Reviewed by Dennis Ray Historian Geoffry C. Ward and filmmaker Ken Burns have put together a compelling and informative book with “The Vietnam War,” which is also a 10-part, 18-hour…
Interview with ‘NY Times’ bestselling author Wiley Cash on his latest novel ‘The Last Ballad’
Interview by Dennis Ray New York Times bestselling author Wiley Cash returns with a new novel, set in the Appalachian foothills of NC in 1929 and inspired by actual events….
Wiley Cash talks Tuesday, October 3, UNC Asheville Lipinsky Hall (On UNC Campus) 7PM in Conversation with Charles Frazier
The Last Ballad Twelve times a week, twenty-eight-year-old Ella May Wiggins makes the two-mile trek to and from her job at American Mill No. 2 in Bessemer City, NC. The…
Denise Kiernan signs her book on the Biltmore House Sept 26 at Malaprop’s Bookstore
On September 26, Denise Kiernan’s signs her book THE LAST CASTLE: The Epic Story of Love, Loss, and American Royalty in the Nation’s Largest Home at Malaprop’s Bookstore (55 Haywood…
The Changeling by Victor LaValle looks at fatherhood in 2017
The Changeling **** (4 Stars out of five) Review by Dennis Ray The Changeling by Victor LaValle, offers great enjoyment if you know a little bit about the story before…
Debut Novelist Delivers Her Promise To Schizophrenic Genius
Gradle Bird by J.C. Sasser Explores Bullying Gone Bad Signing and reading from debut Southern Gothic novel, Gradle Bird, at the end of this month on August 31, 7pm at Malaprop’s…
‘The Tragedy of Brady Sims’ a new novel by Ernest J. Gaines
***** (Five Stars) The Tragedy of Brady Sims by Ernest J. Gaines Read by JD Jackson, Danny Campbell Ernest J. Gaines’s new novella about a courthouse shooting that leads a…
Get healthy and eat some of the best meals doing it
***** (out of 5) Review by Dennis Ray This January I got sick. Not the flu though at first I thought it might have been. Toward the end of the…
‘Minecraft: The Island’ is a fantastic book (Book Review)
**** (Four Stars out of Five) Reviewed by Dennis Ray Minecraft: The Island is the first official Minecraft novel, and the audio version consists of two separate editions. One is…