What Is the What writes: "Over the course of many years, Dave and I have collaborated to tell my story... I told [him] what I knew and what I could remember, and from that material he created this work of art." The book is typical of Eggers' style: blending non-fictional and fictional elements into a non-fiction novel or memoir. By classifying the book a novel, Eggers says, he freed himself to re-create conversations, streamline complex relationships, add relevant detail and manipulate time and space in helpful ways—all while maintaining the essential truthfulness of the storytelling. However, not all critics were impressed. Lee Siegel sees
What Fresh Hell Is This? What Fresh Hell Is This? What Fresh Hell is This? is the fourth studio album by Art Bergmann, released in 1995 on Epic Records. The album gets its name from a quotation by American wit Dorothy Parker. The album was written primarily while Bergmann was in rehab, recovering from his prior battles with drug addiction. In its year end poll of its newspapers' music critics, Southam Newspapers named the album as one of the ten best albums of 1995, with "London Free Press" critic Ian Gillespie lauding Bergmann as "a Canadian rock genius, doomed to hover around the edges of