Summary: The Silent Women is an extraordinary novel inspired by the real women of Oak Ridge, Tennessee—the Manhattan Project’s “Secret City”—where thousands kept the deadliest secret of World War II. Oklahoma, 1935. Black Sunday. From the moment a wall of black dust devours the plains and buries her world, Song Holloway’s life is marked by […]
Dawn Major Interview Frederick Barthelme Author of “Sun Deluxe: New and Collected Stories”
October 15, 2026 by Leave a Comment
Sun Deluxe by Frederick Barthelme is an absolute smorgasbord; it’s your favorite characters in your favorite settings doing your favorite things. If your love language is awkward professors, annoying neighbors, recent divorcees, bad-boy boyfriends, throw-caution-to-the-wind teenagers, grossly neglectful parents, and the unfailing drunk at the New Year’s Eve Party, this collection is for you. Set […]
Dawn Major interviews Nancy J. Allen, author of “A Method of Reaching Extreme Altitudes and Other Stories”
September 20, 2026 by Leave a Comment
Award-winning author, Nancy J. Allen’s A Method of Reaching Extreme Altitudes is a collection of twelve stories that explores those pivotal moments in time where everything shifts. Across the collection, her characters’ decisions—sometimes impulsive, sometimes seemingly inconsequential—cause a butterfly effect that alters the trajectory of their lives. Set in the Southwest, Allen’s honors the enduring […]
Donna Meredith interviews Bruce Ballister, author of “Next of Kin” and “Traffick”
September 14, 2026 by Leave a Comment
Summary: Human trafficking for the sex trade is the issue at the heart of the first two Jason Saylor action-packed mysteries. In the first book, which was recently reissued as Next of Kin, Jason returns to his hometown on the northern coast of Florida. He’s been involuntarily furloughed from a successful career in investigative journalism, a […]
Elizabeth Broadbent interviews Del Sandeen, author of “This Cursed House”
September 1, 2026 by Leave a Comment
Del Sandeen’s This Cursed House (Berkley 2024) begins in 1962, Jemma Barker escapes her life in Chicago with a job offer from the well-to-do Duchon family in New Orleans. Pale enough to pass for white, the Black Duchons look down on darker-skinned Jemma, and the job she came to do doesn’t seem to exist. As […]