Two California grad students get quite an education in the 1960s South
…Volkswagen bug, with their reel-to-reel tape recorder, camera, typewriter, musical instruments, serious minds, and naïve notions about what awaited them. David Evans Nearly 60 years later, their encounters and observations…
Novelist Patricia L. Hudson brings Rebecca Boone, Daniel’s wife, to the fore
…cabin full of children to care for, nursing a newborn, living on acres that aren’t our own, and you traipsing off to fight a war. I’ll spend months not knowing…
The Hero of This Book ponders the story of a mother and daughter
…richly woven, character-driven narratives. Does this book even qualify as autofiction? Frankly, the writing is so captivating it doesn’t matter. Fact or fiction, a great story is a great story….
Adria Bernardi’s Benefit Street is a lyrical tale of exile
…Benefit Street portrays a vast number of characters driven out of an unnamed capital of an unnamed country. These are wives and husbands, mothers and fathers, children, grandmothers, neighbors and…
Buddy Emmons’ name was synonymous with the sound of his beloved steel guitar
…to George Strait, Ray Charles to the Everly Brothers. He was also an innovator, improving the mechanisms of the instrument and designing his “Emmons Original” model. As Fishell, a pedal…
Jami Attenberg reveals the writing life
…I had been young there, and that was enough.”); her father’s career as a traveling salesman (“If you can sell one thing,” he says, “you can sell anything.”); the sexual…
