Review by Philip K. Jason The publication of a new Dave Robicheaux novel is always a cause for celebration. This classic detective series is perhaps the best case to be made that no real distinction need exist between genre writing and literary writing. With The Glass Rainbow, the 18thRobicheaux installment, James Lee Burke is at […]
Archives for August 2010
Don’t Miss Creative Nonfiction Writers Conference & Workshops
August 20, 2010 by 1 Comment
The Oxford Creative Nonfiction Writers Conference & Workshops November 11-14, 2010 • Oxford, Mississippi Lee Gutkind • Robert Goolrick • Dinty W. Moore • Beth Ann Fennelly • Kristen Iversen Mike Rosenwald • David Magee • Jeff Kleinman • Gillian MacKenzie • Tom French Stella Connell • John T. Edge • Neil White • Margaret […]
Carolina Mountains Literary Festival
August 19, 2010 by Leave a Comment
The 5th annual Carolina Mountains Literary Festival September 10-11, 2010 For the 5th year, the small town of Burnsville, North Carolina opens its doors to more than thirty authors and hundreds of book lovers during the Carolina Mountains Literary Festival. The festival’s theme “Coming Home” guides the selection of participating authors. Programming includes a seventeen-county […]
Loyola Commemorates 30th Anniversary of A Confederacy of Dunces
August 17, 2010 by Leave a Comment
The 30th anniversary of John Kennedy Toole’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, A Confederacy of Dunces, will be celebrated at Loyola University New Orleans during Wolfpack Welcome Aug. 23-27, the week of orientation for new students. Loyola’s ties to the novel go back to the days when it was an unpublished work. While teaching in the English […]
Meet Suzanne Supplee, Author of Somebody Everybody Listens To
August 16, 2010 by 1 Comment
Suzanne Supplee was first recognized as a talented children’s author with her works Artichoke’s Heart and When Irish Guys are Smiling. When Dolly Parton read Supplee’s latest young adult novel, Somebody Everybody Listens To, she said, “Reading about Retta Lee Jones’s journey to Nashville was a lot like reading my own diary, except she had […]
Somebody Everybody Listens To, by Suzanne Supplee
August 15, 2010 by Leave a Comment
Suzanne Supplee’s latest release, Somebody Everybody Listens To (Dutton, May, 2010), will inspire readers to pick up a guitar and sing. With a quick, steady pace, and short, cleanly-written chapters, this young adult novel will appeal to readers of all ages, particularly those who ever dreamed of finding success in the country music industry. Supplee’s […]