Comic Book & Graphic Novel Round-Up (2/8/12)

Each week, Paste reviews the most intriguing comic books, graphic novels, graphic memoirs and other illustrated books....  read more

Josh Ritter Working on New Album, Novel

Josh Ritter has a new full-length album and novel in the works, the songwriter told Paste. The yet-to-be-titled album will be a follow-up to 2010’s So Runs the World Away and will include songs that Ritter said are some of his most personal.  read more

Seldom Disappointed by Tony Hillerman

If you ever have the bounty of standing on the rim and looking down into the astounding beauty of the sacred Navajo landscape of Canyon de Chelly, you might possibly have a sudden urge to stay longer than you’d originally planned.  read more

DC Comics To Release Watchmen Prequels

The series, aptly entitled Before Watchmen, will follow the Watchmen as well as the Minutemen, the original super group. In addition to these stories will be separate, continuing story called Curse of the Crimson Sailor much like the original comic being intersected with The Tales of the Black Freighter.  read more

To Whom It May Concern, an Intimate Look at The Civil Wars

One of the best things about being a fan of Paste favorites The Civil Wars this past year has been following the duo’s rise through the eyes of rising star photographer Allister Ann. Filling the band’s tumblr, her black-and-white photographs are sometimes stark, sometimes wistful and sometimes whimsical, but they’re always intimate, full of wonder and beautifully composed. It’s hard to remember a band on the rise documented so extensively by someone so immensely talented. Now our experience of those photographs isn’t confined to the interwebs alone, as the photographer and the band release their book To Whom it May...  read more

Mr. Miner’s Phish Thoughts: An Anthology By A Fan For The Fans by David Calarco

Rather than a standard review of David Calarco’s new Phish anthology, author/poet/Phishhead Paul Siegell has given us a poem about a book about a band.  read more

Comic Book & Graphic Novel Round-Up (2/1/12)

Each week, Paste reviews the most intriguing comic books, graphic novels, graphic memoirs and other illustrated books....  read more

Are novels boring? In Defense of An Art Form

Even in an age when fiction must compete with blogs and Facebook and tweets and God knows whatever else is about to take over, novels continue to amaze and astound and entertain me, in all of their various forms and setting and styles. One of the latest styles, however, starts to worry me, posing questions about exactly what a novel is and whether it still excites a shrinking coterie of fiction readers.  read more

Comic Book & Graphic Novel Round-Up (1/25/12)

Each week, Paste reviews the most intriguing comic books, graphic novels, graphic memoirs and other illustrated books....  read more

Johnny Ramone’s Autobiography Set For April Release

After years of delays, Johnny Ramone’s memoir, _Commando: The Autobiography of Johnny Ramone_ will be released on April 2 by Abrams Image.   read more

Comic Book & Graphic Novel Round-Up (1/19/12)

Each week, Paste reviews the most intriguing comic books, graphic novels, graphic memoirs and other illustrated books....  read more

Reason, Faith, and Revolution: Reflections on the God Debate by Terry Eagleton

In Reason, Faith, and Revolution, Terry Eagleton calls God Is Not Great “stylish, entertaining, splendidly impassioned, [and] compulsively readable.” But he also shows how shallow Hitchens’s conception of religion is, and how feeble a straw man he set up for himself. (Eagleton includes Richard Dawkins’s The God Delusion and Daniel C. Dennett’s Breaking the Spell in his indictment; he refers to the whole crowd as Ditchkins for rhetorical purposes.)  read more

Comic Book & Graphic Novel Round-Up (1/11/12)

Each week, Paste reviews the most intriguing comic books, graphic novels, graphic memoirs and other illustrated books....  read more

The Visible Man by Chuck Klosterman

Ask the casual observer, “What is Chuck Klosterman’s main subject?” He’ll answer, “Pop Culture.” It’s hard to look Klosterman up on Google or Amazon without seeing the phrase “pop culture junkie” in various iterations. Understandable. Pop culture, however, is not the fundamental drive-shaft of the Klosterman engine. It may be the rims, the grill, the spoiler, the hydraulics, and sometimes even the steering wheel. But pop culture itself does not propel the Klostermobile, even when it fuels it.   read more

Elton John Signs Book Deal

All you "Tiny Dancer", "Rocket Man", "Levon" enthusiast - Elton John has a new medium for you. The New York Times has reported Elton John has signed a book deal. Titled _Love is the Cure: Ending the Global Aids Epidemic_, the book will cover John’s personal accounts of the AIDS crisis.   read more

Comic Book & Graphic Novel Round-Up (1/4/12)

Each week, Paste reviews the most intriguing comic books, graphic novels, graphic memoirs and other illustrated books....  read more

James Franco To Publish A Novel Based On His Career

We already know James Franco is quite the multitasker. The actor has written a collection of short stories, hosted the Academy Awards, attended multiple universities at the same time (and taught a few courses) and now he can publishing a full length novel to that list.  read more

The Bippolo Seed and Other Lost Stories by Dr. Seuss

Whenever a great author dies, loyal fans begin holding their breath. They hope that one day, perhaps soon, a final work will emerge from the artist’s private collection and sail into the marketplace for one last hoorah. Could there be a previously unpublished manuscript, caked in dust, lying at the bottom of a desk drawer? A character sketch locked away on the author’s hard drive that might thrill us once more?  read more

Comic Book & Graphic Novel Round-Up (12/28/11)

Each week, Paste reviews the most intriguing comic books, graphic novels, graphic memoirs and other illustrated books....  read more

DC's All-Star Western #4: Exclusive Comic Preview

Well before Batman, notorious bounty hunter Jonah Hex tussled with evil in Gotham. Paste has an exclusive four-page preview of DC's All-Star Western #4, which continues the tale next Wednesday.  read more