Reviewed by Kelly Kolodny Educational, compelling, and deeply personal. These words describe Rachel Zemach’ poignant and beautifully written memoir, The Butterfly Cage: Joy, Heartache, and Corruption: Teaching While Deaf in a California Public School (Paper Angel Press 2023). In her book, Zemach chronicles her career as a Deaf teacher—work she portrays as joyful, intriguing, and at […]
“The Butterfly Cage: Joy, Heartache, and Corruption: Teaching While Deaf in a California Public School” by Rachel Zemach
October 23, 2024 by Leave a Comment
Dr. Kelly Kolodny
October 21, 2024 by Leave a Comment
Kelly Kolodny is a Professor of Education at Framingham State University in Massachusetts. Her books include Normalites: The First Professionally Prepared Teachers in the United States (2014) published with Information Age Publishing and Moments that Matter in the Learning and Development of Children: Reflections from Educators (2020) also published with Information Age Publishing. She co-authored with Mary-Lou […]
“Lake County” by Lori Roy
October 21, 2024 by Leave a Comment
Lake County by Edgar Award–winning author Lori Roy (Thomas & Mercer 2024) is a treasure of a historical mystery/thriller suspense novel. The story is well imagined, and charming, even with its violence. Exuberantly paced, it is a complicated work with a dash of noir and a righteous dose of historical Tampa, Florida. Many smaller stories […]
Louisiana Book Festival Nov. 2
October 20, 2024 by Leave a Comment
12:45 pm to 1:45 pm State Capitol, House Committee Room 2 Coming of Age: Exploring Otherness in Fiction with Dawn Major, Karen Spears Zacharias, Susan Beckham Zurenda, and moderator Mary McMyne 2:00 pm to 2:45 pm Cavalier House Books Tent Book Signing DAWN MAJOR 2024 GA Author of the Year Finalist for Best First Novel – The Bystanders Author Website: www.dawnmajor.com
“No Perfect Mothers” by Karen Spears Zacharias
October 15, 2024 by Leave a Comment
Karen Spears Zacharias’s novel No Perfect Mothers imagines the life of Carrie Buck, the plaintiff in the Supreme Court Case upholding the constitutionality of eugenics-inspired, forced sterilization. As Zacharias observes in the acknowledgments, “The book is important at this pivotal time as women seek to reclaim what the Supreme Court has once again taken from […]
Dawn Major interviews Raymond L. Atkins, A Southern Bard
October 15, 2024 by Leave a Comment
Introduction: I was an undergrad at Kennesaw State University when I attended my first poetry reading and had the pleasure of hearing Robert Pinsky read. I can’t recall if he had already served out his term as the U.S. Poet Laureate; Pinsky served as Poet Laureate for three consecutive years, so it may have been […]