This excerpt comes from Chapter One of Steven L. Parker’s novel, BS, published by Red Dirt Press of Shawnee, Oklahoma, released in June 2015. Parker serves as an Appellate Judge for the Southern Plains Region of the Bureau of Indian Affairs, and as District Judge for the Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma. A lawyer by trade, […]
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August Read of the Month: “Glimmerglass,” by Marly Youmans
August 6, 2015 by 1 Comment
Reviewed by Tara Mettler Marly Youmans’s novel Glimmerglass is a mash-up of the gothic romance, fairy tale, and late-in-life coming-of-age genres. We are taken to the village of Cooper Patent, a town peppered with odd characters and described by one of its villagers as “the most eccentric place I’ve ever lived.” Cynthia Sorrel, a middle-aged […]
Tara Mettler
August 4, 2015 by Leave a Comment
Tara Mettler is completing an MFA degree at Georgia College in Milledgeville, Georgia, focusing on poetry. She grew up in Illinois and has lived in Phoenix and St. Louis