Reviewed by Christopher X. Shade In Brandon Hobson’s second book, Deep Ellum, just out from Calamari Press, siblings reunite in a bad part of town, this time in a district of Dallas where apartments look out at warehouses, low-rise buildings, 7-11s, liquor stores, and bars. The kind of streets with graffiti and with shopping carts […]
“White Trash,” by Alexandra Allred
April 9, 2014 by Leave a Comment
Reviewed by Michael Pitts In her latest offering, White Trash, former Olympian Alexandra Allred takes the reader back to the familiar town of Granby, Texas. In a place denoted by gossip and complicated social relationships, a young single mother acts as a commentator, comically analyzing the peculiarities of each person and social group. The text […]
Joyce Corrington Publishes the Work of Late Husband John William Corrington
February 20, 2013 by Leave a Comment
Joyce Corrington, pictured above, has made her late husband John William “Bill” Corrington’s book The Upper Hand available on Amazon as a Kindle e-book. Click here to view or purchase this book. Even more important, she has collected John William Corrington’s poems into a book. Click here to view or purchase this book. This is the first publication of Corrington’s collected poems, […]
Remember Ben Clayton, by Stephen Harrigan
July 24, 2011 by 1 Comment
Click to Buy Remember Ben Clayton By Stephen Harrigan Reviewed by Patricia O’Sullivan After learning that his only child, Ben, has died on a World War I battlefield in France, Lamar Clayton’s grief drives him to come face to face with the haunting memories of his childhood. Lamar commissions a statue of Ben, […]
February Read of the Month: God’s Angry Man, by B. Wayne Quist
February 1, 2011 by Leave a Comment
Reviewed by Christopher Bundrick God’s Angry Man: The Incredible Journey of Private Joe Haan paints a very interesting picture of a mid-twentieth century American experience. A sort of American everyman, Joe Haan might represent our sense of what’s best about this country. Like Huckleberry Finn (born just a little further south on the Mississippi), Haan […]