Author of The Reversible Mask
Dear Friends and Readers, nothing keeps us down for long. These diners are about to tuck into soggy eggs and muffins, the coffee diluted by rain.. An update on me: I had simultaneous surgeries on my right shoulder and left forearm so will take a short break from blogging as I recover. All will be …
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Lovely bit of praise from Darcie Rowan!
Loretta Goldberg Moderates this Zoom Book Launch Event: Authors Mary Calvi; Julieta Almeida Rodrigues; Michelle Cameron.
Welcome to my website, Julieta. What a thrill to see Eleonora and Joseph published, and with such an inspired cover! A bit about your background for my readers and friends who don’t know you: you bring extraordinary personal experience to this novel. You depict intriguing historical characters of the Enlightenment in Southern Europe. You came …
MICHELLE CAMERON talks about her new prize-winning novel Beyond the Ghetto Gates. Welcome to my website. I am so happy you’ll be on our next HNS Published Writers series, June 30 at 6.00 pm, even if it is Zoom. Thank you. Michelle, at my high school we learned about Napoleon in Northern Europe, Spain, Egypt, …
Book reviews of Atlantic High by William F. Buckley Jr. (Little, Brown and Company, 1982), and Lexicon of Musical Invective by Nicholas Slonimsky (University of Washington, 1965). Buckley and Slonimsky were leading intellectuals of the twentieth century. Buckley was a conservative political theorist, author, TV anchor and editor of The National Review, while Slonimsky was …
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I Really Am Person of the Week, Valley Courier, April 1 Edition! Lockdown selfie taken from the living room up here:
Dear Friends and Readers, Today I want to tell you about a meditative sound experience that for me is made for our present homebound anxieties. Disclaimer: I took a composition course with Ruth Anderson for my MA degree in Music Performance at Hunter College. I received an ARC MP3 from the producer. Here is a …
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Dear Friends and Readers, I am thrilled to share this thoughtful interview by author Joshua Ian. Please enjoy.
THAN THE 1868 PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGN BY VICTORIA WOODHULL TO BE THE FIRST WOMAN PRESIDENT? Ulysses S. Grant? Horatio Seymour? They don’t faze Victoria. Women don’t even have the vote. But Victoria has a mission to enlighten the entire population at a moment, just after the civil war, when everything seemed possible. Naked Truth, Carrie Hayes’s …
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