Curtis DeBerg’s 2024 Wrestling With Demons: In Search of the Real Ernest Hemingway, is appropriately titled. Beset by physical injuries,...

By Robert Wolf Ruskin Press, Decorah, Iowa, 2016 ISBN 978-0-9741826-4-3 Robert Wolf’s BUILDING THE AGRICULTURAL CITY: A HANDBOOK FOR...

A few days ago a short clip in the newspaper reported a chance encounter between a local American Legion motorcycle club and a scruffy...

I am more and more drawn to learning about the people, culture, and history of Appalachia. My paternal heritage is connected to the...

CITY ON FIRE By Garth Risk Halberg Alfred A. Knopf, NY 2015 ISBN # 978-0-385-35377-9 Book Review by Rod Haynes ...

One of the things I like to do with my writing is to maintain a journal where I capture quotes from books, bumper stickers, or anything...

This past March America lost a prolific novelist and accomplished poet, whose literary fame was greater abroad than here at home. A...

"One cannot see too many sunrises on the Mississippi. They are enchanting. First, there is the eloquence of silence; for a deep hush...

Empire of Sin: A Story of Sex, Jazz, Murder and the Battle for New Orleans By Gary Krist Crown Publishers, NY 2014 ISBN 978-0-7704-3707-7...

I recently read Carson McCullers’ The Heart is A Lonely Hunter for the first time, the same week that literary icon Harper Lee, of To...

Book Review LAFAYETTE IN THE SOMEWHAT UNITED STATES by Sarah Vowell Riverhead Books, NY, 2015 ISBN 9761594631740 How does an author...

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I am pleased to announce the revised edition of BEFORE THE SCRAMBLE is now available for purchase on KIINDLE under my name, at...

I recently read that a good tactic for authors lacking wide readership is to give away copies of their work. Over the past two months I...