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There is a popular timeless idiom which suggests that “lightning does not strike twice”. If it happened to you once then it probably won’t happen again. That stated, I was first introduced to K.A. Minton by way of his first novel, Moonlight Over Paris, a wonderfully sensual novel modestly composed of a fresh writing style and …
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MG Hardie’s recent book, It Ain’t Just The Size, had sat on my desk a full week after I’d retrieved it from the post office. (I decided to read IAJTS before my hedonistic trip to San Diego, just after I’d completed Svetlana Lavochkina’s interesting short story, Like a Real Man.) Hardie’s book will be the last …
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In Bell Hooks’ seminal book, Ain’t I A Woman: black women and feminism, she is angry, disappointed, highly critical, and leaves no stone unturned. Everyone and everything falls under her critical magnifying glass of historical observation of white male patriarchal oppression, critically examining the failure of various historical freedom movements to include black women. Hooks argues …
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Instead of reading Dale Ray Lewis’s highly anticipated book of short stories, My People’s Waltz; instead of reading Cheryl Lynn Greenberg's To Ask for an Equal Chance: African Americans in the Great Depression; instead of taking a chance with Robert Goolrick’s new book, A Reliable Wife; instead of taking time to read Anton Chekhov’s “Murder” …
I met holistic health educator and author Versandra Kennebrew at a popular Downtown Detroit breakfast spot to discuss her new book, Thank God for the Shelter: memoirs of a homeless healer. She was 30 minutes late. Over a supple breakfast of eggs, bacon, English muffin, grits, hash-browns, coffee and cigarettes - and Kennebrews vegetarian omelette …
I just didn’t need another kid at this point in my life. So when Denicio Barbier invited me to dinner just so she could tell me to my face that she was pregnant and the kid is mine I freaked out, pushed her out of my way, jumped in my car and headed straight to …
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The truth of the matter is that - at that point in my life - I just simply did not have “the time nor the inclination” (as Hitchcock would say) to review anyone else’s book. I was tired, exhausted, and not even close to the end of an extensive book tour of which I grew …
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“Push, where are you? Are you in Detroit?” “No, but I’m headed that way now. What’s up?” “There’s a house party out in West Bloomfield and you’re invited! There’s going to be a table full of hot, gorgeous women and you’re our special guest!” I laughed. It was 3:14pm, Arizona time, and there was no …
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Flight 664 had me agitated and bothered since the moment I’d arrived at the Phoenix/Mesa Gateway airport to board the dubious flight headed East to Grand Rapids, Michigan. Hungry and worried over the possibility that risky weather might reroute my flight to Texas or maybe even back to dusky Mesa, I grabbed a burrito, a …
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I’ve always believed that one can never truly appreciate a book unless one understands the writer's story. For example, we can never really appreciate Hemingway's work unless we know something of his adventurous lifestyle, chronic alcoholism, sporadic depression, complex love life, military interests, and his beloved Finca Vigía. As well, much of Zora Neale Hurston’s personal life (and struggles), her Eatonville …
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