By Staff on December 6, 2011
By Diana Owen Cooper-Young’s very own Corey Mesler was kind enough to let me pick his brain after I was bowled over by his poetry. I am about to head to Burke’s Books to pick up his latest book, Gardner Remembers, and per Corey, it’s “a novel told in the form of an interview with (fictional) [...]
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By Staff on November 1, 2011
By Diana Owen Our city is a cog in the American wheel of starving artists – raw talent just beginning. Memphis is famous for supporting little buds of creativity, nurturing them, and making them shine before unleashing them on the world. This is a great place to be from, and more importantly, most artists don’t [...]
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By Staff on October 6, 2011
By Kimberly Richardson After recently reading the fractured yet beautiful novel Suite Francaise by Irene Nemirovsky, I decided to turn to another of her works to see if her magic still held. Reading Dimanche and Other Stories proved to not disappoint in the slightest. Within the book are ten stories of various French people, some [...]
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By Staff on September 3, 2011
By Kimberly Richardson Irene Nemirovsky’s unfinished novel Suite Francaise is a dream within a nightmare. This wonderfully engaging novel has a sad truth behind it. The author, while working on this piece, tried to flee Paris to escape the Nazis in 1942. She was caught and sent to Auschwitz where she later died. Thankfully, her [...]
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By Staff on July 2, 2011
By Kimberly Richardson Emile Zola’s powerful novel The Masterpiece is one that strikes me to my very core. As an award winning author and editor, I strive to deliver the best manuscripts to my publishers and will accept any form of criticism necessary to ensure sellable work. Yet, I refuse to allow my creative gift [...]
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By Staff on July 2, 2011
By Sarah Falter The grocery business began as a complicated service industry. Random pricing, inconsistent quantities, and prescriptive salesmen made grocery shopping burdensome. It took one brash Memphian with uncommon vision and unbridled ambition to change everything. Clarence Saunders worked his way out of poverty and obscurity to found Piggly Wiggly in 1916. With an [...]
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By Emily on June 4, 2011
By Kimberly Richardson My review of Alexander Brown’s book Traumatized begins with a funny story. While I was a guest at the Southern Fried Comic Conference in Jackson, Mississippi last June, I had the pleasure of meeting Alex and picking up a copy of his book. It is a collection of short stories, so I [...]
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By Emily on April 2, 2011
By Kimberly Richarson Let me get right to the point – Andy Deane’s werewolf novel, The Sticks, is one incredible ride! The narrating character, Brian, who is an all around slacker but a good guy at heart, leaves a party one night after being hoisted out by the host, affectionately known as Lisp. Several hours [...]
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By on January 31, 2011
By Kimberly Richardson Herman Hesse’s novel Steppenwolf is more than a simple story within a story: a man and his travels read by a young man who discovers his manuscript. This novel tells of a man coming to grips with his humanity as well as the beast within. This man, Harry Haller, is a purveyor [...]
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