Outrunning the Villagers Carrying Torches and Pitchforks: A Review of Mongrels by Stephen Graham Jones

May 18, 2016 · by Christina Kaylor | in Book Reviews | tagged American Underclass, Bildungsroman, Dorothea Lange, Fantasy Fiction, Genre Fiction, High Concept Fiction, Lycanthropy, Mongrels Stephen Graham Jones, Search for Self, Werewolf | 5 Comments

Do you consider a rare steak overcooked? Does a full moon make you want to rip off your clothes and howl? Is lycanthropy your favorite four-syllable word? Are An American Werewolf in London and its sequel …in Paris your go-to date movies? If so, you might be a werewolf wannabe, but you’re not the real […]

Welcome to Braggsville: Old Times There Are Not Forgotten

March 4, 2015 · by Christina Kaylor | in Book Reviews | tagged "41 Shots", Bildungsroman, Black History Month, Civil War re-enactments, Comic relief in works of serious literature, Dramatic Irony, Outsider characters challenge the status quo, Performative Intervention, satire, T. Geronimo Johnson, The Hero's Journey, unreliable narrator, Welcome to Braggsville | 12 Comments

For years, Uncle Charles had rhapsodized about our Snell family roots in tiny Oconee, Georgia, stop #14 on the Central of Georgia Railroad between Macon and Savannah. Oconee (population 280) is the heart of Georgia and site of the Civil War Battle of Ball’s Ferry at the Oconee River Bridge. When I decided I wanted […]