Elizabeth Stuckey-French is the author of a novel, Mermaids on the Moon, a collection of short stories, The First Paper Girl in Red Oak, Iowa, and, with Janet Burroway, Writing Fiction: A Guide to the Narrative Craft. Her new novel, The Revenge of the Radioactive Lady, was released by Doubleday in spring 2011. She […]
Meet Elizabeth Stuckey-French: Author of July Read of the Month, Revenge of the The Radioactive Lady
July 2, 2011 by Leave a Comment
July Read of the Month: The Revenge of the Radioactive Lady, by Elizabeth Stuckey-French
July 1, 2011 by 1 Comment
Click to Buy The Revenge of the Radioactive Lady By Elizabeth Stuckey-French Reviewed by Donna Meredith Marylou is such an innocuous name, surely not the name of someone plotting a murder, especially since the Marylou in question is gray-haired and nearly eighty, a woman who becomes winded walking her dog around the block. But […]
A Dog Named Slugger, by Leigh Brill
June 22, 2011 by Leave a Comment
A Dog Named Slugger by Leigh Brill Reviewed by Paul H. Yarbrough Click to Buy “I have cerebral palsy. I walk funny and my balance is bad. I fall a lot. My hands shake, too. That means I’m not so good at carrying things. And if I drop stuff, sometimes it’s hard to just bend […]
The Chitlin’ Circuit and the Road to Rock ‘N’ Roll
June 18, 2011 by Leave a Comment
The Chitlin’ Circuit and the Road to Rock and Roll by Preston Lauterbach W. W. Norton & Company, July 2011 Reviewed by Adele Annesi Click to Buy Acclaimed journalist and editor Preston Lauterbach brings to vibrant life and lasting memory the black musicians, promoters, and media moguls of the late thirties and early forties […]
Meet River Jordan, Author of Praying for Strangers
June 15, 2011 by
River Jordan has made a name for herself as a fiction writer and playwright, never dreaming she’d share anything about her personal life to her readers. Now, she’s dared to reach beyond her comfort zone to pen a motivational memoir, Praying for Strangers. I wish I had read it prior to May, so that I could […]