Book Stew features Butterfly Trap

Eileen MacDougal is one of those great interviewers who not only reads but thinks about the books she reads. I was honored to be her guest on Book Stew. (If you don’t want to see the YouTube video, you can listen to the podcast on Soundcloud here.)

E. Jean Carroll’s triumph

No, not the civil case(s) she has won against Donald Trump. I’m talking about her hilarious and brilliant new book, Not My Type: One Woman vs. a President. I reviewed it for the Arts Fuse (which is not paywalled and has a ton of great criticism and arts news)....

James Lee Burke!

Fans of author James Lee Burke and, especially, his Hackberry Holland books, will want to pick up Don’t Forget Me, Little Bessie, his latest – and the first he’s written from a female perspective. I reviewed this sprawling new novel in the ArtsFuse this...