Lollipop Magazine

Hail Babylon! – Andrei Codrescu – Review

April 1, 1999

Disappointed in his search for The New World, he finds instead a land laden with the crass mechanical plumbing of commercialism.

Blood of Mugwump – Doug Rice – Review

April 1, 1999

Legend and confusion serenade the mystery of the day when an entire roomful of students were consumed by the Earth after a reading of the book.

A Child’s Night Dream – Oliver Stone – Review

April 1, 1999

Thirty years ago, Oliver Stone was a young Yalie malcontent, drunk on Kerouac and dodging shrapnel on Saigon battlefields.

The Everlasting Story of Nory – Review

January 1, 1999

In conjuring Nory, Baker has tapped the hope of childhood dreaming, with the remembrances of a time when the world was new and light on its feet.

The Captain Is Out To Lunch – Review

January 1, 1999

Posthumously published diaries document the period between August 1991 and February 1993, Bukowski’s voice leading a screaming charge from beyond the grave.

Paradise Burning – Review

January 1, 1999

Borrowing Rimbaud’s anvil of hope, he crowns The Uglies with the cap of Revolution, then turns on his heels, cool-style, and marches back up the Glory Hill.

Gentleman Junkie – Review

January 1, 1999

Smell this book. Mmm-mmm. Sixty-four varieties, pure aromatic.

Modigliani – Review

January 1, 1999

As he had done previously with Blues for Bird, his biography of Charlie Parker, Gray presents Modigliani’s life in the narrative style of an epic poem.

The Ultimate Rush – Review

November 1, 1998

Yesireeee, Chet adores speed, genuflecting to its power with the passion of a weightless angel.

The Diving Bell and the Butterfly – Review

November 1, 1998

Bauby, who suffered the stroke in December of 1995, dictated these memoirs by blinking his one good eye at an alphabet screen on the wall of his hospital room.