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Friday, October 22, 2021 Pg. 69: Jessica Vitalis's "The Wolf's Curse"Featured at the Page 69 Test: The Wolf's Curse by Jessica Vitalis.About the book, from the publisher:
Gauges life has been cursed since the day he cried Wolf and was accused of witchcraft. The Great White Wolf brings only death, Gauges superstitious village believes. If Gauge can see the Wolf, then he must be in league with it.Visit Jessica Vitalis's website.
So instead of playing with friends in the streets or becoming his grandpapas partner in the carpentry shop, Gauge must hide and pretend he doesnt exist. But then the Wolf comes for his grandpapa. And for the first time, Gauge is left all alone, with a bounty on his head and the Wolf at his heels.
A young feather collector named Roux offers Gauge assistance, and he is eager for the help. But soon the twoboth recently orphanedare questioning everything they have ever believed about their village, about the Wolf, and about death itself.
Narrated by the sly, crafty Wolf, Jessica Vitaliss debut novel is a vivid and literary tale about family, friendship, belonging, and grief. The Wolfs Curse will captivate readers of Laurel Snyders Orphan Island and Molly Knox Ostertags The Witch Boy.
QA with Jessica Vitalis.
The Page 69 Test: The Wolf's Curse.
--Marshal ZeringuePg. 99: Paul Freedman's "Why Food Matters"Featured at the Page 99 Test: Why Food Matters by Paul Freedman.
About the book, from the publisher:
From the author of Ten Restaurants That Changed America, an exploration of foods cultural importance and its crucial role throughout human historyLearn more about Why Food Matters at the Yale University Press website.
Why does food matter? Historically, food has not always been considered a serious subject on par with, for instance, a performance art like opera or a humanities discipline like philosophy. Necessity, ubiquity, and repetition contribute to the apparent banality of food, but these attributes dont capture foods emotional and cultural range, from the quotidian to the exquisite.
In this short, passionate book, Paul Freedman makes the case for foods vital importance, stressing its crucial role in the evolution of human identity and human civilizations. Freedman presents a highly readable and illuminating account of foods unique role in our lives, a way of expressing community and celebration, but also divisive with regard to race, cultural difference, gender, and geography. This wide-ranging book is a must-read for food lovers and all those interested in how cultures and identities are formed and maintained.
The Page 99 Test: Why Food Matters.
--Marshal ZeringueEight noir novels featuring saps and suckersGregory Galloway is the author of the novels The 39 Deaths of Adam Strand and the Alex Award-winning As Simple As Snow. His short stories have appeared in the Rush Hour and Taking Aim anthologies. He is a graduate of the Iowa Writers Workshop.
Galloway's new novel is Just Thieves.
At CrimeReads Galloway tagged eight "favorite noirs of characters in the wrong place, at the wrong time, with the wrong idea, thinking everything will be alright," including:
Ride the Pink Horse, by Dorothy B. HughesRead about another entry on the list.
Its hard to pick a Dorothy B. Hughes novel that doesnt have a character who gets into more and more trouble with every page. She likes to sink her characters way in over their heads and see how theyll make out. Whether its Sailor, whos out to blackmail his old boss, a US Senator, and outwit the cop who may or may not be after him (Ride the Pink Horse, 1946); or Dix Steele, who thinks he can outsmart everyone, including his best friend Brub, a detective looking for a serial killer (In a Lonely Place, 1947); or doctor Hugh Denismore, who has to try and clear himself of the murder of a hitchhiker hed picked up earlier (The Expendable Man, 1963), as external forces tighten around him.
--Marshal Zeringue Thursday, October 21, 2021 Bethany Ball's "The Pessimists," the movieFeatured at My Book, The Movie: The Pessimists by Bethany Ball.
The entry begins:
My first choice for Virginia Powers, my main protagonist, is Uma Thurman. I wanted to explore an idea of fading American middle-aged beauty. Im a little ashamed of the fact that this beauty is very cisgender, blonde, and white. I know its changing. But Ive experienced having a close friend who was blonde and tall and walking down the street with them and feeling utterly invisible. I always wondered what it would feel like to have all eyes on you, to be a ten and then to watch as that sort of beauty faded or was actually, as in Virginias case, taken away to some extent. My mother would never buy me a Barbie doll because, as she said, she was quite certain I wouldnt look anything like one. The American or maybe even world obsession with the tall beautiful white blonde is a strong one and my character Virginia has been sort of drifting along on the power of that myth.Visit Bethany Ball's website.
Rachel is a transplant from New York City to the suburbs and she was in part inspired, at least physically, by a woman I went to high school with who I see from time to time in New York City...[read on]
The Page 69 Test: What To Do About The Solomons.
QA with Bethany Ball.
My Book, The Movie: The Pessimists.
--Marshal ZeringuePg. 99: José Vergara's "All Future Plunges to the Past"Featured at the Page 99 Test: All Future Plunges to the Past: James Joyce in Russian Literature by José Vergara.
About the book, from the publisher:
All Future Plunges to the Past explores how Russian writers from the mid-1920s on have read and responded to Joyce's work. Through contextually rich close readings, José Vergara uncovers the many roles Joyce has occupied in Russia over the last century, demonstrating how the writers Yury Olesha, Vladimir Nabokov, Andrei Bitov, Sasha Sokolov, and Mikhail Shishkin draw from Joyce's texts, particularly Ulysses and Finnegans Wake, to address the volatile questions of lineages in their respective Soviet, émigré, and post-Soviet contexts. Interviews with contemporary Russian writers, critics, and readers of Joyce extend the conversation to the present day, showing how the debates regarding the Irish writer's place in the Russian pantheon are no less settled one hundred years after Ulysses.Visit José Vergara's website.
The creative reworkings, or "translations," of Joycean themes, ideas, characters, plots, and styles made by the five writers Vergara examines speak to shifting cultural norms, understandings of intertextuality, and the polarity between Russia and the West. Vergara illuminates how Russian writers have used Joyce's ideas as a critical lens to shape, prod, and constantly redefine their own place in literary history.
All Future Plunges to the Past offers one overarching approach to the general narrative of Joyce's reception in Russian literature. While each of the writers examined responded to Joyce in an individual manner, the sum of their methods reveals common concerns. This subject raises the issue of cultural values and, more importantly, how they changed throughout the twentieth century in the Soviet Union, Russian emigration, and the post-Soviet Russian environment.
The Page 99 Test: All Future Plunges to the Past.
--Marshal ZeringueTop ten true crime novelsAfter a peripatetic childhood in Glasgow, Paris, London, Invergordon, Bergen and Perth, Denise Mina left school early. Working in a number of dead end jobs, all of them badly, before studying at night school to get into Glasgow University Law School.
Mira went on to study for a PhD at Strathclyde, misusing her student grant to write her first novel. This was Garnethill, published in 1998, which won the Crime Writers Association John Creasy Dagger for Best First Crime Novel.
She has since published more than a dozen novels. Her new novella is Rizzio, based on the true story of a brutal murder in 1566, in the court of Mary, Queen of Scots.
At the Guardian Mina tagged ten top true crime novels, including:
The Executioners Song by Norman MailerRead about another entry on the list.
A fat book by an important man who hated women. I resented and enjoyed this Pulitzer prize-winning book about Gary Gilmore, published 13 years after In Cold Blood. It is very readable and set the conventions of the genre for a long time. It begins with a history of the geography and culture of the area, Gilmores family background, his early life and then moves onto his crimes and the consequences. If you like fat books by important men, youll love this.
The Executioner's Song also appears among the six books that most influenced Emily St. John Mandel as a writer, J. Michael Lennon's ten best Mailer books, Ron Hansen's five best literary tales of real-life crimes and Sarah Weinman's seven best true crime books; it is one of five books that made a difference to Josh Brolin.
--Marshal Zeringue Wednesday, October 20, 2021 Third reading: D.W. Buffa on "The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire"D.W. Buffa was a criminal defense attorney for 10 years and his Joseph Antonelli novels reflect that experience.The New York Times called The Defense "an accomplished first novel" which "leaves you wanting to go back to the beginning and read it over again." The Judgment was nominated for the Edgar Award for best novel of the year. The latest Joseph Antonelli novel is The Privilege.
Buffa writes a monthly review for the Campaign for the American Reader that we're calling "Third Reading." Buffa explains. "I was reading something and realized that it was probably the third time that I knew it well enough to write something about it. The first is when I read it when I was in college or in my twenties, the second, however many years later, when I wanted to see if it was as good as I remembered, and the third when I knew I was going to have to write about it."
Buffa's "Third Reading" of Gibbons The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire begins:
When someone suggested that Thomas Jefferson had borrowed some of the language of John Lockes Second Treatise on Government in his draft of the Declaration of Independence, Jefferson replied, in what remains the classic defense against a charge of plagiarism, that his responsibility had been to be correct, not original. Lincoln thought the Declaration not just correct, but should become our civic religion, taught to children so early that it would become a permanent part of their character. Mention the year l776, we immediately think of the Declaration, but 1776 was also the year in which two of the most important books ever written were published, both of them, like the Declaration, connected with the American experiment.About Buffa's new novelNeumanns Last Concert, from the publisher:
Adam Smiths The Wealth of Nations, demonstrated, once and for all, that the desire for acquisition, if left free of governmental, or religious, restriction would lead to a constant increase in the wealth of the community. Edward Gibbons The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire demonstrated how the greatest empire the world has ever seen was destroyed by a religion that taught that the only thing important was not what happened here...[read on]
Neumanns Last Concert is a story about music and war and the search for what led to the greatest evil in modern history. It is the story of an American boy, Wilfred Malone, who lost his father in the early days of the Second World War and a German refugee, Isaac Neumann, the greatest concert pianist of his age when he lived in Berlin, but who now lives, anonymous and alone, in a single rented room in a small town a few miles from San Francisco.Visit D.W. Buffa's website.
Wilfred has a genius for the piano, a keen curiosity not yet corrupted by vanity and a memory that forgot nothing essential. Neumann, alone in his room, is constantly writing, an endless labyrinth of questions and answers, driving him farther and farther back into the past, searching for the causes, searching for the meaning, of what happened in Germany, trying to understand what had led him, a German Jew, to stay in Germany when he could have left but instead continued to perform right up to the night that during his last concert they took his wife away.
Neumanns Last Concert is a novel about the great catastrophe of the 20th century and the way in which music, great music, preserves both the hope of human decency amidst the carnage of human insanity and the possibility of what human beings might still accomplish.
Third reading: The Great Gatsby.
Third reading: Brave New World.
Third reading: Lord Jim.
Third reading: Death in the Afternoon.
Third Reading: Parade's End.
Third Reading: The Idiot.
Third Reading: The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire.
--Marshal ZeringuePg. 99: Diane Coyle's "Cogs and Monsters"Featured at the Page 99 Test: Cogs and Monsters: What Economics Is, and What It Should Be by Diane Coyle.
About the book, from the publisher:
Digital technology, big data, big tech, machine learning, and AI are revolutionizing both the tools of economics and the phenomena it seeks to measure, understand, and shape. In Cogs and Monsters, Diane Coyle explores the enormous problemsbut also opportunitiesfacing economics today if it is to respond effectively to these dizzying changes and help policymakers solve the worlds crises, from pandemic recovery and inequality to slow growth and the climate emergency.Visit The Enlightened Economist blog.
Mainstream economics, Coyle says, still assumes people are cogsself-interested, calculating, independent agents interacting in defined contexts. But the digital economy is much more characterized by monstersuntethered, snowballing, and socially influenced unknowns. What is worse, by treating people as cogs, economics is creating its own monsters, leaving itself without the tools to understand the new problems it faces. In response, Coyle asks whether economic individualism is still valid in the digital economy, whether we need to measure growth and progress in new ways, and whether economics can ever be objective, since it influences what it analyzes. Just as important, the discipline needs to correct its striking lack of diversity and inclusion if it is to be able to offer new solutions to new problems.
Filled with original insights, Cogs and Monsters offers a road map for how economics can adapt to the rewiring of society, including by digital technologies, and realize its potential to play a hugely positive role in the twenty-first century.
The Page 69 Test: Diane Coyle's The Soulful Science.
The Page 99 Test: The Economics of Enough.
The Page 99 Test: Cogs and Monsters.
--Marshal ZeringueEight top books about living in Los AngelesMaría Amparo Escandón is the author of the #1 L.A. Times bestseller Esperanzas Box of Saints and González Daughter Trucking Co. Named a writer to watch by both Newsweek and the L.A. Times, she was born in Mexico City and has lived in Los Angeles for nearly four decades.
Escandón's new novel is L.A. Weather.
At Electric Lit she tagged eight favorite books about living in Los Angeles, including:
Malibu Rising by Taylor Jenkins ReidRead about another entry on the list.
Malibu Rising is a novel that captures the glamour, the empty façades, and the excesses of a celebrity-oriented surfing family. Malibu is part of the L.A. scene: a mix of money, sport, beach culture, and make-believe in approximately equal parts. Jenkins Reid focuses on the events of a single day when four siblings, children of a famous crooner, are throwing the end of summer party that every partygoer wants to attend. Hundreds show up and the party catalyzes the individual and family tensions until excess turns into mayhem and disaster. The four siblings are surfers and one can gather that the waves and their consequences are a proxy for lives lived on the edge: on the edge of financial, existential and emotional disaster, when the beauty of catching the perfect wave can be followed by a tumble into the angry ocean.
--Marshal Zeringue Tuesday, October 19, 2021 QA with Jessica Vitalis, author of The Wolf's Curse:
How much work does your title do to take readers into the story?Visit Jessica Vitalis's website.
The working title for this story was Death until very late in the process; not because I thought it was a great title, but because its a Grim Reaper retelling and I thought of the story as my death book as I was drafting. It wasnt until I started thinking about querying that I landed on The Wolfs Curse as the title. I love the ambiguity in that readers cant be sure if the title means that the wolf is cursed or if the wolf is the one doing the cursing. (Youll have to read the book to find out!)
What's in a name?
I think names are...[read on]
QA with Jessica Vitalis.
--Marshal ZeringuePg. 99: Martin Williams's "When the Sahara Was Green"Featured at the Page 99 Test: When the Sahara Was Green: How Our Greatest Desert Came to Be by Martin Williams.
About the book, from the publisher:
The Sahara is the largest hot desert in the world, equal in size to China or the United States. Yet, this arid expanse was once a verdant, pleasant land, fed by rivers and lakes. The Sahara sustained abundant plant and animal life, such as Nile perch, turtles, crocodiles, and hippos, and attracted prehistoric hunters and herders. What transformed this land of lakes into a sea of sands? When the Sahara Was Green describes the remarkable history of Earths greatest desertincluding why its climate changed, the impact this had on human populations, and how scientists uncovered the evidence for these extraordinary events.Visit Martin Williams's website.
From the Saharas origins as savanna woodland and grassland to its current arid incarnation, Martin Williams takes us on a vivid journey through time. He describes how the deserts ancient rocks were first fashioned, how dinosaurs roamed freely across the land, and how it was later covered in tall trees. Along the way, Williams addresses many questions: Why was the Sahara previously much wetter, and will it be so again? Did humans contribute to its desertification? What was the impact of extreme climatic episodessuch as prolonged droughtsupon the Saharas geology, ecology, and inhabitants? Williams also shows how plants, animals, and humans have adapted to the Sahara and what lessons we might learn for living in harmony with the harshest, driest conditions in an ever-changing global environment.
A valuable look at how an iconic region has changed over millions of years, When the Sahara Was Green reveals the deserts surprising past to reflect on its present, as well as its possible future.
The Page 99 Test: When the Sahara Was Green.
--Marshal ZeringueSix top books about crime s Johnson Space Center during the Apollo and Skylab eras. He graduated from the Plan II Honors Program of the University of Texas in 1983 and went on to earn degrees from the University of Reading in England and the University of Texas School of Law. After teaching at Saint Davids School in New York City, he returned to Austin to practice law and retired as general counsel of Superior HealthPlan in 2019. He is the author of Sour Lake (2011), Beatrice and the Basilisk (2014), and, with his daughter Carson, Carson Clares Trail Guide to Avoiding Death (And Other Unpleasant Consequences) (2017).
His latest work, In the Land of Dead Horses, is a spine-tingling tale of Texas history and supernatural terror. A prequel to 2011s Sour Lake, In the Land of Dead Horses reintroduces readers to Texas Ranger Jewel Lightfoot and his macabre world of double-barreled demon hunting.
At CrimeReads McCandless tagged six books "to truly understand the currents of violence and criminality that run just below the surface of U.S.-Mexican relations," including:
Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthyRead about another entry on the list.
The Jupiter of the border fiction solar system, a sort of Bible of blood and bad feeling, McCarthys 1985 masterpiece chronicles the relationship of two menthe Kid and the bizarre, possibly supernatural Judgeas they immerse themselves in murder and mayhem from Texas down into Mexico and back again. Set against the horrific true tale of the 1842 Mier Expedition, Blood Meridian has enough apocalyptic prose and dreamlike distancing to double as a script for the end of the world. Truly horrific and stunning, not quite allegorical but not entirely real either, youll want to wash your hands after reading this oneand maybe scrub your soul while youre at it. For a more recent treatment of similar themes, try the 2021 film The Forever Purge (seriously).
Blood Meridian is one authority's pick for the Great Texas novel; it is among Paul Howarth's top ten tales from the frontier, Craig DiLouies ten top fantasy books steeped in the Southern Gothic, Graham McTavish's six best books, ShortList's roundup of literature's forty greatest villains, Brian Boone's five great novels that will probably never be made into movies, Sarah Porter's five best books with unusual demons and devils, Chet Williamson's top ten novels about deranged killers, Callan Wink's ten best books set in the American West, Simon Sebag Montefiore's six favorite books, Richard Kadrey's five books about awful, awful people, Jason Sizemore's top five books that will entertain and drop you into the depths of despair, Robert Allison's top ten novels of desert war, Alexandra Silverman's top fourteen wrathful stories, James Franco's six favorite books, Philipp Meyer's five best books that explain America, Peter Murphy's top ten literary preachers, David Vann's six favorite books, Robert Olmstead's six favorite books, Michael Crummey's top ten literary feuds, Philip Connors's top ten wilderness books, six books that made a difference to Kazuo Ishiguro, Clive Sinclair's top 10 westerns, Maile Meloy's six best books, and David Foster Wallace's five direly underappreciated post-1960 U.S. novels. It appears on the New York Times list of the best American fiction of the last 25 years and among the top ten works of literature according to Stephen King.
--Marshal Zeringue Monday, October 18, 2021 Pg. 69: Margaret Verble's "When Two Feathers Fell From the Sky"Featured at the Page 69 Test: When Two Feathers Fell from the Sky by Margaret Verble.
About the book, from the publisher:
Louise Erdrich meets Karen Russell in this deliciously strange and daringly original novel from Pulitzer Prize finalist Margaret Verble: set in 1926 Nashville, it follows a death-defying young Cherokee horse-diver who, with her companions from the Glendale Park Zoo, must get to the bottom of a mystery that spans centuries.Visit Margaret Verble's website.
Two Feathers, a young Cherokee horse-diver on loan to Glendale Park Zoo from a Wild West show, is determined to find her own way in the world. Twos closest friend at Glendale is Hank Crawford, who loves horses almost as much as she does. He is part of a high-achieving, land-owning Black family. Neither Two nor Hank fit easily into the highly segregated society of 1920s Nashville.
When disaster strikes during one of Twos shows, strange things start to happen at the park. Vestiges of the ancient past begin to surface, apparitions appear, and then the hippo falls mysteriously ill. At the same time, Two dodges her unsettling, lurking admirer and bonds with Clive, Glendales zookeeper and a World War I veteran, who is hauntedliterallyby horrific memories of war. To get to the bottom of it, an eclectic cast of park performers, employees, and even the wealthy stakeholders must come together, making When Two Feathers Fell from the Sky an unforgettable and irresistible tale of exotic animals, lingering spirits, and unexpected friendship.
My Book, The Movie: Maud's Line.
Writers Read: Margaret Verble (March 2019).
The Page 69 Test: When Two Feathers Fell from the Sky.
--Marshal ZeringuePg. 99: Claudia Goldin's "Career and Family"Featured at the Page 99 Test: Career and Family: Womens Century-Long Journey toward Equity by Claudia Goldin.
About the book, from the publisher:
A century ago, it was a given that a woman with a college degree had to choose between having a career and a family. Today, there are more female college graduates than ever before, and more women want to have a career and family, yet challenges persist at work and at home. This book traces how generations of women have responded to the problem of balancing career and family as the twentieth century experienced a sea change in gender equality, revealing why true equity for dual career couples remains frustratingly out of reach.Learn more about Career and Family at the Princeton University Press website and follow Claudia Goldin on Twitter.
Drawing on decades of her own groundbreaking research, Claudia Goldin provides a fresh, in-depth look at the diverse experiences of college-educated women from the 1900s to today, examining the aspirations they formedand the barriers they facedin terms of career, job, marriage, and children. She shows how many professions are greedy, paying disproportionately more for long hours and weekend work, and how this perpetuates disparities between women and men. Goldin demonstrates how the era of COVID-19 has severely hindered womens advancement, yet how the growth of remote and flexible work may be the pandemics silver lining.
Antidiscrimination laws and unbiased managers, while valuable, are not enough. Career and Family explains why we must make fundamental changes to the way we work and how we value caregiving if we are ever to achieve gender equality and couple equity.
The Page 99 Test: Career and Family.
--Marshal ZeringueNine books about love, loss, and belonging set in the CaribbeanMyriam J. A. Chancy, Guggenheim Fellow HBA Chair of the Humanities at Scripps College, is a Haitian-Canadian/American writer born in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, and subsequently raised there and in Canada. After obtaining her BA in English/Philosophy from the University of Manitoba (1989) and her MA in English Literature from Dalhousie University, she completed her Ph. D. in English at the University of Iowa.
Chancy's new novel on the 2010 Haiti earthquake is What Storm, What Thunder.
At Electric Lit she tagged nine books about love, loss, and belonging set in the Caribbean, including:
Praisesong for the Widow by Paule MarshallRead about another entry on the list.
Paule Marshalls classic tackles themes of lost love, ideals, and spirituality in the journey of her African American protagonist, Avey (short for Avatara) who finds herself compelled to leave a cruise ship in the middle of the Caribbean. Disembarked in the small island of Carriacou, Avey recovers her African roots through local traditions like the drum dance and recalls traditions from her childhood in Ibo Landing in Georgia. Fleeting references through sub-headings and epigraphs to Haitian vodou relate the story to a wider web of African retentions through the Francophone Caribbean.
--Marshal Zeringue Sunday, October 17, 2021 Pg. 99: Alessandra Tanesini's "The Mismeasure of the Self"Featured at the Page 99 Test: The Mismeasure of the Self: A Study in Vice Epistemology by Alessandra Tanesini.
About the book , from the publisher:
The Mismeasure of the Self is dedicated to vices that blight many lives. They are the vices of superiority, characteristic of those who feel entitled, superior and who have an inflated opinion of themselves, and those of inferiority, typical of those who are riddled with self-doubt and feel inferior. Arrogance, narcissism, haughtiness, and vanity are among the first group. Self-abasement, fatalism, servility, and timidity exemplify the second. This book shows these traits to be to vices of self-evaluation and describes their pervasive harmful effects in some detail. Even though the influence of these traits extends to any aspect of life, the focus of this book is their damaging impact on the life of the intellect. Tanesini develops and defends a view of these vices that puts vicious motivations at their core. The analyses developed in this work build on empirical research in attitude psychology and on philosophical theories in virtue ethics and epistemology. The book concludes with a positive proposal for weakening vice and promoting virtue.Visit Alessandra Tanesini's website and blog.
The Page 99 Test: The Mismeasure of the Self.
--Marshal ZeringueFive books on troublesome Windsor womenWendy Holden has written numerous books and is a celebrated journalist. She lives in England.
Her latest novel is The Duchess.
At Lit Hib Holden tagged five top books on Troublesome Women in the House of Windsor. One title on the list:
Marion Crawford, The Little PrincessesRead about another entry on the list.
When this book fell off the shelf in a second-hand bookshop in the North of England, I picked it up to put it back. Then I opened it and read the first page in which Marion Crawford explains that she never intended to work for royalty; her interest was in the children of the Edinburgh slums. I was hooked right there and then and that was without even knowing she was with the King, Queen, and Princesses throughout the seismic events of the Abdication, Coronation, and the whole of World War II, all of which she saw exactly as they did. And yet the reward for her devotion was ostracism. Its an utterly incredible story and one I made into my 2020 novel The Royal Governess.
--Marshal Zeringue Saturday, October 16, 2021 Pg. 99: Kate Clifford Larson's "Walk With Me"Featured at the Page 99 Test: Walk with Me: A Biography of Fannie Lou Hamer by Kate Clifford Larson.
About the book, from the publisher:
She was born the 20th child in a family that had lived in the Mississippi Delta for generations, first as enslaved people and then as sharecroppers. She left school at 12 to pick cotton, as those before her had done, in a world in which white supremacy was an unassailable citadel. She was subjected without her consent to an operation that deprived her of children. And she was denied the most basic of all rights in Americathe right to cast a ballotin a state in which Blacks constituted nearly half the population.Visit Kate Clifford Larson's website.
And so Fannie Lou Hamer lifted up her voice. Starting in the early 1960s and until her death in 1977, she was an irresistible force, not merely joining the swelling wave of change brought by civil rights but keeping it in motion. Working with the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), which recruited her to help with voter-registration drives, Hamer became a community organizer, women's rights activist, and co-founder of the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party. She summoned and used what she had against the citadelher anger, her courage, her faith in the Bible, and her conviction that hearts could be won over and injustice overcome. She used her brutal beating at the hands of Mississippi police, an ordeal from which she never fully recovered, as the basis of a televised speech at the 1964 Democratic Convention, a speech that the mainstream partyincluding its standard-bearer, President Lyndon Johnsontried to contain. But Fannie Lou Hamer would not be held back. For those whose lives she touched and transformed, for those who heard and followed her voice, she was the embodiment of protest, perseverance, and, most of all, the potential for revolutionary change.
Kate Clifford Larson's biography of Fannie Lou Hamer is the most complete ever written, drawing on recently declassified sources on both Hamer and the civil rights movement, including unredacted FBI and Department of Justice files. It also makes full use of interviews with Civil Rights activists conducted by the Smithsonian and the Library of Congress, and Democratic National Committee archives, in addition to extensive conversations with Hamer's family and with those with whom she worked most closely. Stirring, immersive, and authoritative, Walk with Me does justice to Fannie Lou Hamer's life, capturing in full the spirit, and the voice, that led the fight for freedom and equality in America at its critical moment.
The Page 99 Test: Walk with Me.
--Marshal ZeringueFour books featuring paintings that illuminate their charactersKatie Lattari is the author of two novels, Dark Things I Adore (2021), her thriller debut, and American Vaudeville (2016), a small press work. Her short stories have appeared in such places as NOO Journal, The Bend, Cabildo Quarterly, and more. She lives in Maine with her husband Kevin and Alex the cat.
At CrimeReads Lattari tagged four books featuring paintings that reveal emotional truths about their characters. One title on the list:
Duma Key by Stephen King (2008)Read about another entry on the list.
After a physically devastating freak accident at a construction site and the collapse of his marriage, Edgar Freemantle moves from Minnesota to Florida in an attempt to heal. Part of his recovery process involves taking up a passion long set aside sketching and painting. As Edgar gets more into his art, it becomes clear that something else is getting into his art as wellsomething dark, and dangerousmaybe even deadly.
An evil spirit on Duma Key has infiltrated his works, spurred on by the traumatic past and memories of one of Dumas other residents, Elizabeth Eastlake. Edgar soon realizes that through this haunting of his works by the entity Persephone, anyone who is in possession of one of his paintings either dies or kills someone close to him, and it becomes the fight of his life to exorcise this demon from Duma and his work.
At first, Edgar thinks his unique, hard-to-explain paintings are showing premonitions of a reality to come, but soon he realizes that the paintings might be influencing reality itself. Edgars works both anticipate and precipitate dark events, his art at times the tipping point between life and death. Instead of capturing a fleeting moment in time, like Lily Briscoe, Edgar is given an incredible power: a kind of mastery over a form of fate and legacy, his works able to manifest what comes next. Who lives, who dies, and what will remain.
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