Month: November 2020

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Crime Fiction: Moonflower Murders
by Anthony Horowitz

November 19, 2020 J. Kingston Pierce 0

Three years ago, author-screenwriter Anthony Horowitz’s Golden Age-style whodunit, Magpie Murders, won critical applause on both sides of the Atlantic. And not without ample justification. The novel introduced us to Susan Ryeland, one of the editors at a minor London publishing house, who was busily working her way through the manuscript of the ninth, and apparently concluding, entry in author Alan Conway’s best-selling mystery series starring Atticus Pünd, a 65-year-old half-Greek, half-German concentration camp survivor […]

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Cornell Woolrich Literary Estate Resurrects Long Lost Titles

November 17, 2020 admin 0

Criminal masterminds. Demented killers. Vengeful brides. The fiction of Cornell Woolrich is rife with the kind of psychological tension audiences have always craved. He has been called the foremost suspense writer of the 20th century and the Edgar Allan Poe of his era. Francis Nevins Jr., author of the biography Cornell Woolrich: First You Dream, Then You Die (1988) rated Woolrich the fourth best crime writer of his day, behind Dashiell Hammett, Erle Stanley Gardner […]

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This Just In… Literature: the Book, the Place and the Pen by Andrea L. Ambler and Jerald E. Klocek

November 17, 2020 News Editor 0

Literature: the Book, the Place and the Pen was written for teachers by teachers to encourage the teaching of literature in grades 4-12 and responding to it. The goal was to encourage the beginning teacher and to reassure the experienced. Literature: the Book, the Place and the Pen is indispensable for home school students and their parents. Intended to encourage students to become prolific readers in all genres – short story, novel, non-fiction, folk and […]

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Non-Fiction: Breaking Free from the Inner Critic by Kalie Marino

November 17, 2020 admin 0

Breaking Free from the Inner Critic: The Underlying Causes of All Addictions and Social Problems sets out to illustrate how potent human consciousness is and how human awareness and innate strength can inspire and guide people to a place of healing and oneness. Holistic and spiritual counselor Kalie Marino sets out to demonstrate that “the habit of being critical in everyday reality is a destructive addiction which is the underlying cause of all other addictions […]

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Non-Fiction: The Arrival of the Electric Car by Chris Johnston and Ed Sobey

November 17, 2020 admin 0

Are you ready to make the switch to electric vehicles? Or, are you still leery of the range and the cost of electrics? Here is a new source that answers your questions and will help you figure out if an electric car should be in your garage. The Arrival of the Electric Car by Chris Johnston and Ed Sobey works to describe what is different about driving an electric vehicle and why you might love […]

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Fiction: From the Land of Genesis by Stephen O’Shea

November 12, 2020 admin 0

Documentarian and explorer Stephen O’Shea  has written From the Land of Genesis, a book of creative non-fiction essays offering vivid slices of post-war life. The collection is intended to illustrate the hardships of normal life after living wartime experiences. O’Shea travelled the globe interviewing veterans and taking special care to authentically portray the veteran experience at home. The result is a literary fiction and narrative nonfiction hybrid, with fictional characters and settings, but references and […]

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Non-Fiction: The Biggest Hole in the Iron Curtain: The Batizy Story by Levente Batizy

November 12, 2020 admin 0

When people talk about the American Dream, images of the poor and the oppressed rising from their station to achieve success and a comfortable life often come to mind. The Batizy family, however, was neither poor nor oppressed prior to their journey to fulfill the American Dream. As a noble family in Eastern Europe, they lived comfortable and luxurious lives until communism took over and shattered their status quo. The Biggest Hole in the Iron […]

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Non-Fiction: Scoundrels and Spitballers by Philippe Garnier

November 4, 2020 J. Kingston Pierce 0

(Editor’s note: This review comes from Ben Terrall, a writer based in San Francisco, California, whose work has appeared in the San Francisco Chronicle, the San Francisco Bay View, In These Times, CounterPunch, and Noir City. Terrall last wrote for January Magazine about Surviving Autocracy by Masha Gessen.) Given the scary nature of pretty much everything these days (a raging pandemic amidst widespread disbelief in science; a ruling U.S. oligarchy dead set on destroying anything […]

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Reaching for Answers: Heather Martin Talks with Lee Child

November 3, 2020 Ali Karim 1

  In 2003, the World Crime and Mystery Convention known as Bouchercon was held in Las Vegas. Always a terrific event, I’m not the only one who thought that year was special. Lee Child was Toastmaster, and he was great at it. Just seven books into his Jack Reacher series, it was still relatively early in Child’s career and the event seemed to set the stage for all of the brilliance that was yet to […]