“This Day In Civil Rights History”
Last week, The Rap Sheet published my reflections on Ed Lacy’s Room to Swing as part of its regular Friday […]
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Marianne Gingher On “Long Story Short”
Long Story Short: Flash Fiction by Sixty-Five of North Carolina’s Finest Writers offers a concise, comprehensive, and compulsively readable collection
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Is It Shameless Self-Promotion If It’s Your Wife You’re Bragging About?
Looking for some good weekend reading? Let me suggest some recent very short fiction by Tara Laskowski — a completely
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Reviews in Washington Post & The Strand
Today, the Washington Post publishes my reviews of Cara Black‘s Murder in the Latin Quarter and Andrea Camilleri‘s August Heat.
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John Hart’s “The Last Child”
Today, the Washington Post runs my review of John Hart’s third — and in my opinion best — novel, The
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Newsmen Collected and Conversed About
The death knell of American print journalism is being sounded with great regularity these days — more frequently surely than
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New Stories At SmokeLong Quarterly
On the heels of my own fiction publication earlier this week, I’m pleased also to celebrate and recommend two new
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Our Humble Blog Added To OA Pulse
The Oxford American, not just one of the finest magazines about the American South but one of the best publications
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N.C. Events: Taylor, Southern, and Dessen & Smart Bitches On Heaving Bosoms
As some readers here may know, I’m getting married on Saturday, June 6, and will soon be flying off to
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Trading Coasts: Sherlock Holmes in America
Though it had previously slipped under my radar, a new anthology edited by Martin H. Greenberg, Jon L. Lellenberg, and
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Recommendations: Kyle Semmel & Ryan Effgen
I’ve been giving lots of bandwidth here to my friend and fellow writer Kyle Semmel — but only because he’s
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Iran’s Nuclear Threat: Two Timely New Thrillers
My review in today’s Washington Post (Tuesday, May 26) could hardly have been timed better — a testament to the