July 16th, 2008
COMIC BOOK TATTOO, Various Artists | The Portland/Tori Amos/Sandman connection revealed.0 comments
July 9th, 2008
David Wroblewski, The Story of Edgar Sawtelle | It’s like Hamlet, but with puppies.1 comment
July 2nd, 2008
While They Slept, Kathryn Harrison | A triple murder hits close to home.1 comment
June 25th, 2008
Andre Dubus III, The Garden Of Last Days | A stripper, a big tipper and two towers.0 comments
June 18th, 2008
Sasa Stanisic, How The Soldier Repairs The Gramophone | What kids talk about when they talk about war.2 comments
June 18th, 2008
Joseph O’Neill Netherland | A new novel set in post-9/11 New York simply isn’t cricket (it’s Seinfeld).0 comments
June 11th, 2008
Betty Roberts, With Grit And By Grace | A woman on top, for all the right reasons.0 comments
June 4th, 2008
Tim Weiner, Legacy of Ashes | Finally, some valuable intelligence on the agency that was supposed to have provided it for us.0 comments
May 28th, 2008
Brendan Mullen, Live At The Masque | The burn-hot, burn-fast punk life, while it lasted.0 comments
May 21st, 2008
Adam Leith Gollner, The Fruit Hunters1 comment
 Sex-crazed theater people. |
[April 23rd, 2008]
The sequel to Portlander Acito’s 2004 coming-of-gay comedy How I Paid for College (Broadway, 356 pages, $12.95) finds its self-obsessed protagonist, Edward Zanni, kicked out of Juilliard, working as a “party motivator” at ritzy bar mitzvahs and moonlighting as a corporate spy for a jaw-droppingly sexy stockbroker of questionable ethics. As before, Eddie bumbles his way through each new bizarre affair, motivated in part by his love of the stage but mostly by adolescent lust. It’s featherweight dick lit, but the novel is readable thanks to Acito’s clever skewering of pop culture and the theater world alike. Acito has earned a lucrative audience of the sort of people who devour first-person romantic comedies, but his real talents are in satire.
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