Posts tagged

"1950s "

August 16, 2012

An Unbeatable Lesson via Elizabeth Letts’ The Eighty-Dollar Champion

Elizabeth Letts, author of The Eighty-Dollar Champion, talks about reviving the unlikely but true story of a horse with a hidden talent and a poor man with a big dream, who together became a legend.

July 5, 2012

Where the Disturbed Folks Roam: Donald Ray Pollock’s The Devil All the Time

Powerful, imaginative, provocative, disturbing ...and grotesque; here is a novel with characters so rich, the plot is almost secondary.