By Nathan Coker
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Jun 26th, 2014
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by Nelson George (William Morrow) | review by Casey Matthews So, there I was in the bookstore, buying a gift for someone when my eyes were magically drawn to one particular book. On the cover were two people, paused mid-dance, wearing matching yellow tops and high-waisted bell-bottom jeans. As if pul...
By Nathan Coker
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May 21st, 2014
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Four Masterpieces to Becoming a Well-Rounded Reader article by Michael DeVault Sitting at a dinner party, you hear two friends discussing characters and events that sound familiar, and you start to play closer attention. They’re talking about a book, a classic that maybe you were supposed to ha...
By Nathan Coker
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Feb 25th, 2014
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Radiance of Tomorrow: A Novel by Ishmael Beah | Review by Casey Matthews In 2007, Ishmael Beah published his memoir A Long Boy Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier about his horrifying experience fighting for the Sierra Leone Armed Forces in his country’s civil war. After the Revolutionary United Front (RU...
By Nathan Coker
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Jan 26th, 2014
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BayouPages: A Prayer Journal by Flannery O’Connor | Review by Casey Matthews Flannery O’Connor is one of the greatest writers the South ever produced. O’Connor wrote two novels and a myriad of book reviews and commentaries; however, she is best known for her short stories. Recently, O’Connor’s ...
By Cassie Livingston
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Jan 1st, 2014
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By The Editors of Garden & Gun | Review By Casey Matthews As a Southern ex-patriot who now lives in the frozen Midwest, I find myself fielding questions about what it is like to be “Southern.” A colleague of mine teaches William Faulkner’s “A Rose for Emily” and refers to Emily as a southern bell...
