By Nathan Coker
In Bayou Pages
May 1st, 2022
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Book Review by Meredith McKinnie “In great misfortunes, people want to be alone. They have a right to be. And the misfortunes that occur within one are the greatest. Surely the saddest thing in the world is falling out of love–if one has ever fallen in.” The professor St. Peter Godfrey is high...
By Nathan Coker
In Bayou Pages
Mar 31st, 2022
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Review by Meredith McKinnie “The thought became clear and clean: it would take just some small strokes of pen to transfer these doodled drafts onto the official blue index cards and he could pepper the dictionary with false entries. Thousands of them- cuckoos-in-the-nest, changeling words, easily ove...
By Nathan Coker
In Bayou Pages
Mar 31st, 2022
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REVIEW BY MEREDITH MCKINNIE “Early in my career as a killer, an experienced assassin once told me that the first time we kill someone, it’s because we were called by a need to do it. After that, homicide either makes us sick and we never do it again, or we like it so much that […]...
By Nathan Coker
In Bayou Pages
Mar 1st, 2022
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REVIEW BY MEREDITH MCKINNIE “She yearned for closeness, and yet her own responses prevented it. She would never be kittenishly playful with him; he would never confront hard truths with her. They could scarcely ever relax with each other.” Anna Eleanor Roosevelt, born in 1884, is known for being the ...
By Nathan Coker
In Bayou Pages
Mar 1st, 2022
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REVIEW BY MEREDITH MCKINNIE “Motherhood. Now that’s a foreign country.” Lionel Shriver’s novel about the complications of motherhood and the influence of parenting on a child’s development is gripping, frank, and forces readers to meditate on the unthinkable. Two years prior, Eva Khatchadourian’s son...
By Nathan Coker
In Bayou Pages
Feb 1st, 2022
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by Colson Whitehead “The music stopped. The circle broke. Sometimes a slave will be lost in a brief eddy of liberation. In the sway of a sudden reverie among the furrows or while untangling the mysteries of an early morning dream. In the middle of a song on a warm Sunday night. Then it comes, [&helli...
By Nathan Coker
In Bayou Pages
Jan 1st, 2022
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by Margaret Wilkerson Sexton REVIEW BY MEREDITH MCKINNIE “People are so afraid of hauntings but I pray for them. Lord, clear me out so I can be with all that have lived through me. There are the sweet hauntings, the tender ones you yearn for. Just one minute with the great beyond, I beg of […]...
By Nathan Coker
In Bayou Pages
Jan 1st, 2022
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by Edith Wharton REVIEW BY MEREDITH MCKINNIE “The real loneliness is living among all these kind people who only ask one to pretend.” I somehow managed to make it through a graduate degree in English without ever having been assigned Edith Wharton’s The Age of Innocence, a fictional story of New York...
By Nathan Coker
In Bayou Pages
Dec 1st, 2021
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“Ruth had learned only one thing from the current reality, and it was that everything held together by tacit agreement that it would. All it took to unravel something was one party deciding to do just that. There was no real structure to prevent chaos. There was only a collective faith in order.” The...
By Nathan Coker
In Bayou Pages
Dec 1st, 2021
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REVIEW BY MEREDITH MCKINNIE “Grief, when it comes, is nothing we expect it to be. Grief has no distance. Grief comes in waves, paroxysms, sudden apprehensions that weaken the knees and blind the eyes and obliterate the dailiness of life.” Didion sparked my interest after the Netflix documentary The C...
