I first encountered zydeco on a visit to New Orleans. I was enthralled by the banging beats of Buckwheat Zydeco. The Cajun music I had heard previously in NOLA was good enough, but I could take it sitting down. Zydeco demanded that I get up and dance. Zydeco combines the energy of rock and roll […]
“Creole Soul: Zydeco Lives” by Burt Feintuch and edited by Jeannie Banks Thomas
November 15, 2022 by Leave a Comment
“Relative Distance” by David Pruitt
November 15, 2022 by Leave a Comment
Reviewed by Faith Eidse A barbaric father forces three sons to travel the long road to normalcy in David Pruitt’s sibling memoir, Relative Distance. The story opens on a moment when all three sons are, separately, homeless. They’ve been rejected by a brutal father and abandoned by a mentally-ill mother. Told in first person, present […]
Philip Zozzaro
November 15, 2022 by 1 Comment
Philip Zozzaro is an avid book reader who has been reviewing books since March 2015. He writes for various publications, such as the San Francisco Book Review, Booklist Magazine, and US Book Review. He maintains his own blog as well (https://wordpress.com/view/vicfoster.home.blog). His favorite genres are biography, history, true crime, and mysteries. While book reviewing is […]
Faith Eidse
November 15, 2022 by Leave a Comment
Faith Eidse, PhD, recently signed a Masthof Press publishing contract for her Kingsbury award-winning memoir, Deeper than African Soil, of surviving revolution, disease, and boarding school trauma while growing up among worlds in Congo, Canada and the U.S. She has published five fiction and non-fiction titles, including Florida’s oral history of 2007, Voices of the […]
The Hamilton Stone Review
November 14, 2022 by Leave a Comment
Current issue no. 47, Fall 2022 Poetry: Ralph Burns, Michael Hettich, Erin Wilson, Beckian Fritz Goldberg, Kelsey Phillis, aggie Kennedy, Claire Scott, L. Henry Farrell, Jen Karetnick, Richard Weaver, Kathleen Hellen, Barry Seiler, Toti O’Brien, Jeff Newberry, Cortney Davis, Jan Ball, Tony Beyer, Jo Angela Edwins, L. Annette Binder, J.R. Solonche, and Lynn Gilbert. Prose: […]
November Read of the Month: “Milk Blood Heat” by Dantiel W. Muniz
November 3, 2022 by Leave a Comment
In Milk Blood Heat (Grove Press, 2021) Dantiel W. Muniz serves up a savory, delicious stew of short stories in an outstanding debut collection. The stories are set in the steamy cities and suburbs of Florida centered on Black residents and their communities. Female voices and themes predominate. This collection is a rare gem in […]