LITERARY/ART
>Book
Review: A little mess is good for you (SF Chronicle)
>Book
Review: The answers can be as simple as going outside/
"The Walk" (SF Chronicle)
>Discover
what is Iron Crotch (Boston Globe)
>Feature:
Poet Kevin Young teaches 'to liberate all the voices' (CS Monitor)
>Book
review: Lore of the 'Rings' is the lure of 'Húrin' (Boston Globe)
>Book
review: Return of the king of Middle-earth: J.R.R. Tolkien (CS Monitor)
>Book review: Are you there, God? It's me, Darcey. (SF Chronicle)
>Three's
company: A local ad agency encourages emerging authors on its staff (Boston
Globe)
> www.literarytraveler.com,
Dec, 2006: "J.R.R. Tolkien and C. S. Lewis: A Literary Friendship
and Rivalry"
>San
Francisco Chronicle, October 2, 2006: review of de Botton's new book
"The Architecture of Happiness"
>Boston
Globe, December 13, 2006
-- "Too little revelation in this 'Spiritual Journey'" -- review
of "The Other Side of Loneliness: A Spiritual Journey"
>San
Francisco Chronicle,
Sunday, June 25, 2006, "Harper Lee still a mystery" Book
review
>Boston
Sunday Globe, April 23, 2006: "Bringing
fresh eyes to the Brickbottom: Drawn by wide-open design contest"
-- architecture
>Boston
Globe,
September 10, 2006: "Journey
to the center of the earth: A history of theories about what is -- or
isn't -- at its core" (Book review: "Hollow Earth: The Long
and Curious History of Imagining Strange Lands, Fantastical Creatures,
Advanced Civilizations, and Marvellous Machines Below the Earth's Surface"
By David Standish)
>The
Common Review, Spring 2006 (cover story): "Epic Proportions: Tracking
the business of Beowulf"
>San
Francisco Chronicle, March 26, 2006, BOOKS
>San Francisco Chronicle,
December 18, 2005, Books: "Barth is back to his metafictional tricks"
>Boston
Globe, January 4, 2006: "The
Scene is Slamming: Performance poetry is no longer just an underground
art form"
>Boston
Globe, January 8, 2006, Books: "Making a circuitous search for
selfhood" (two book reviews: "A Left-Hand Turn Around the World:
Chasing the Mystery and Meaning of All Things Southpaw" By David
Wolman and "The Underdog: How I Survived the World's Most Outlandish
Competitions" By Joshua Davis)
>San
Francisco Chronicle, October 23, 2005, Books: "A sober poet's
garden" (review of Patrick Lane's memoir "What the Stones Remember")
> San Francisco ChronicleBOOKS: "A mixed-race
crusader takes on the lynch mobs: a review of the novel The Moon in Our
Hands", March 13, 2005"
Boston Globe > BOOK REVIEW: `Skeletons' is a harrowing tale of survival,
5/24/2004
Paris Notes, Dec '03/Jan '04
>> The Write Stuff: When writers need a new perspective, they head
to Paris, or so the mythology goes
Boston Globe, July 20, 2003
>> Springtime in Paris: For his new play, Hershey Felder took his
cast, crew to France to soak up the spirit of Chopin
San Francisco Chronicle,
2/22/2004 >"Baseball, jazz and everything in between: a review of the
poetry of William Matthews"
Boston
Globe, 1/29/2004
>"Studs Terkel collection is uneven, but it still has the power
to inspire"
Boston
Globe, 1/11/2004
>How the 'leaning tower' declined but did not fall, and so saved Pisa
San
Francisco Chronicle, November 9, 2003
>'Hottentot Venus' speaks from beyond the grave; Novel envisions tribal
woman Sarah Baartman's tragic, exploited life as a carnival 'specimen':
a book review of Hottentot Venus
Boston Globe, November 9, 2003
> KYOTO TEA CEREMONIES TOO WEAK A BREW FOR SUSTENANCE: a review of
UNTANGLING MY CHOPSTICKS: A CULINARY SOJOURN IN KYOTO
Boston Globe, September 21, 2003
>AFLOAT FOR A LONG HAUL: MASTERING THE YENISEY: a review of Lost In
Mongolia: Rafting the World's Last Unchallenged River
Literary Review of Canada:
>> "Milosevic in Paris” (review of poetry book The Killed
by Douglas Burnet Smith), September, 2001
>> Marlboro Review:
“The Way Back” (review
of book by Wyn Cooper), Winter/Spring 2001
Poets and Writers:
>> “A
Global Book Club's Traveling Titles”
The Chronicle of Higher Education: The Chronicle Review, February 21,
2003
>> Expat Literary Publishing in Paris Today
Poets & Writers, DIRECT QUOTE
>>"DAVE SMITH ON HIS TWELVE YEARS OF EDITING THE SOUTHERN REVIEW"
Poets & Writers, postmark
7.19.02
>> SHARON OLDS AT THE WORKSHOP: POSTCARD FROM PARIS
Poets & Writers, postmark
2.1.02
>>MARGARET ATWOOD'S ATTENTION TO DETAIL: POSTCARD FROM PARIS
Poets & Writers, postmark
3.22.02
>>JOURNÉE MAVIS GALLANT: POSTCARD FROM PARIS
Poets & Writers, postmark 5.31.02
>>W.S. MERWIN AT THE VILLAGE VOICE: POSTCARD FROM PARIS
Poets & Writers, postmark
10.12.01
>>CAROLYN KIZER CRACKS HER WIT: POSTCARD FROM PARIS
Poets and Writers, postmark 11.2.01
>> “So much depends
upon a new bookstore: Postcard from Paris”
Paris Notes, May 2002
>>"In the Red: A new English-language bookstore defies market trends"