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'The Whiskey Rebels' is Solid Yet Slightly Different Historical Fictionnew
I had some assumptions about historical fiction before I even picked up a copy of The Whiskey Rebels -- and some of them, it turns out, were not unfounded.
San Antonio Current |
Lyle Rosdahl |
10-22-2008 |
Fiction
Philip Roth Looks Back on a Legendary Career, and Forward to His Final Actnew
The backward-looking, documentary storytelling impulse in Indignation is a continuation of a growing vein of Roth's work in the past decade, books obsessed and possessed by American history.
Las Vegas Weekly |
John Freeman |
09-19-2008 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
Historical Fiction 'The Black Tower' Delivers the Goodsnew
Palace intrigue, mysterious deaths and a naïve young doctor overwhelmed by France's most prominent police detective. What's not to like?
Creative Loafing (Charlotte) |
Erik Spanberg |
09-17-2008 |
Fiction
'Bedlam South' is an Old War from a New Grishamnew
Mark Grisham (brother of John) and David Donaldson have a story they want to tell about the American Civil War, the birth of the practice of psychology in the United States and the hand of God in human affairs. That's a tall order for a debut set in a landscape already so thoroughly tunneled and trenched.
C-Ville Weekly |
Elizabeth McCullough |
09-17-2008 |
Fiction
