A SECRET SISTERHOOD Almost every page of Emily Midorikawa and Emma Claire Sweeney’s book, A Secret Sisterhood, inversely took me back to my college studies.
A few months ago, Sunny posted companion musings where she and I both opined about the tempo and rhythms of Southern literature. At the time, I
A big Thank You! to Claire Barnes for mentioning Bookin’ with Sunny in her blog piece If Not Now…..When? in HuffPost 50. We at BWS appreciate her kind
Instinct: A way of behaving, thinking, or feeling that is not learned; a natural desire or tendency that makes you want to act in a
Relativity A major reason why I so enjoy my involvement with “Bookin’ with Sunny” centers on the books themselves. Not only do I get to
EDINBURGH TWILIGHT As soon as I discover I’m reading a mystery that involves a serial killer, especially if the murders sound gruesome, I put the
SAINT X Alexis Schaitkin’s debut novel, Saint X, opens with the languid ennui of a mid-winter Caribbean vacation. An omniscient narrator sets scenes filled with
Read a newspaper lately, in hand or online? War, famine, global warming and now Ebola — it’s no wonder publishers are publishing and readers are
RANTS FROM THE HILL In 2010, the High Country News editors asked Mike Branch to write a monthly column for its online edition. They asked
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