Happy Wednesday! This week, we’re sharing some thrilling podcast news, talking about time and place settings we’d like to see in more books, and reviewing Attica Locke’s new mystery Pleasantville. You can listen to the podcast in the embedded player below or download the file directly to take with you on the go. Episode 43 Links of interest Vulture reports on JK Rowling’s non-prequel play. The Vox article about leading slavery tours at a plantation. Books mentioned (those that have been reviewed in this space are linked to the review): Ada or Ardor, Vladimir Nabokov (podcast readalong!) The Cutting Season, Attica…
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Oh wonderful Attica Locke! If only I had read The Cutting Season after Difficult Men rather than before! Attica Locke would have been a wonderful antidote to the maddening failure of representation. The protagonist of The Cutting Season (affiliate links: Amazon, B&N, Book Depository), Caren Gray, has come back to work and live at the Louisiana plantation where her mother was a cook and her multi-great grandparents were slaves. She manages all of the plantation operations, from tours (complete with a rose-colored play about antebellum life at Belle Vie) to events — Belle Vie is a popular location for weddings…
17 CommentsSooooooooo. This is mixed. Not mixed in the way like that everything about it was neutral to me. Mixed in the way that some things about it were neutral to me, some things about it I loved so, so hard, and all of me thinks Attica Locke’s second book sounds m.f. amazing and I want to read it. I realize that is a very specific kind of mixed, but I want y’all to know exactly where my head’s at. Jay Porter is a lawyer and one-time civil rights worker in 1980s Houston. When he and his pregnant wife help out…
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