Day: November 12, 2020

From the Land of Genesis

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

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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 […]

Iron Curtain

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

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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 […]