AM: Thanks, Wendy, for the interview. Our readers are no doubt familiar with your Ten Beach Road series. Best Beach Ever is the sixth and latest novel in that series, which began in 2011. How do you stay so productive? WW: Thank you, Allen. As counterintuitive as it sounds, I think motherhood helped me become […]
Allen Mendenhall Interviews Shuly Cawood, Author of “The Going and Goodbye”
December 12, 2017 by 1 Comment
AM: Shuly, thanks for this interview about your memoir, The Going and Goodbye. I want to start by asking you about the epigraph by Richard Wilbur, in part because he passed away just about the time your book was released. I find that intriguing because you quote him on the subject of life and death, […]
October Read of the Month: “Of Bees and Boys,” by Allen Mendenhall
October 3, 2017 by 1 Comment
Reviewed by Yasser El-Sayed Much has already been written about Allen Mendenhall’s new book, Of Bees & Boys: Lines from a Southern Lawyer. The celebrated author William Bernhardt, who penned the forward to the collection of essays, states that “Mendenhall is an artist and writer of the first caliber . . . Time and again […]
Allen Mendenhall Interviews Dan Leach, Author of “Floods and Fires”
September 7, 2017 by Leave a Comment
AM: Congratulations on the publication of your collection of stories, Floods and Fires. We share a publisher—the University of North Georgia Press—as well as a connection to Greenville, South Carolina, where I went to school at Furman. You graduated from Clemson in 2008. Were you writing stories then? DL: Thanks, Allen. Congratulations to you, as […]
Allen Mendenhall Interviews DJ Donaldson, Author of “Assassination at Bayou Sauvage”
August 29, 2017 by Leave a Comment
AM: Thanks for doing this interview, Don, and congratulations on the publication of your latest in the Andy Broussard mystery series, Assassination at Bayou Sauvage. How has this series developed over the years? DD: The first book, Cajun Nights, was a very strange story, partially because the editor at St. Martins, who ultimately bought it, asked me […]