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Tuesday, February 22, 2011
His new book, "Trailblazing Mars," is a combination of history and prognostication. Duggins recounts our longtime powerful inte..
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Tuesday, February 22, 2011
Rice is factual, but somewhat remote and, to no one's surprise, maintains mostly a tone one might call cool. Anyone searching fo..
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Tuesday, February 22, 2011
Randy Roberts, who has also written biographies of fighters Jack Johnson and Jack Dempsey, has done a beautiful of laying out th..
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Tuesday, February 22, 2011
William Cobb has published seven volumes of fiction and has won Alabama's Harper Lee Award for Distinguished Fiction. This nove..
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Tuesday, February 22, 2011
It seems to me in fact that in this novel the love affair is much more with Mountain Brook and English Village and the view from..
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Tuesday, February 22, 2011
"What They Always Tell Us" is a first novel, marketed as a "young adult" book . The story is told in a straightforward, clear an..
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Tuesday, February 22, 2011
In this novel, "Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter" we have an exploration of the issue of race in Mississippi that certainly brings..
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Tuesday, February 22, 2011
As Camille Elebash explains in her Foreword, Alline Van Duzor was brought to Tuscaloosa from Atlanta in 1946 to manage the then-..
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Tuesday, February 22, 2011
This is an eclectic and eccentric little book, put together, one is sure, over time from bits Kelly Kazek, managing editor of t..
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Tuesday, February 22, 2011
"The Warmth of Other Suns" is a detailed study of that enormous migration. Isabel Wilkerson, who is already the first black woma..
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Tuesday, February 22, 2011
Clyde Bolton is one of Alabama's best-known and admired writers. His new book, "Hadacol Days," seems much less edgy, lively and ..
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Friday, February 18, 2011
"Billion-Dollar Kiss" gives a long, knowledgeable insider's look into the lunatic bin known as the Writers Room, glimpsed in "30..
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Friday, February 18, 2011
As all who know him will attest, Wayne Greenhaw is one of Alabama's best storytellers. In "Fighting the Devil in Dixie," Greenha..
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Friday, February 18, 2011
Allen Barra, a Birmingham native and the author of books on his kinsman Yogi Berra and "The Last Coach," Paul "Bear" Bryant, beg..
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Friday, February 18, 2011
Pat Conroy might be the most dedicated reader of any novelist, living or dead. This volume is a kind of memoir, structured aroun..
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