Steal the Menu, A Culinary Memoir of Forty Years in Food by Raymond Sokolov

Four decades of memories from a gastronome who witnessed the food revolution from the (well-provisioned) trenches—a delicious tour through contemporary food history. Steal the Menu is, above all, an entertaining and engaging account of a tumultuous period of globalizing food ideas and frontier-crossing ingredients that produced the unprecedentedly rich and diverse way of eating we enjoy today.

Farming out babies – Essay by British Author Peter Carroll

On May 6, 2013, in Guest Writers, Peter Carroll, by Peter Carroll

Women like the ruthless Charlotte Windsor ran a contemptuous business in taking in young children and babies for the sum of 3s a week, she ‘farmed’ out her own son having first resisted Mrs Winsor’s offer to smother him, but when she was unable to keep up her payments she stood by and watched Mrs Winsor smother her baby and wrap his naked body in an old newspaper.

The End of Sookie… The Beginning of Sabrina by Vampire Author Lorelei Bell

On May 6, 2013, in Guest Writers, Lorelei Bell, by Editor

I remember when I first laid eyes on a Sookie Stackhouse novel. There were about four or five books in the series out at the time. I had to wonder how the heck I never came across them before. I found them on the shelf of Borders back in 2006.

Country Girl: A Great Fiction Writer’s Life by Edna O’Brien

On April 30, 2013, in Biographies & Memoirs, Book Reviews, Nonfiction, by Editor

The courageous and poetic narrative of a great fiction writer’s life, seen from the vantage point of eight decades, brilliant and sensuous, Country Girl is a book we are fortunate that Edna O’Brien decided to write.

Good and Bad Things About Mobile Cell Phones – Thoughts by Author Peter Carroll

On April 15, 2013, in Guest Writers, Peter Carroll, by Peter Carroll

Once upon a time soap writers invariable derived many if their plots from general conversation, but nowadays it is so very much easier given the ever growing popularity of the mobile phone.

Sabrina Strong on Killing Demons and Vampires by Author Lorelei Bell

On April 5, 2013, in Guest Writers, Lorelei Bell, by Lorelei Bell

Hi. My name is Sabrina Strong, I’m a touch clairvoyant, and that’s not all. I’m a sibyl. My job? I’m supposed to take out demons, vampires and off-spring of Nephilim. But you know, it’s a bit hard when your friends are vampires. Well, not all my friends are vampires, of course. And a few vampires have become my enemies. And one certain off-spring of of Nephilim is trying to hit on me. But I’m here to talk about demons and vampires today.

I Await the Devil’s Coming, The Shocking and Intellectually Challenging Diary of Mary MacLane

On April 5, 2013, in Biographies & Memoirs, Book Reviews, History, Nonfiction, by Editor

Mary MacLane’s I Await the Devil’s Coming is a shocking, brave and intellectually challenging diary of a 19-year-old girl living in Butte, Montana in 1902. Written in potent, raw prose that propelled the author to celebrity upon publication, the book has become almost completely forgotten.

Robert Kett, Unsung Hero of the Past – An Essay by British Author Peter Carroll

On March 31, 2013, in Guest Writers, Peter Carroll, by Peter Carroll

I am enthralled by English Tudor history and researching for my new book is no mean task. Like the subject of my first book, Queen of Misfortune namely; Lady Jane Grey, Robert Kett’s demise was the result of injustice.

Mom & Me & Mom, A Memoir About Life With Her Mother by Maya Angelou

On March 29, 2013, in Art & Literature, Biographies & Memoirs, Book Reviews, Nonfiction, by Editor

Delving into one of her life’s most rich, rewarding, and fraught relationships, Mom & Me & Mom explores the healing and love that evolved between the two women over the course of their lives, the love that fostered Maya Angelou’s rise from immeasurable depths to reach impossible heights.

The Start of a New Book I May be Calling “Kett’s War” by British Author Peter Carroll

On March 25, 2013, in Guest Writers, Peter Carroll, by Peter Carroll

In his research of that time, Moyer discovered a man of outstanding integrity, a man who devoted his later life to fight for justice despite the odds. His name was Robert Kett.