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Book Review: The Lady With Balls by Alice Combs
Midwest Book Review just published an abridged version of our book review on Alice Combs’ The Lady With Balls. The full review is below. I don’t want a mirror telling me I’m the fairest in all the land; I want another intelligent adult’s honest opinion. Alice...
The 1918 Pandemic And Willa Cather’s One Of Ours
Previously Discussed Literature On The 1918 PandemicKatherine Anne Porter: Pale Horse, Pale RiderWilliam Maxwell: They Came Like Swallows This grey wall, unshaken, mighty, was the end of the long preparation, as it was the end of the sea. It was the reason for...
William Maxwell’s They Came Like Swallows
To deal with pandemics, read about them. That’s my advice.The 1918 pandemic did not inspire much literature of its own. World War I sucked up all the paper and ink with such greats as Erich Maria Remarque’s All Quiet On The Western Front (1928) and Hemingway’s...
Some Personal Thoughts On Ali Smith’s Seasonal Quartet
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Here We Go Again
One of the first blogs I wrote concerned a philosophical conundrum that is also a political conundrum: The Trolley Problem and the Winter of our Discontent. The problem addressed is simple in theory but oh so difficult in practice. How should we deal with a policy...
The Evolution of a Book Cover
About a dozen years ago I took a picture of one of the many abandoned buildings in Oaxaca. I walked past this building nearly every day. It can still be seen (although transformed) on the corner of Reforma and Constitution Streets just across from the famous...
Pale Horse, Pale Rider: Katherine Anne Porter’s Classic Story of the 1918 Pandemic
Death always leaves one singer to mourn. In 1918 Katherine Anne Porter was 28 years old working for the Rocky Mountain News in Denver Colorado. A young soldier lived in her boarding house while waiting to be deployed overseas. They became close and spent much of...
Have We Outgrown Democracy?
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4 Reviews for Behind The Locked Door
Behind the Locked Door by David Herstle JonesBuy now: Behind The Locked Door is available in Mendocino from Gallery Books, Moore Books, and the Mendocino Public Library; in Fort Bragg from The Bookstore and the Fort Bragg Public Library; from my Think in the Morning...
The Upside of the Coronavirus
Hundreds of thousands, maybe millions will likely get the coronavirus and tens of thousands, maybe many more, will die from it. How could there be any upside to this crisis? There may not be. Yet, the incurable optimism built into the human psyche shows that we...
Author Interview: Behind The Locked Door
Author Interview: David Herstle Jones Today, Feathered Quill reviewer Amy Lignor is talking with David Herstle Jones, author of Behind the Locked Door. FQ: How difficult was this book to write, since it was based on your own family’s situation? Did you find this to...
New Book Review for Behind The Locked Door
We are delighted to have received a new book review from Feathered Quill Book Reviews. Read below. Behind the Locked DoorBy: David Herstle JonesPublisher: Think in the MorningPublication Date: December 2019ISBN: 978-0-578-58955-8Reviewed by: Amy LignorReview Date:...