CRYSTAL FALLS by Brad Walseth “When it came right down to it, I was surprised to discover it really wasn’t as hard as I thought it would be to kill Jesse Ray Hawkins.” So admits sensitive outcast Nate “Preacher” LaPointe at the beginning of Brad Walseth’s latest novel, Crystal Falls, (Satalyte Publishing, 2014; softcover $18.00;… Read more »
The culinary legacy of Edna Lewis is celebrated in SAVORING THE SOUTH: Memories of Edna Lewis, the Grande Dame of Southern Cooking with Recipes
There is little doubt that the much anticipated Ken Burns’ PBS documentary, “The Roosevelts,” will be a cimamatic masterpiece. Telling a compelling story, woven together by the narration of famous actors, musically brilliant, and masterfully assembled is Ken Burns forte. However, as far as an in-depth examination of the personality and character of, Theodore Roosevelt… Read more »
There’s a teaching rule circulating in the book publishing industry: Search Amazon to see if your proposed title has already been used. Shane Wall, a pastor of a growing church in the college town of Orangeburg, SC, did just that, and to his surprise and admitted delight, he’d be the first to ever publish a… Read more »
Neal F. Thompson’s Reckoning: Vietnam and America’s Cold War Experience, 1945-1991 (Charlevoix Books; print $22.95, Kindle $9.99) offers readers an original and insightful account of America’s Cold War experience by exposing and demolishing the propaganda surrounding the conventional wisdom about the events of the Cold War era. Cold War orthodoxy provides Americans with every reason… Read more »
