http://dir.salon.com/topics/greg_villepique/?source=rss&aim=greg_villepique en-us Copyright 2007 Salon.com. Wed, 13 Dec 2000 12:12:00 PST By Greg Villepique Wed, 13 Dec 2000 12:12:00 PST http://www.salon.com/books/review/2000/12/13/taylor/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/books/review/2000/12/13/taylor/index.html?source=rss A look at eunuchs through the ages offers a provocative take on what it means to be a man. By Greg Villepique Wed, 13 Dec 2000 12:12:00 PST http://www.salon.com/books/review/2000/10/12/galeano/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/books/review/2000/10/12/galeano/index.html?source=rss The author of "Memory of Fire" delivers a scathing, mischievous indictment of North America's hypocrisy and consumer culture. By Greg Villepique Wed, 13 Dec 2000 12:12:00 PST http://www.salon.com/books/review/2000/08/31/sutin/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/books/review/2000/08/31/sutin/index.html?source=rss A biography of the spooky, sex- and drug-addled egomaniac who became an icon to generations of wannabe occultists. By Greg Villepique Wed, 13 Dec 2000 12:12:00 PST http://www.salon.com/books/review/2000/08/02/booth/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/books/review/2000/08/02/booth/index.html?source=rss The blood-soaked history of the Chinese secret societies that started the heroin trade and invented the "death by myriad swords." By Greg Villepique Wed, 13 Dec 2000 12:12:00 PST http://www.salon.com/books/review/2000/07/13/wearne/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/books/review/2000/07/13/wearne/index.html?source=rss Read the hair-raising details of how and why man-made structures come tumbling to earth! By Greg Villepique Wed, 13 Dec 2000 12:12:00 PST http://www.salon.com/books/review/2000/06/29/atkinson/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/books/review/2000/06/29/atkinson/index.html?source=rss Stories proliferate in a giddy, madcap novel crammed with stoner students, crazy professors and long-kept family secrets. By Greg Villepique Wed, 13 Dec 2000 12:12:00 PST http://www.salon.com/people/bc/2000/06/13/corman/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/people/bc/2000/06/13/corman/index.html?source=rss The King of B movies became an industry giant by keeping budgets lean, and his films rich with breasts, bikers and blood. By Greg Villepique Wed, 13 Dec 2000 12:12:00 PST http://www.salon.com/books/review/2000/06/09/sedaris/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/books/review/2000/06/09/sedaris/index.html?source=rss In another sidesplitting collection, the author writes about his foulmouthed brother, his hopeless French and his brief career as a speed-freak performance artist. By Greg Villepique Wed, 13 Dec 2000 12:12:00 PST http://www.salon.com/books/review/2000/04/26/harris/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/books/review/2000/04/26/harris/index.html?source=rss With the malice of a gifted comic, an angry author argues that our "personal" tastes are something we were sold by advertising. By Greg Villepique Wed, 13 Dec 2000 12:12:00 PST http://www.salon.com/books/review/2000/02/22/gollaher/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/books/review/2000/02/22/gollaher/index.html?source=rss A physician argues the case against lopping it off. By Greg Villepique Wed, 13 Dec 2000 12:12:00 PST http://www.salon.com/people/bc/2000/01/25/bowie/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/people/bc/2000/01/25/bowie/index.html?source=rss As the master of self-reinvention -- from Ziggy Stardust to the Thin White Duke to Normal David -- he became the most influential rock star of the post-Beatles era. By Greg Villepique Wed, 13 Dec 2000 12:12:00 PST http://www.salon.com/books/review/1999/11/12/epstein/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/books/review/1999/11/12/epstein/index.html?source=rss A top-notch biography celebrates the jazz piano genius who gained his greatest fame as a pop singer. By Greg Villepique Wed, 13 Dec 2000 12:12:00 PST http://www.salon.com/people/bc/1999/11/09/smith/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/people/bc/1999/11/09/smith/index.html?source=rss A punk icon in jeans and leather jacket, she added ecstasy and spiritual exaltation to the poet-songwriter equation. By Greg Villepique Wed, 13 Dec 2000 12:12:00 PST http://www.salon.com/books/review/1999/08/31/scherman/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/books/review/1999/08/31/scherman/index.html?source=rss An account of one of rock 'n' roll's legendary drummers doesn't go deep enough. By Greg Villepique Wed, 13 Dec 2000 12:12:00 PST http://www.salon.com/books/review/1999/08/06/caldwell/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/books/review/1999/08/06/caldwell/index.html?source=rss How can a writer investigate manners when his definition of manners includes everything we do? By Greg Villepique Wed, 13 Dec 2000 12:12:00 PST http://www.salon.com/books/review/1999/06/22/wood/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/books/review/1999/06/22/wood/index.html?source=rss The hopelessly inept transvestite filmmaker was also, it turns out, a hopelessly inept transvestite novelist.