It’s federal budget time and, as usual, the National Endowment for the Arts is under attack. Their heads filled with images of obscene art, effete gallery-goers and overtaxed single mothers, conservatives are gunning for the straight-out elimination of the 50 year old program. No money, no arts funding. Period. No matter that the $148 million […]
Archives for April 2017
George Fell Was a ‘Force of Nature’
We know the name of the man who threatens the future of the conserved and preserved natural lands in the United States, but few can name the man who launched the Nature Conservancy and sparked the entire Natural Areas Movement. Arthur Melville Pearson’s Force of Nature chronicles the life of George Fell. A complex and at […]
‘Grown-Up Anger’ Looks at Labor History
Grown-up Anger: The Connected Mysteries of Bob Dylan, Woody Guthrie, and the Calumet Massacre of 1913 is an exciting romp through labor union history. The book, which will be released June 13, explores its subject through the lens of American music. Bob Dylan and Woody Guthrie’s protest and solidarity songs, and how they represent the […]
Do Writers Have “Moral Rights”?
The idea that writers have “moral” rights with respect to our written work may seem strange to those who think of copyright in purely propertarian terms. They might wonder: What does morality have to do with property ownership? But our writing is more than intellectual property, and our rights to our work are more than […]
‘Dunes’ Novel Inspired by Windswept Landscape
Homeport Press just published Our Lady of the Dunes, my coming-of-age novel, which takes place amid the dunes of the OuterCape of Provincetown, MA, in 1942. The dunes run along the beach nearly 40 miles, from Chatham to Provincetown, and just above them are bluffs that overlook the Atlantic Ocean. My story is of a young woman who’s sent out from Boston to live […]
Sherwood Back With 3rd ‘Murdery Delicious’ Book
The Chalmers brothers have returned in The Murdery Delicious Blood Stone Secret, the devastating finale of The Murdery Delicious trilogy. In the latest installment, the siblings are a little older, possibly a little wiser, and undoubtedly more terrified. As the latest mystery unfolds, a breezy summer getaway at their newly restored ancestral home quickly becomes a crawl through the […]
‘Beyond $15’: Possibilities in Reimagined Labor Movement
Sarah Mohamoud was once a seven-year-old Somali girl who had to hide in the bed of a truck, narrowly escaping her country’s civil war by crossing the Kenyan border. Assadollah Valibeigi struggled to make a living as a taxi driver and merchant in Iran’s politically chaotic capital city. Mohamed Kadhim and his family fled bombings in Iraq, only […]
Mathieu’s Latest Novel Is “Women Under Siege”
Women Under Siege sends a timely message to women (and men) who are used to giving a blind eye to the culture of misogyny. Nora Bookbinder has good reason to fear the inherent nature of men’s warring and raping and chooses to remain single. But in her late thirties, passion strikes, and she goes off to […]
Cruel But Not Unusual: Mumia’s Treatment Delayed
Mumia Abu-Jamal received a cruel mix of bad and good news from a prison doctor on March 31. The doctor shared the results of his recent lab test, which showed clear signs of cirrhosis, an irreversible scarring of the liver caused by his untreated Hep C. The doctor also informed Mumia that he would be […]
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