The Redemption of Don Juan Casanova by Lloyd Lofthouse Three Clover Press April 2015 321 pages From the back cover: From the award-winning author of ‘My Splendid Concubine’ and ‘Running With the Enemy’ comes ‘The Redemption of Don Juan Casanova’. Raised by his grandparents to be a Lothario, Don, as he approaches 40, has successfully…
Pleasantville by Attica Locke Harper April 21, 2015 Paperback, 432 pages Pleasantville is a predominantly black neighborhood on the northeast side of Houston, Texas. This neighborhood is notorious for its high voter turnout in most elections. The novel, Pleasantville, by Attica Locke, is set in Pleasantville, the neighborhood, in 1996 and begins with the disappearance…
“X” Xue Xinran is a Chinese journalist who has lived in London since 1997. She was born in Beijing in 1958. When she arrived in London, she worked as a janitor while working on her first and highly acclaimed book. This book, The Good Women of China, relates her stories of women she met and interacted…
“W” Earlier on “Q” day, I wrote about Quincy Perkins and his film that will be presented at Cannes in the Short Film and American Pavilion sections in May. Swingers Anonymous, the short film, was a short story first and was featured in the book Dallas Noir, published Akashic Books and edited by David Hale Smith. Jonathan Woods is…
“V” I am please to present a very short interview with my blogging friend, Silvia Villalobos, whose first novel, Stranger or Friend, was published recently and that I devoured a couple of weeks ago. This story is a murder mystery set in a small town in Wyoming. The protagonist, attorney Zoe Sinclair, returns to her…
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