By Nathan Coker
In Bayou Pages
Sep 7th, 2022
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by Kiese Laymon “Thanking Jesus for getting us through situations we should have never been in was one of our family’s superpowers” I first heard of Kiese Laymon’s work in a book review podcast and was immediately drawn into his discussion of revision. He is known for buying back the rights to one of...
By Nathan Coker
In Bayou Pages
Aug 1st, 2022
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by Alex Temblador “I settled back into a rhythm that I had long forgotten. I used the long stretches of time to watch the Lawless write their story on the Highway. Their tires drew endless ribbons of black lines across the road, telling a story that would never be read or understood. Motorcycle clubs...
By Nathan Coker
In Bayou Pages
Aug 1st, 2022
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by Stanley Tucci “Perhaps the most precious heirlooms are family recipes. Like a physical heirloom, they remind us from whom and where we came and give others, in a bite, the story of another people from another place and another time. Recipes are a part of our history that can be re-created over and...
By Nathan Coker
In Bayou Pages
Jul 1st, 2022
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by Carson McCullers | review by Meredith McKinnie “People felt themselves watching him even before they knew that there was anything different about him. His eyes made a person think that he heard things that no one else had ever heard, that he knew things no one had ever guessed before. He did not ...
By Nathan Coker
In Bayou Pages
Jul 1st, 2022
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by Lisa Taddeo | Review by Meredith McKinnie “Let me tell you: men love cruelty. It reminds them of every time their fathers or mothers didn’t think they were good enough. Cruelty looks better on a woman than the perfect dress.” Lisa Taddeo’s writing singes like a lightning bolt. Her social commenta...
By Nathan Coker
In Bayou Pages
May 29th, 2022
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by Stephen Graham Jones REVIEW BY MEREDITH MCKINNIE “And that’s how I recognized him that first night, crossing from the living room through the kitchen. His boots, his bustle. His fancydancer outline. In death, he had become what he never could in life.” Junior is the man of his house. His father ha...
By Nathan Coker
In Bayou Pages
May 29th, 2022
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by James Weldon Johnson REVIEW BY MEREDITH MCKINNIE “In the life of everyone there is a limited number of experiences which are not written upon the memory, but stamped there with a die; and in the long years after, they can be called up in detail, and every emotion that was stirred by them can [&hel...
By Nathan Coker
In Bayou Pages
May 1st, 2022
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Book Review by Meredith McKinnie “A certain feeling comes from throwing your good life away, and it is one part rapture. Innocence was no part of this. She knew her own recklessness and marveled, really, at how one hard little flint of thrill could outweigh the pillowy, suffocating aftermath of a lon...
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...
