By Nathan Coker
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by Barbara Neely REVIEW BY MEREDITH MCKINNIE “This is how we’ve survived in this country all this time, by knowing when to act like we believe what we’ve been told and when to act like we know what we know. Blanche White is a black domestic worker with a sharp tongue, keen intuition, and an […...
By Nathan Coker
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Nov 10th, 2020
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by Ibram X. Kendi REVIEW BY MEREDITH MCKINNIE “Racist ideas fooled me nearly my whole life. I refused to allow them to continue making a fool out of me, a chump out of me, a slave out of me. I realized there is nothing wrong with any of the racial groups and everything wrong with […]...
By Nathan Coker
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Nov 10th, 2020
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by Pamela Paul & Maria Russo REVIEW BY MEREDITH MCKINNIE “Literacy experts talk about the need for a child to be exposed to books that are both mirrors and windows – some should be mirrors in which a child can see herself reflected, and others should be windows into the experiences of peopl...
By Nathan Coker
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Oct 5th, 2020
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by Amanda Eyre Ward Nightstands and Coffeetables | Bayou Pages REVIEW BY MEREDITH MCKINNIE “She wanted him to know she’d been a stunning beauty once – that inside, she was still that graceful young boheme. But strangers seeing you as someone you couldn’t bear to be was simply one of the indigni...
By Nathan Coker
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Oct 5th, 2020
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by Curtis Sittenfeld Nightstands and Coffee Tables | BayouPages REVIEW BY MEREDITH MCKINNIE “When I finished, I walked along Walter St, not entirely sure what to do. I had no idea, of course, that all of my feelings of my youth that would pass, it was this one, of an abundance of time so great [&hell...
By Nathan Coker
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Sep 8th, 2020
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BAYOU PAGES | NIGHTSTANDS & COFFEE TABLES REVIEW BY MEREDITH MCKINNIE “Families like the Miltons had always pulled the levers of the country in quiet, without considering that quiet to be anything strange, passing down that expectation to their sons early on.” This sweeping literary masterpiece c...
By Nathan Coker
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Sep 8th, 2020
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BAYOU PAGES | NIGHTSTANDS & COFFEE TABLES REVIEW BY MEREDITH MCKINNIE “When you change a scent, you change the memory.” I read this book with my nose. This is a glorious love letter to the power of the senses, particularly smell and its connection to memory. Bauermeister writes eloquently about n...
By Nathan Coker
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Sep 8th, 2020
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BAYOU PAGES | NIGHTSTANDS & COFFEE TABLES REVIEW BY MEREDITH MCKINNIE “Growing up out here in the country taught me things. Taught me that after the first fat flush of life, time eats away at things; it rusts machinery, it matures animals to become hairless and featherless, and it withers plants…...
By Nathan Coker
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Jul 30th, 2020
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Nightstands & Coffee Tables REVIEW BY MEREDITH MCKINNIE “I think it would be best if we went our separate ways, and that those paths never again connected.” This timely debut novel by Kiley Reid speaks to two different audiences simultaneously, exposing the truths we keep hidden from one another ...
By Cassie Livingston
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Jun 5th, 2020
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NIGHTSTANDS & COFFEE TABLES REVIEW BY MEREDITH MCKINNIE “These crises and catastrophes had braided the four of them together, like vines around a trunk. Easy to believe those bonds hid no malice in their grip; easy to believe they could hold forever.” Holsinger’s novel explores the ties that bind...
