Latest Jackie Flowers thriller jabs at justices, journalists By Leigh E. Rich Extreme Indifference By Stephanie Kane Scribner November 2003 304 pages $23.00 Criminal defense attorney Jackie Flowers has little going for her. She left her job at the Public Defender’s office amidst scandal, lost her boyfriend of three years, can’t make the rent on […]
10.31.2003
Remembering Emmett Louis Till By Leigh E. Rich Death of Innocence: The Story of the Hate Crime That Changed America By Mamie Till-Mobley and Christopher Benson One World/Ballantine December 2004 320 pages In 1976, Mamie Till-Mobley witnessed the unveiling of a statue of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. in Denver’s City Park. In the sculpture, […]
09.11.2003
Dubbed fast-food fiction, ‘Tales of the Conspiracy Café’ gets stuck in the throat By Leigh E. Rich Tales of the Conspiracy Café: Barcelona By Lee Shainen The Patrice Press $9.95 Misogyny, thy name is Shainen. Ah, there are so many ways one could critique what local author Lee Shainen has dubbed “fast-food fiction” with his […]
08.15.2003
A glimpse into the lives of the Poor Clares By Leigh E. Rich Stalking the Divine: Contemplating Faith With the Poor Clares By Kristin Ohlson Theia August 2003 272 pages 23.95 When she was alive, my 98-year-old Jewish grandmother used to say that though she never doubted the existence of God, she was sure he’s […]
06.27.2003
Categories: Books, Health, History, Science, Utrinque Paratus | Comments Off on Slow death of a monster
Arizona author documents historical battle By Leigh E. Rich The Speckled Monster: A Historical Tale of Battling Smallpox By Jennifer Lee Carrell Dutton June 2003 451 pages $24.95 Today, 23 years after the World Health Organization confirmed the worldwide eradication of smallpox, there are only two places one might bump into the Variola virus that […]
02.28.2003
Teacher treasures tenure among Kosovo Albanians By Leigh E. Rich The Hemingway Book Club of Kosovo By Paula Huntley Jeremy P. Tarcher/Putnam February 10, 2003 256 pages $22.95 Ernest Hemingway, known for the brash, adventurous way in which he lived his life as well as the acclaimed stories he wrote, needs no introduction—not even half […]
06.07.2002
Author Carolyn Slaughter, Africa, come of age in memoir ‘Before the Knife’ By Leigh E. Rich Before the Knife: Memoirs of an African Childhood By Carolyn Slaughter Alfred a Knopf Inc. January 2002 Though born in India to English parents and admittedly influenced by American fiction, there could be no other homeland for novelist Carolyn […]
04.19.2002
Categories: Books, People, Politics, Religion, Utrinque Paratus | Comments Off on A timely tale of revenge
Giving peace a chance By Leigh E. Rich Kalandia, West Bank. “‘That’s him,’ the woman said, pointing over her grandchildren’s heads. I followed her finger to the wall, to the shooter’s photograph, saw his face for the first time, and sank into the couch. ‘He tried to kill someone,’ she said in an easy voice. […]
02.20.2002
… à la Dorothy Parker By Leigh E. Rich Hate. À la Mrs. Dorothy Parker. Certainly, it goes without saying, no one—man or woman—could craft such lovely hate poems as the irascible Parker. For those who know only of her rabidly biting sayings (“Men seldom make passes at girls who wear glasses”) and equally feral […]
02.08.2002
An interdisciplinary romp with a professor of pathology By Leigh E. Rich Faith, Madness and Spontaneous Human Combustion: What Immunology Can Teach Us About Self-Perception By Gerald N. Callahan, Ph.D. A Thomas Dunne Book for St. Martin’s Press January 2002 256 pages $23.95 Who came first, the pathologist or the poet? The world may never […]
