tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-43044606643104365002026-09-09T13:43:17.232-07:00RICH TEXTSBOOK REVIEWS AND INTERVIEWSUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger153125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4304460664310436500.post-47041833420828138562026-09-09T09:00:20.920-07:002026-09-09T09:01:10.664-07:00THE GREENGAGE SUMMER Rich Text is about to emerge from its dormancy. Its next post will feature Rumer Godden's The Greengage Summer, a coming of age story set in France's Champagne country, by the river Marne. Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4304460664310436500.post-41780916572359784922024-12-08T13:13:00.000-08:002024-12-09T08:37:18.896-08:00REBUILDING A LIFE CABIN is a St. Martin's Press title At the center of Patrick Hutchinson’s Cabin, are his hunger to live meaningfully and his need to exchange a dreary, soul-killing job in the city for physically and intellectually satisfying work. This he found the process of rehabbing a decrepit cabin in the heart of a forest. At the time, Hutchinson worked as aUnknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4304460664310436500.post-52561490416164851082023-11-04T10:38:00.003-07:002024-11-17T11:35:43.927-08:00A TREASURE TROVE OF JEWISH FICTIONAlthough the themes of these stories are timeless and universal, this book is eminently suited for Hannukah gift lists. Dr. Nora Gold, Founder and Editor of the literary journal Jewish Fiction.net, has assembled an impressive collection of stories beautifully translated into English from 18 languages. First among these is the eerely prescient ''Hostage,'' excerpted from a novel Unknownnoreply@blogger.com085GJW6H2+R840.929595 -107.799229512.891296291585228 -142.9554795 68.967893708414778 -72.6429795tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4304460664310436500.post-74245044915833489912023-11-01T15:23:00.002-07:002023-11-01T15:27:14.520-07:00CHERCHEZ MOMZILLA
Van Gogh's Weeping Woman sitting on a Basket, Van Gogh Museum VINCENT’S
WOMEN: THE UNTOLD STORY OF THE LOVES OF VINCENT VAN GOGH
BY
DONNA RUSSO, MARCH, 2024
Bestselling author Donna Russo
researched the life, letters, and work of Vincent Van Gogh for three
years. While her 423-page novel, Vincent's Women: The Untold Story of the Loves of Unknownnoreply@blogger.com048R8+29 Negebare, Papua New Guinea-6.8599688 144.315875-35.170202636178843 109.159625 21.450265036178845 179.472125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4304460664310436500.post-78023834233966185922023-08-21T17:58:00.003-07:002023-08-21T18:37:22.226-07:00RICHTEXTS REVIVALArt by Adrien Jean Madiol After a long hiatus, richtexts will return by Halloween 2023. Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4304460664310436500.post-29418299004483871192021-06-10T11:15:00.003-07:002021-06-10T11:17:16.020-07:00A UNPALATABLE MIX OF SILLINESS AND RACISM
Espresso Shot
A Coffeehouse Mystery, Book 7
By:
Cleo Coyle
Narrated by:
Rebecca Gibel
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4304460664310436500.post-62204900145924677162018-09-14T14:10:00.000-07:002018-09-14T14:10:00.917-07:00INTERVIEW WITH AUTHOR WALTER ECHO-HAWK
Author Walter Echo-Hawk, Fulcrum Press.
Q. If you could, would you change in the history of the Pawnee Nation?
A. If a change in Pawnee history were possible, my wish would be: That the Pawnee were able to remain in Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4304460664310436500.post-34621945318821139342018-09-02T11:58:00.002-07:002018-09-02T11:58:35.500-07:00COMING UPInterview with author Walter Echo-Hawk.
Review of RIOT DAYS, by Maria Alyohina
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4304460664310436500.post-80187445124302891832018-09-01T13:01:00.000-07:002018-09-01T13:09:51.138-07:00CHILDREN OF THE STARS
I confess that, much to my shame, I knew zero about the Pawnee Nation until I came across Walter Echo-Hawk's THE SEA OF GRASS: A FAMILY TALE FROM THE AMERICA HEARTLAND. An attorney, writer, and activist, Echo-Hawk is one of the rare Americans who can rightly claim that his ancestral roots in the New World reach back to 1250. The fictionalized history of Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4304460664310436500.post-83156574783544869862018-07-31T12:19:00.001-07:002018-07-31T12:43:54.437-07:00A NEW BEGINNING
After a long pause, Rich Text returns to exciting work of reviewing books and interviewing authors and artists. Please stay tuned. Albert Camus, Leon Wirth, Sujata Massey, and Khaled Husseini are the authors whose works are on this blogger's bedside table, at the moment.
COMING UP--A review of THE SEA OF GRASS, by Walter R. Echo-Hawk, a book ''Inspired by real people and Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4304460664310436500.post-90365635087260563452016-11-17T14:42:00.001-08:002016-11-17T14:42:32.184-08:00COOKING ISTANBUL
Jason Goodwin, author of the delightful series that features Ottoman detectiveYashim, has published COOKING ISTANBUL, a collection of recipes from the Yashim novels. It is a beautifully designed volume with such lush photographs it could become a coffee table book if it were not for its clearly written recipes for delicious dishes.
Please click on the link below for NPR's Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4304460664310436500.post-85788398884200647042016-10-15T13:01:00.003-07:002016-10-15T13:01:57.653-07:00JASON GOODWIN'S YASHIM COOKS ISTANBULI am reposting Jason Goodwin's announcement of his Yashim cookbook. I have pre-ordered my copy. I recommend that readers consider it as a magnificennt Holiday--or any time--present.
Dear Yashimite (if I may),
Last week we took delivery of the first copies of Yashim Cooks Istanbul, the book designed to take you deeper into the world of Yashim's Ottoman adventuresUnknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4304460664310436500.post-76373818765919012162016-07-01T18:34:00.001-07:002016-07-01T18:34:08.566-07:00DANIEL SILVA SHARES THE FIRST CHAPTER OF BLACK WIDOWClick on the link to read the compelling first chapter of Daniel Silva's new novel, THE BLACK WIDOW. The book will be out on 12 July 2016. Mark your calendars. This promises to be an amazing read.
Daniel's Silva's new novel
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4304460664310436500.post-45135375516836067682016-03-22T17:29:00.001-07:002016-03-22T17:29:39.396-07:00LOVE AND WAR
If I boil down my list of what makes a good book, I am left with the following: clear, precise language, a well-designed plot, a memorable sense of place, engaging characters. Alan Furst’s A HERO OF FRANCE meets these standards. It is a story of French Resistance agents who help downed British pilots to return to Britain. That the salient characters are ordinary people whose bravery is devoid ofUnknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4304460664310436500.post-15523674485621704632016-03-11T12:15:00.000-08:002016-03-11T12:17:21.377-08:00THE SUMMER BEFORE THE WAR
THE SUMMER BEFORE THE WAR begins gently, the way good stories and good music do. Its opening paragraph situates young doctor Hugh Grange, one of its main characters, in the lovely English landscape, “The town of Rye rose from the flat marshes like an island, its tumbled pyramids of red-tiled roofs glowing in the slanting evening light.” Such an introduction is at odds with rules designed to Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4304460664310436500.post-86563210469784513502016-03-05T13:01:00.000-08:002016-03-05T13:01:52.777-08:00THE UNREADABLE
In my opinion, fiction writers rarely choose stories. I believe that more often than not, stories that demand to be told choose someone to tell them. Surely neither Andrew Vachs, Patricia Cornwell, nor other novelists whose works ooze blood and gore derive much pleasure from imagining vicious killers and their deeds. Publishers do derive pleasure from Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4304460664310436500.post-1924150218648437172016-02-14T15:54:00.000-08:002016-02-14T15:54:09.383-08:00MAKE PASSIONATE YOUR SENSE OF HEARING
Kobi Hagoel is a percussionist I hope to interview on this blog. Listen to his music and I think you will agree that it is lovely.
Click on the link hear samples from Kobi's album.
KOBI HAGOEL & KAV HATEFERUnknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4304460664310436500.post-89454494808536867252016-02-11T08:47:00.002-08:002016-02-11T08:47:40.126-08:00TEN QUESTIONS FOR SUSANNAH EANES
1.Which of the characters in LUCKY SOUTHERN WOMEN resembles you most?
There are elements of myself in both Phoebe and Sophie. Like Sophie, I'm a writer but I'm definitely not the crafty daredevil she is. Phoebe's thoughtful level-headedness is really more like me. At least I hope it is! When I was younger I was a little afraid to be alone, like Sophie, and I tended to think I needed aUnknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4304460664310436500.post-57770605542994762242016-02-11T08:43:00.002-08:002016-02-11T08:47:11.142-08:00ECSTASY IN SPITE OF IT ALL
To say that the main
characters and narrators in LUCKY SOUTHERN WOMEN, by Susannah Eannes,
are aspects of the same a duality is to risk stripping the story from
its rich complexity. Yet it is difficult to see Phoebe and Sophie
as irreducibly distinct. Friends since pre-adolescence, these two
Alabama natives evoke light and shade, fire and water, yin and ying.
They are, Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4304460664310436500.post-41717764612672524932016-02-10T14:42:00.000-08:002016-02-10T14:42:02.568-08:00UPCOMING EVENTS
Picsso's Tete d'unefemme lisent.
Review of Susannah Eanes's LUCKY SOUTHERN WOMEN and interview with the author.
Interview with Jason Goodwin, author of the Yashim crime novels.We will be talking about his new book, YASHIM'S ISTANBUL COOKBOOK.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4304460664310436500.post-61828640139997394152016-02-08T12:22:00.003-08:002016-02-08T12:25:32.655-08:00Testing, testing
Please click on link for sound clip.
Test 2
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4304460664310436500.post-8606982646401959722016-01-26T14:49:00.001-08:002016-01-26T16:18:15.772-08:00"WRITING IS NOT COOKING"
A good friend who spent time in Sicily led me to Andrea Camilleri’s Inspector Montalbano crime novels. As she had promised, I found THE SHAPE OF THE WATER, THE TERRACOTTA DOG, and THE SNACK THIEF delightful. These are cozies with an edge. Montalbano comes through crisply and clearly as a hero focused on solving crimes despite the paralysing rules of Italian bureaucracy. Neither Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4304460664310436500.post-61203424550478745592016-01-21T11:50:00.000-08:002016-01-21T11:50:11.738-08:00
When I got a copy of Mary Ellen Taylor's THE VIEW FROM PRINCE I thought it would transport me to Alexandra, Virginia, a place not too far from where I live. It is alovely section of Virginia and it has a longand rich history. surely that history included fascinating people. It was that place I hoped to see and those people I wanted to meet in tis novel. I read several chapters Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4304460664310436500.post-57793932871828829442015-12-20T12:46:00.001-08:002015-12-20T12:59:39.352-08:00A RENAISSANCE STAR SHINES BRIGHTLY
History was unkind
to Marguerite de Valois, daughter of France's queen Catherine de
Medicis. It condemned her along with her violent family
for the Saint Bartholomew Massacre. That event, which took place five days after
Marguerite's wedding to King Henri of Navarre, in August of 1572, precipitated France's
Wars of Religion during which Catholics slaughtered thousands Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4304460664310436500.post-77749847911358515032015-10-20T10:34:00.000-07:002015-10-20T10:40:10.182-07:00THE AMBASSADOR
Please click on on the link to learn more about this novel.
THE AMBASSADOR, by Yehuda Avner and Matt Rees
Anyone who is familiar with Matt's fiction and nonfiction books knows that he writes with rare elegance. THE AMBASSADOR, the counterhistoric thriller he wrote with the late Yehuda Avner, reaffirms these qualitiesMatt Rees talks about THE AMBASSADOR in The Huffington Post, once Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0