Mikael Wood takes a looksee at my book.

Beaujon locates no easy answers. But the complexity and ambivalence he uncovers among the community’s central figures is refreshing, especially in an age increasingly defined by rampant religious fanaticism.

Rivet’s Andrea Benvenuto does not like the way I wrote about myself in the book. Fair enough.

A nice review by Miles Raymer in last week’s edition, with a thought-provoking kicker:

Stephen Prothero, in his American Jesus: How the Son of God Became a National Icon, points out that much of Christianity’s success in the U.S. comes from the American ability to mold Jesus into a customized savior for every believer’s need. This isn’t new: 30 years ago the Jesus people just refashioned JC as the grooviest hippie of them all. The kids of the culture wars—caught between an increasingly fundamentalist culture and an ever-more-pressing material one—need more than just a Christ they can get crunk for. They need a Jesus who’s pro-life and antigay, who can sell video games—and T-shirts too.

A bullet-pointed review from The New York Post yesterday.

Reviews Body Piercing Saved My Life today.

Pitchfork’s Zach Baron takes a whack at my book.

Tonight I’ll be a guest on the Mimi Geerges Show on XM. I believe you can listen to it online. Or, if you live in Richmond, Va., you can check it out Monday at 1 p.m. on WRIR.

UPDATE: The show isn’t broadcast live. You can figure out when to hear it here, and it’ll be on the website as well.

The family-friendly folks at Infodad.com reviewed my book. A fair review, but I would not suggest going toe-to-toe with me on who vs. whom.

James Stewart, a fine gentleman whom I really enjoyed meeting in Grand Rapids, reprises a blog post about my book for Catapult magazine. He quite rightly takes me to task for errors of detail (which I’ve tried to catalog here), but I’m not sure what he means about errors from the Festival of Faith and Music. I stand by my notes on that one, though I’ll happily correct anything I’m wrong about.

About me not understanding the language of David Dark: I’m not an academic, and while I consider it my job to learn to parse things I don’t understand (exhibit a: a book I wrote about Christian rock), I couldn’t make heads nor tails of the man’s speech. I encourage anyone interested, though, to download and listen to one of his talks and let me know if I’m just a dope. (I’m at work and don’t have my notes here, so I don’t know whether this was one of his keynotes or a workshop.) I also highly recommend the Stockman talk.

Laura Barcella interviewed me for Nerve.com. I love that she called David Bazan “super emo.” He is going to LOVE that. Incidentally, Bazan’s playing here in Washington, D.C., on Friday. He’s dropped the Pedro the Lion name and has “gone solo.”