by Do South | Sep 1, 2018 | Books
[title subtitle=”review: Marla Cantrell”][/title] By Anne Tyler Alfred A. Knopf | 292 pages | $27 Anne Tyler, a Pulitzer Prize-winning literary icon, takes the ordinary lives of ordinary people and lifts them so high they become ethereal. This is...
by Do South | Sep 1, 2016 | People
[title subtitle=”words: Marla Cantrell images: Marla Cantrell and courtesy Debbie Foliart”][/title] Debbie Foliart sits at a table inside Chapters on Main in Van Buren, Arkansas, and looks out the window that faces the Old Frisco Depot. Soon, tourists will...
by Do South | Aug 1, 2015 | Books
[title subtitle=”review: Marla Cantrell”][/title] Frances, from Manhattan, is fresh out of college and on the heels of a breakup. To get away from her troubles she travels to Lofoten, a clutch of six small islands in the Norwegian Sea, just ninety-five...
by Do South | Feb 1, 2015 | Books
[title subtitle=”review: Anita Paddock”][/title] by Celeste Ng Penguin Press, 292 pages: $2695 The title alone tells you this book is about secrets. And that immediately makes a reader curious. So when you take it from the shelf at the book store or the...
by Do South | Jan 1, 2015 | Books
[title subtitle=”review: Anita Paddock”][/title] by Jane Smiley Alfred Knopf, Publisher, 395 pages:$2799 January is a good month to read Some Luck by Jane Smiley. It’s a long book, which is just the right kind for winter days when staying inside seems...
