Novel Summary: Meet Me at the Starlight (Bethany House Publishers 2024) spans three generations. In 1987, supermodel Harlow Hayes seeks solace in a quaint Florida beach town to heal from a heartbreak that shattered her entire world. To her surprise, she encounters Matt Knight—a Hollywood A-lister with a bad-boy reputation—who has returned to his hometown […]
“This Familiar Heart: An Improbable Love Story” by Babette Fraser Hale
September 17, 2024 by Leave a Comment
This Familiar Heart (Winedale Publishing 2024) is a moving and memorable love story about an unlikely couple whose feelings were impassioned and despite any initial hesitancy forged a loving bond that lasted decades. Author Babette Fraser Hale has written a captivating book that doesn’t confine itself to the love she shared with her late husband. […]
Geri Lipschultz
September 11, 2024 by Leave a Comment
Twice a Pushcart nominee, Geri Lipschultz has published in Terrain, The Rumpus, Ms., New York Times, the Toast, Black Warrior Review, College English, among others. Her work appears in Pearson’s Literature: Introduction to Reading and Writing and in Spuyten Duyvil’s The Wreckage of Reason II. She has an MFA from the University of Iowa and a Ph.D. from Ohio University and currently […]
“COMBEE: Harriet Tubman, the Combahee River Raid, and Black Freedom During the Civil War” by Edda Fields-Black
September 11, 2024 by Leave a Comment
It was Edda Fields-Black’s Op Ed in the NYTimes that led me to COMBEE: Harriet Tubman, the Combahee River Raid, and Black Freedom During the Civil War (Oxford University Press 2024). In the editorial, she describes how the newly digitized US Civil War Pension Files made it possible for African Americans to find information on their […]
“Ghostwriter: Shakespeare, Literary Landmines, and an Eccentric Patron’s Royal Obsession” by Lawrence Wells
September 10, 2024 by Leave a Comment
Lawrence Wells knows how to tell an entertaining story, and his latest, Ghostwriter: Shakespeare, Literary Landmines, and an Eccentric Patron’s Royal Obsession (University of Mississippi Press 2024), is a humdinger. The manuscript was awarded the 2014 Faulkner-Wisdom Prize for narrative nonfiction at the Words and Music Festival in New Orleans. Even readers who are not […]