Reviewed by Jeanne Malmgren If anything is synonymous with Appalachian heritage, it’s the art of storytelling. For generations, highlanders have sat on front porches and under trees, spinning yarns that are sometimes true, sometimes a little “stretched.” When Les Brown was a boy, he listened keenly to the oral history of his forebears—and now, in […]
“Good Eye, Bad Eye” by Jeanne Malmgren
May 14, 2025 by Leave a Comment
Readers of Jeanne Malmgren’s engaging memoir, Good Eye, Bad Eye, will find the universal themes and the clarity of her writing style appealing. From her personal story of trauma following a childhood eye injury, life truths emerge as Jeanne struggles to find her way in the world. This is not another poor-pitiful-me memoir. Instead, it […]
“Craft & Current: A manual for magical writing” by Janisse Ray
October 15, 2024 by 2 Comments
Janisse Ray could have taken the easy way out. She could have produced a manual for writers that offers up her secrets of scene-building, dialogue, narrative tension—the usual stuff. She could have stuck to the basics, and her legion of fans would have eaten up this book, anyway. Ray, however, did not take the easy […]
Jeanne Malmgren
October 14, 2024 by Leave a Comment
Jeanne Malmgren is a Pushcart Prize-nominated author whose writing appeared in magazines and newspapers nationwide during her 20-year career as a journalist at the Tampa Bay Times. She is the author of Good Eye, Bad Eye: A Memoir of Trauma and Truth, the searing story of her childhood injury, which Kirkus Reviews called “a fresh, […]