Claire Hamner Matturro reviews “No Names to Be Given” and interviews the author Julia Brewer Daily

THE BOOK Julia Brewer Daily’s, novel, No Names to Be Given (Admission Press, 2021) is an evocative and sensitive novel about three young women from vastly different backgrounds who face unwed pregnancies in the 1960’s Deep South. Sandy, Faith, and Becca become roommates in a New Orleans maternity home hospital for unwed mothers and gradually […]

Allen Mendenhall interview Joe Lee, author of “Resting Place”

       

Dawn Major interviews Michelle Dotter, editor-in-chief of Dzanc Books

I became acquainted with Michelle Dotter, editor-in-chief of Dzanc Books, through the Team Gay—a group of scholars, artists, writers, and enthusiasts who have been working on publishing William Gay’s posthumous books. It was a real honor working with Michelle. The team absolutely bombarded her with emails debating what some might think to be trivial points—why […]

Allen Mendenhall interviews Adele Holmes, author of “Winter’s Reckoning”

Allen Mendenhall Interviews Susan Cushman, Author of “Pilgrim Interrupted”

Allen Mendenhall Interviews Heath Dollar, Author of “Old Country Fiddle”