Click here for a review of Apples and Ashes. Click image below to purchase this book. Thank you, Dr. Hutchison, for doing this interview, and congratulations on the publication of this fine book, Apples and Ashes. You address this question at length in your book, but I’ll ask the question anyway for the benefit of […]
Patricia O’Sullivan Interviews Charity Hawkins
May 4, 2012 by Leave a Comment
PO: Why did you decide to homeschool your children? CH: My story is a lot like Julianne’s in the book. We knew a lot of people who homeschooled, and my husband liked the idea. He’s a very quiet, non-opinionated person, but he had an opinion about this! So, I figured I’d try it for a […]
Bill Lavender Interviews Moira Crone about her Book “The Not Yet”
April 26, 2012 by Leave a Comment
BILL LAVENDER: What does the book have and have not to do with New Orleans? MOIRA CRONE: When I first started writing the book in the 1990’s, I set it in New Orleans because I live here, and because it began with a dream that was set here—a strange dream of a young man sitting in […]
Shelby Foote
April 23, 2012 by Leave a Comment
Author profile by Meredith Edwards Shelby Dade Foote, Jr. was an American historian and novelist. His most famous work is The Civil War: A Narrative, a three-volume history of the war published over the course of two decades. His history was characterized by a literary style, and included Shakespearean metaphors and colloquialisms. He understood facts […]
Rhett DeVane Interviews Lynne Bryant, Author of “Alligator Lake”
April 5, 2012 by Leave a Comment
RD: You choose to show both the good and bad sides of life in the Deep South. How do you find this balance in your fiction? Do you feel as if your novels make any statements about the South? LB: For every racist or bigoted person I’ve ever encountered, I’ve met an open-minded, loving […]
Donna Meredith Interviews Philip Gerard
January 24, 2012 by Leave a Comment
How did you choose “The Patron Saint of Dreams” to be your title piece for the collection? PG: That essay tells the story of my mother’s death — and my inability to write about her illness and death for a long time. Then one night I dreamed of her — and this dream was a […]