Freshly Baked Books: The Pocket Wife

February 25, 2015 · by Brenda Lloyd | in Book Reviews | tagged Atlanta Writers Club, bipolar disorder, crime fiction, debut fiction, legal thriller, Pablo Neruda, Susan Crawford, The Pocket Wife, unreliable narrator | 5 Comments

The Pocket Wife is Dana Catrell, who feels she is slowly going crazy. Celia, Dana’s friend and neighbor, has been murdered, and Dana suspects that she is the killer. Published by HarperCollins and launching on March 17, The Pocket Wife is Susan Crawford’s first novel, and it’s a humdinger. It follows the stories of Dana […]

Fishing – And Other Things I Had to Learn

February 18, 2015 · by Ann J Temkin | in The Writing Life | tagged Christian Jews in History, Discrimination against Jews in America, Fishing in the Gospels, How Jesus became a Gentile, Jewish Jesus, Palestine 1st century, Sight in the Sandstorm, The Jewish Jesus, The Language of the New Testamant, The Roman Empire and Jesus' time, The Second Jewish Temple, The Writing Life | 7 Comments

“How long did it take you to write your book?” David asked, holding out his copy for me to sign. “Two years to write, but at least a decade of research,” I probably answered. That’s what I usually say, but it’s only part of the truth. Sight In The Sandstorm: Jesus in His World and […]

Walt Whitman Discovery in Washington, DC

February 11, 2015 · by Susan Diffenderfer | in Field Trips, Poets/ Poetry/ Performances | tagged "The Wound Dresser" and memorial at Dupont Station, "The Wound Dresser" by Walt Whitman, Civil War Hospitals and Medical Care, Dupont Circle in Washington DC, Leaves of Grass editions, The AIDS Crisis, Walt Whitman and Homosexuality, Walt Whitman and Ralph Waldo Emerson, Walt Whitman and The Civil War, Walt Whitman as Cargiver during the Civil War | 20 Comments

I have never been one to read a lot of poetry—love to read almost anything, including cereal boxes but was not drawn to verse. That changed somewhat last October when I was visiting Washington, DC with a friend, and we saw a long, chiseled inscription in the curving granite wall surrounding our Metro station at Dupont […]

One Thousand Scheherazades and Folktales Three Ways

February 4, 2015 · by Stephanie Knapp | in Book Reviews, Storytelling | tagged Alcee Fortier, Animal Tales, Black History Month, Compair Lapin & Bre'r Rabbit, Desegregation in New Orleans, Elizabeth Catlett, Folk Art vs. Academy Art, Laura Plantation, Louisiana folklore, Original versions of fairytales & folktlaes, The Negritude Movement, translated literature | 10 Comments

Alcée Fortier doesn’t get it. He’s spent decades listening, absorbing, and translating a vast collection of stories recounted by the humans living in and around the great estate of Le Petit Versailles built by his grandfather – the first to refine sugar in Louisiana – Valcour Aimé. It is a strange fact that the old […]