Metro Weekly

All posts tagged "books"

  • Life Lines

    Photography by Todd Franson Three months ago, lying on a path alongside the George Washington Parkway with a broken arm, many thoughts were rushing through...

  • Page Turners

    Photography by Michael Wichita In the back of Sparky's coffee shop members of Boys and Books sit on folding chairs, bar stools, or crowded on...

  • Out of the Park

    Photos by Michael Wichita Billy Bean may be in the middle of a long and overscheduled book tour, with speaking engagement and signing parties crowding...

  • Man of The Hours

    Photography by Michael Wichita Michael Cunningham likes genre fiction -- spy stories, romances, thrillers, sci-fi. Stuff you'd buy in an airport along with a copy...

  • The Attractions of Bret Easton Ellis

    ''I think Roger Avery is an incredibly stylish director -- I'm really lucky to have gotten him to turn this book into a movie. ''...

  • Icy Terrain

    Photography by Michael Wichita Write what you know. It's the sage advice all aspiring novelists hear, and Brian Malloy took it to heart when creating...

  • Language of Love

    Irish author Jamie O'Neill flips intently through the pages of a book. Though it's his own novel, At Swim, Two Boys, and he knows every...

  • Blurring the Lines

    Way back in the late 1980s, a flurry of novels by young writers heralded what was seen by many as a new gay wave in...

  • By the Book

    E. Lynn Harris is late. Our interview was scheduled for noon, and as I look up at the clock in the elegant Park Hyatt Hotel...