Recommendations: Overlooked and Overlauded
I was pleased to be asked to contribute a couple of suggestions to AARP’s end-of-year round-up of 2010 books. The […]
Reviews/Recommendations
Reviews/Recommendations, Southern Literature
Recommendation: Oxford American’s 12th Annual Southern Music Issue
Apart from Metro itself, one of my favorite magazines is undoubtedly The Oxford American — and the highpoint of the
Writing
New Fiction: “Up, Up and Away” at SmokeLong Quarterly
My tendency is to write LONG. Most of my short stories are upwards of 5,000 words, and several have pushed
Mysteries/Thrillers, North Carolina Literature, Reviews/Recommendations
Review: Edge by Jeffery Deaver
Coincidentally, Jeffery Deaver’s new thriller, Edge, is set in two places I call home. The novel’s opening section — a
Mysteries/Thrillers, North Carolina Literature, Reviews/Recommendations
Recommendations: Christmas Mysteries
My own primary interests follow two paths: Southern literature on the one hand, building off of my own roots as
Mysteries/Thrillers, Reviews/Recommendations
Review: Moonlight Mile by Dennis Lehane
Dennis Lehane‘s new novel, Moonlight Mile, marks the first book in more than a decade in the author’s private eye
Literary News, Reviews/Recommendations
Review/News: Rut by Scott Phillips; Concord Free Press
The one-word title of Scott Phillips‘ witty and wonder-filled new novel draws less on the phrase “in a rut” than
North Carolina Literature, Reviews/Recommendations, Southern Literature
Review: Doubles by Nic Brown
Agatha Donkar, who last reviewed Nani Powers’ Ginger and Ganesh here at Art & Literature, now turns her eye toward
Literary News, Writing
News: SmokeLong Guest Editorship
The fine folks at SmokeLong Quarterly have asked me to serve as guest editor this week — handling all submissions between
North Carolina Literature, Reviews/Recommendations, Southern Literature
Review: 2010 Press 53 Open Awards Anthology
This week, award-winning fiction writer Tara Laskowski takes a peek at a new anthology from Press 53, an independent publishing
Interviews, Mysteries/Thrillers
Interview: Åke Edwardson, author of The Shadow Woman
K.E. Semmel has appeared before on this site offering reviews and hosting interviews — and then being interviewed himself for
Interviews, Mysteries/Thrillers
Interview: Sophie Hannah, author of The Truth-Teller’s Lie
Having long admired Laura Ellen Scott‘s own writing (and having interviewed her myself in these pages), I’m glad to welcome