By Reagan Henderson
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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 Reagan Henderson
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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 Reagan Henderson
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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 Reagan Henderson
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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 Reagan Henderson
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 Reagan Henderson
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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 Reagan Henderson
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 Reagan Henderson
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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 Reagan Henderson
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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 Reagan Henderson
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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 […]...
