The Word of God
by Spike Gillespie / Posted on | No CommentsI came to Mary Karr’s new memoir, Lit, lugging a bumpy suitcase full of emotions and expectations. Could she really have more to tell [...]
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The Rich are Revolting
by Lou Dubose / Posted on | No CommentsWhat’s not to like about a novel in which Bernard Rapoport’s father is the subject of an anti-communist smear and Bernard spends his time [...]
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Piney Wood Pulp
by Stayton Bonner / Posted on | No CommentsLike most of Nacogdoches-based Joe R. Lansdale’s work, Vanilla Ride is set in East Texas. More Flannery O’Connor than Elmer Kelton, East Texas is [...]
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Southern Bound
by Stephanie Elizondo Griest / Posted on | No CommentsAnthology editing must be one of literature’s most thankless jobs. You are challenged by writers, readers and critics on every front: whom you included, [...]
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by Hank Stuever / Posted on | No CommentsIn Tinsel, Washington Post Style-section writer Hank Stuever immerses himself in the Dallas suburb of Frisco, with some of the Americans who help make [...]
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