by Site Owner | Apr 16, 2013 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), Short Stories
Thoreau, the Ecological Prophet Edited by Carol Spenard LaRusso New World Library, $14.00, 105 pages Although Henry David Thoreau died 150 years ago, his voice still resonates as a prophetic spokesman for nature and as a dire warning to the 21 century...
by Site Owner | Apr 13, 2013 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), Classics, Horror
Once Upon A Fright? By Maura McHugh, Illustrated by Jane Laurie Barron’s, $19.99, 144 pages Maura McHugh, author of Twisted Fairy Tales: Dark Stories with a Dark and Dangerous Heart writes, “Open this book—but only after you’re prepared for a...
by michaeld | Mar 24, 2013 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), Biographies & Memoirs
Sylvia Plath Revisited By Elizabeth Winder Harper, $25.99, 288 pages Author Elizabeth Winder claims that her book is an “attempt to undo the cliché of Plath as a demon-plagued artist,” written in order to reveal the troubled author as “an...
by michaeld | Mar 5, 2013 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), Reference
By Mike Chasar Columbia University Press, $27.50, 302 pages Mike Chasar, an assistant professor of Literature and Creative Writing at Willamette University in Salem, Oregon, takes us on a sentimental journey back into the 20th century, a time...
by michaeld | Feb 20, 2013 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), Nature, Outdoors & Animals
Beyond Bones By Bjørnar Olsen, Michael Shanks, Timothy Webmoor, & Christopher Witmore University of California Press, 34.95, 266 pages Archaeology: The Discipline of Things by Bjørnar Olsen, Michael Shanks, Timothy Webmoor, and Christopher Witmore is...