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Author Q & A with Lara Prescott
Interview by Jana Hoops. Special to the Clarion-Ledger Sunday print edition (November 17) Lara Prescott’s fictional account of three young women employed in the CIA’s typing pool who rise to the upper...
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Your Moment of Zen: Frank LaRue Owen’s ‘The Temple of Warm Harmony’
“Afoot and light hearted, I take to the open road.” So begins Whitman’s long poem “Song of the Open Road,” a delightful, meandering meditation on what it means to be human. A theme that Whitman hammers...
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Author Q & A with Phil Keith
Interview by Jana Hoops. Special to the Clarion-Ledger Sunday print edition (December 1) Author Phil Keith adds his sixth book to his collection as his collaboration with bestselling writer Tom Clavin...
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‘The Cofield Collection,’ now back in print, is a striking Faulkner portrait
By Allen Boyer. Special to the Clarion-Ledger Sunday print edition (December 1) “It wasn’t easy to get a smiling photograph of William Faulkner!” That was the fond, exasperated comment of J.R....
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History, mystery, and the open road in Nic Stone’s ‘Clean Getaway’
William “Scoob” Lamar, the protagonist of Nic Stone’s fantastic new middle grade adventure, Clean Getaway, has a lot of questions at the beginning of the book. He just doesn’t know it yet. When his...
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Scholar Phillip Gordon explores all of Faulkner’s walks on the wild side in...
By Jesse Yancy. Special to the Clarion-Ledger Sunday print edition (January 26) In Gay Faulkner, Phillip Gordon examines Faulkner’s interactions with gay men, his immersion in gay subcultures,...
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Author Q & A with Jerry Mitchell
Interview by Jana Hoops. Special to the Clarion-Ledger Sunday print edition (February 2) An assignment to cover the press premiere of a movie 30 years ago would bring a decades-old Mississippi murder...
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‘Follow the Angels, Follow the Doves’ explores complexities of slave life...
By John Mort. Special to the Clarion-Ledger Sunday print edition (March 8) Bass Reeves—a real, historical figure—was born a slave on an Arkansas plantation in the 1840s. In Sidney Thompson’s new novel,...
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Author Q & A with Taylor Brown
Interview by Jana Hoops. Special to the Clarion-Ledger Sunday print edition (March 15) A native of the Georgia coast, Taylor Brown offers readers his fourth novel, Pride of Eden, as an...
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‘Sisters of the Undertow’ magnifies sisterly bonds, satisfies like fine memoir
By Susan O’Bryan. Special to the Clarion-Ledger Sunday print edition (February 9) Sisters of the Undertow is not a long book. It also is not a quick or easy read requiring little thought or mental...
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