reporting. He did it like other people walk or breathe. Gary corralled facts, sniffed out leads, tracked down documents and then put them into a story that wasn’t just coherent, it was interesting and important.”– Sacramento News & Review
Tags: dark alliance, gary webb, killing game, review, sacramento
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3:AM Magazine names Nelson Algren “cult hero”
May 18, 2011
Nelson Algren was very much like John Steinbeck. Both were from families of modest means, both came across the harsh realities of their fellow human beings and those who had missed out on the American dream. But where Steinbeck wrote of migrant workers with a poetic optimism, Algren wrote of urban dwellers with a naturalistic pen. Like Stephen Crane’s Maggie, Algren’s Francis Majcinek is the victim of forces he cannot control, and is resigned to a tragic fate.
Tags: 3:AM magazine, man with the golden arm, nelson algren, review
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Elevate Difference reviews Birth Matters
April 15, 2011
Gaskin brought to her writing a powerful feminist stance and a tremendous feeling of sisterhood. She does not only claim to believe in women; she lives this message. Her unwavering trust in women’s bodies and capacities to make the right choices for them based on unbiased, accurate information felt every bit as empowering as I’m sure she meant it.
Tags: birth matters, elevate difference, feminism, ina may gaskin, motherhood, pregnancy, review
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NOW Toronto: Midwifery is the world’s oldest profession
March 24, 2011
For the record, midwifery, not prostitution, is the world’s oldest profession. You’d think, then, that the ancient art of assisting at birth could get some respect. But, especially in the United States, the rights of birthing mothers to make decisions about their own bodies and have access to midwives continue to be trampled by the medical establishment . . . the Manifesta itself, a call for a return to the age-old knowledge women have always had about our bodies and a movement to support it, is required reading.
Tags: birth, birth matters, ina may gaskin, motherhood, parenting, review
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New review of Mischa Merz’s The Sweetest Thing
March 24, 2011
“The Sweetest Thing: A Boxer’s Memoir (Seven Stories Press, 2011) is a highly readable chronicle of [Merz's] immersion, at the age of forty-five, into real, gritty, fierce competition. . . . This is a rare journey inside the packed gym locker of a true fighter’s brain, a journalist who can take you with her on a wild and brave ride. Fasten your seatbelts – Mischa Merz is a boxer to watch. And more women are coming.” — Binnie Klein, author of Blows to the Head: How Boxing Changed My Mind
Tags: boxing, mischa merz, review, sports, sweetest thing, women
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New review of Mischa Merz’s The Sweetest Thing
March 24, 2011
“The Sweetest Thing: A Boxer’s Memoir (Seven Stories Press, 2011) is a highly readable chronicle of [Merz's] immersion, at the age of forty-five, into real, gritty, fierce competition. . . . This is a rare journey inside the packed gym locker of a true fighter’s brain, a journalist who can take you with her on a wild and brave ride. Fasten your seatbelts – Mischa Merz is a boxer to watch. And more women are coming.” — Binnie Klein, author of Blows to the Head: How Boxing Changed My Mind
Tags: boxing, mischa merz, review, sports, the sweetest thing
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Birth Matters gets starred review in Publishers Weekly
March 18, 2011
Internationally recognized midwife and maternity advocate Gaskin here takes a new look at birth throughout history and as it is accomplished today, making another scientifically supported claim for birth as a natural process. In light of the current trend of rising maternal mortality rates combined with escalating maternity care costs per capita, Gaskin pleads for “greater involvement of women in the formulation of maternity care policy and in the education of young women and men about birth.” Famous for founding The Farm in Tennessee (1971), where natural birth surrounded by friends and family is the norm and not the exception, and for her influential book Spiritual Midwifery, Gaskin, as the foremost authority on homebirth, is important to many subject specialists. Her new title elegantly covers the normalcy and power of birth, includes birth stories, and makes sound arguments for more support and less intervention. An essential acquisition. —Publishers Weekly
Tags: birth matters, ina may gaskin, nonfiction, publishers weekly, review, spiritual midwifery
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Babble’s “10 Things I Learned from Ina May Gaskin”
March 9, 2011
“Mother of modern midwifery,” Ina May Gaskin dropped some knowledge on a posse of nurses, educators and doulas last night in New York City and I was lucky enough to be there.
Tags: birth, birth matters, ina may gaskin, review