Michelle Nijhuis, Grist.org. July 9, 2008. James Howard Kunstler's new novel describes a small town in upstate NY where a chain of global crises has forced the community to fend for itself.
Courtney E. Martin, AlterNet. February 21, 2008. Author Benjamin Percy discusses masculinity, fiction writing about Iraq, and how he got into writing to impress a girl.
Onnesha Roychoudhuri, AlterNet. September 20, 2007. The new novel from a veteran journalist and former Marine, captures a truth about Iraq that you won't get from reading the daily news. Here's an interview with him and an excerpt.
Anneli Rufus, AlterNet. January 27, 2007. Terrorism is now the stuff of fiction, as a glance at the best-seller lists will attest. But while Islamic plotters make the headlines, the terrorists we find on the bookshelves live in our own backyard.