I am tired of blurbs with their inflated claims of greatness. “Not since so and so have we seen such amazing thus and such” etc. Yet, in turning to the daunting task of reviewing Bill Lavender’s City of God (MadHat Press, 2026), his book, which, let me get it said sooner rather than later (in […]
“City of God” by Bill Lavender
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Bill Lavender Interviews Moira Crone about her Book “The Not Yet”

BILL LAVENDER: What does the book have and have not to do with New Orleans? MOIRA CRONE: When I first started writing the book in the 1990’s, I set it in New Orleans because I live here, and because it began with a dream that was set here—a strange dream of a young man sitting in […]
Filed Under: Author Profiles & Interviews Tagged With: Bill Lavender, Cormac McCarthy, Edgar Allan Poe, Fredrick Jameson, Kazuo Ishiguru, Left Hand of Darkness, Margaret Atwood, Moira Crone, New Orleans, Octavia Butler, P.D. James, Parable of the Sower, The Not Yet, The Road, University of New Orleans Press, Ursula LeGuin, William Gibson
