So we’ve got post-Arthurian Britain here, with the Britons and the Saxons occupying the land in an uneasy truce. We’ve got a collective failure of memory across society—no one, literally, can remember […]
If you believe that America’s infrastructure is in good shape, that the American middle class is thriving, that our nation supports our troops by providing them with top-notch care after they return […]
Poems that occasionally challenge readers…the “trigger warning” excuses can begin in 3…2…1…. A couple of things will become obvious quickly for readers of this review. The first is that the reviewer has […]
This novel will make one at least toy with the idea that Anne Bronte may have been the most talented of the Brontë sisters… When I wrote about Anne Bronte’s Agnes Grey […]
“…But thilke text heeld he nat worth an oyster….” – Geoffrey Chaucer Anyone who reads Eleanor Clark’s classic The Oysters of Locmariaquer will come away from the book convinced of two things: 1) cultivating oysters […]
Once upon a time readers actually wanted to learn from books… After a spate of book reviews for new found writer friends, this essay takes a look at a book from the 2014 […]
C.D. Mitchell understands the “Dirty South” better than many who trumpet their knowledge of it… In my recent essay on Richard Ford as an influence on my own writing I wrote about dirty […]
“We have to keep civilization alive somehow.” – Richard Ford, “Communist” Aspiring writers choose role models for all sorts of reasons. Sometimes, as with those who’d emulate Byron or Baudelaire, it’s the attraction […]
Sometimes heroism is an act of faith… The Honduran Plot by Horton Prather Horton Prather’s The Honduran Plot is a political thriller that violates many of the conventions of the genre. The hero, Jake […]
A cyclops and an odyssey reveal that life and coffee turn out to be better when richer and more exotic… Teresa Milbrodt writes in a genre that a fellow author calls “Midwestern […]
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