Reviewed by Meredith Sue Willis Foote: A Mystery Novel (West Virginia University Press, 2022), described as a cryptid murder mystery, shares some qualities with a cozy. But unlike a typical cozy with an amateur sleuth in an English village, the narrator here, Big Jim Foote, is a professional if somewhat desultory private investigator, whose real […]
Meredith Sue Willis
November 2, 2022 by Leave a Comment
Meredith Sue Willis grew up in a West Virginia family of teachers. She has published twenty-two books, and her novels and stories are considered part of the Appalachian Renaissance. She also writes science fiction, young adult, books for children, and books about how-to-write and how-to-teach-writing. She teaches novel writing at New York University’s School of […]
Books in Brief
November 1, 2022 by Leave a Comment
Summer might be over—at least according to the calendar—but when there remain so many grand books to devour, the end of the season is no reason to stop your so-called summer reading. Here are some top choice books, ranging from the tender literary fiction of “Dear DeeDee” to the edge-of-your-seat thriller, “The Letter Keeper,” and […]
The Pat Conroy Residency
November 1, 2022 by Leave a Comment
The Pat Conroy Residency is accepting applications until December 14, 2022. The nonprofit Pat Conroy Literary Center offers a Writer’s Residency twice annually—typically in early March and early November, conjoined to our March Forth program and our Pat Conroy Literary Festival respectively. The residency is available to writers of all genres, published or unpublished, unless otherwise noted in the specific call […]
Kentucky Book Festival
October 27, 2022 by Leave a Comment
The 41st annual Kentucky Book Festival will return to Joseph-Beth Booksellers in Lexington on October 29, 2022. For details, see their website.
“how small, confronting morning” by Lola Haskins
October 19, 2022 by Leave a Comment
Poet Lola Haskins’s enthusiasm for her adopted state of Florida is expressed with grace, power, and beauty in how small, confronting morning (Jacar Press 2016; released as ebook 2021), a collection of thirty-five poems. The words and images captured in the book quietly yet passionately evoke a wild and natural Florida that is being lost […]