Daisy Buchanan’s Daughter – A Novel by Tom Carson

On June 26, 2011, in Book Reviews, Fiction, by Wilfried F. Voss

She was born during the Jazz Age and grew up in Paris and the American Midwest after her father’s death on the polo field and her mother’s later suicide. As a young war reporter, she waded ashore on Omaha Beach and witnessed the liberation of Dachau. She spent the 1950s hobnobbing in Hollywood with Marlene Dietrich and Gene Kelly. She went to West Africa as an Ambassador’s wife as Jack Kennedy’s Camelot dawned.

Untold Story: A Princess Diana Novel by Monica Ali

On June 14, 2011, in Book Reviews, Fiction, by Wilfried F. Voss

When Princess Diana died in Paris’s Alma tunnel, she was thirty-seven years old. Had she lived, she would turn fifty on July 1, 2011. Who would the beloved icon be if she were alive today? What would she be doing? And where? One of the most versatile and bold writers of our time, Monica Ali has imagined a different fate for Diana in her spectacular new novel, Untold Story.

Built of Books: How Reading Defined the Life of Oscar Wilde

On January 24, 2011, in Book Reviews, Writing & Publishing, Writing Tips, by Wilfried F. Voss

This intimate account of Oscar Wilde’s life and writings is richer, livelier, and more personal than any book available about the brilliant writer, revealing a man who built himself out of books. His library was his reality, the source of so much that was vital to his life. A reader first, his readerly encounters, out of all of life’s pursuits, are seen to be as significant as his most important relationships with friends, family, or lovers. Wilde’s library, which Thomas Wright spent twenty years reading, provides the intellectual (and emotional) climate at the core of this deeply engaging portrait.

Victoria Beckham As Co-Host on "The View"…?

On February 20, 2010, in Neurotica, by Wilfried F. Voss

Well, it was back on January 31, 2010 when my wife broke the news to me during breakfast while she was reading the local newspaper. “Your girlfriend is scheduled to co-host ‘The View’,” she told me, hiding her grin behind the paper. “Veronica?” I asked, decently surprised. “Yes,” she answered, “Victoria Beckham, indeed.”