By Donna Meredith What surprises most people about Terry Lewis is not that he can only carve out five hours a week for writing legal thrillers. It’s that he can find any time at all. Lewis has been a circuit court judge in the Second Judicial Circuit of Florida since 1998 and was a county […]
“Delusional,” by Terry Lewis
December 18, 2013 by Leave a Comment
Reviewed by Donna Meredith Ted Stevens, still sporting a host of flaws, returns as a criminal defense lawyer in another gripping courtroom mystery by Terry Lewis. Delusional, the third in the Ted Stevens series, follows Conflict of Interest and Privileged Information. It is Lewis’s most compelling book yet. In Delusional Ted is appointed by the […]
December Read of the Month: “Dancing Naked in Dixie,” by Lauren Clark
December 11, 2013 by Leave a Comment
Reviewed by J.R. Baldwin Award-winning travel writer Julia Sullivan is jet-lagged and on-deadline when she arrives back in New York. As she mentally prepares for a week in office, she is called into the editor’s office. Her new boss is a surprise, personally related, and not a welcome face. Even more so when Julia’s job […]
J.R. Baldwin
December 4, 2013 by Leave a Comment
J.R. Baldwin has a Bachelor of Arts in American Studies from Hillsdale College. She is a managing editor at Ignitum Today, and is a senior contributor at The Imaginative Conservative and The Mirror Magazine. She lives in New Orleans with her husband and daughter.
Notable Scholarship in Southern Studies
November 27, 2013 by Leave a Comment
Southern Literary Review would like to acknowledge and recommend a few works of scholarship that, we think, will interest our readers. Each book is about Southern themes or literature, broadly defined. Jon Smith. Finding Purple America: The South and the Future of American Cultural Studies. Athens, Georgia: The University of Georgia Press, 2013. From […]
“Primary Lessons,” by Sarah Bracey White
November 20, 2013 by 1 Comment
Reviewed by LisaMarie DeSanto Ask people to summarize their youth, and you’ll hear a variety of descriptions. Our childhoods are laced with humor and heartbreak, tragedy and joy, failure and triumph – all in varying degrees. Some parents gave their all, though limited emotionally, financially, or physically. Other parents had much to give but thought […]