Short Attention Span Required   Issue #36

Capping off at six sentences, this lit blog keeps it short and sweet

By Jen Girdish

In It Still Moves, music writer Amanda Petrusich seeks out Americana the beautiful

By Eryn Loeb

What your coffee-table book says about you

By Aynsley Karps

Take a trip with the GOP

Party Favors provides a fascinating view into the private world of Republican fundraisers by a veteran insider

By Melissa Silvestri

The KKK took my mommy away

Stephanie Kuehnert’s debut is steeped in punk worship, pubescent sweat, and good old-fashioned soul-searching

By Robyn Detterline

Laurie Notaro’s latest stab at self-depreciating humor has its ups and downs

By Lindsey Anderson

Fit for a queen: Author Stephanie Kuehnert wants you to be a rock goddess

By Kathleen Keish

Goodbye 20th Century: A Biography of Sonic Youth

Music critic David Browne’s bio demystifies an influential band — sans sensationalist gossip

By Arianna Stern

Millions of sane adults clamor to be Engulfed in Flames

David Sedaris brings more of the same ... and we couldn’t be happier

By Dana Stewart

Independent, female-run presses are getting the word out

By Claire Donato

Fucking Daphne shows performance poet Daphne Gottlieb in full control

By Donna Blumenfeld

Nina Revoyr   Issue #36

The author of Age of Dreaming talks about overcoming racism, fighting her writing demons, and why she loves LA

By Kate Rockwood

The Age of Dreaming   Issue #36

by Nina Revoyr (Akashic, 320 pages, $15.99)

By Adam Schragin

What Was Lost   Issue #36

by Catherine O'Flynn (Henry Holt, 256 pages, $14)

By Guy Patrick Cunningham

Mad Lit: Hannah Tinti   Issue #36

The One Story editor dissects her decades-old fascination with Jane Eyre

By Leah DeVun

Jennifer Stevenson   Issue #36

The author of Trash Sex Magic switches the lit market for the mainstream with an eye-boggling fantasy romance trilogy. Here, she shows us a little leg on the politics of writing romance.

By Ling Ma

Lynda Barry   Issue #36

The artist extraordinaire pencils us to chat about how eBay saved her career, her newest book What It Is, and one memorable crying jag over Easter

By Mairead Case

Jancee Dunn   Issue #36

The rock journalist-turned-novelist waxes on the charms of her folks’ bran obsession, why writing a novel is easier than working on deadline, and what she wants to be when she grows old. We take notes.

By Kate Rockwood

Sing Me Back Home tells why country music matters — in personal and historical terms

By Eryn Loeb

Self-searching to the ends of Unaccustomed Earth

By Kate Rockwood

Amos ink

Toriphiles await summer release of musician's comic book

By Daniela Garcia

Bokonon and on and on

In Last Last Chance, Fiona Maazel seems afraid this may be her only chance to disseminate her ideas to an audience

By Robyn Detterline

Cookie’s Fortune: How Chinese food became distinctly American

Jennifer 8. Lee’s The Fortune Cookie Chronicles: Adventures in the World of Chinese Food traces chop suey’s treacherous journey to your plate

By Alexa Weibel

A political fable told by the ruler’s servants

In Blood Kin, never has the second-wave feminist maxim seemed so true: The personal is political

By Donna Blumenfeld

Manic managing

Terri Cheney talks about coming to terms with manic depression and how it’s affected her life

By Lisa Murphy

Emily Becker loves Sigg bottles

By Emily Becker

To infinity and beyond!

Nick and Norah’s Infinite Playlist goes on forever and ever and ever…

By Kathleen Keish

Rock the Runway Recap

By Venus Zine Staff

The Greatest Female Guitarists of All Time, H–M   Issue #35

By Venus Zine Staff

Austin City Limits, Day 1: Jenny Lewis sweats it out

September 26, 2008, at Zilker Park

By Erik Adams

The Greatest Female Guitarists of All Time, A–G   Issue #35

By Venus Zine Staff