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In Literary Lagniappe we share extra tidbits about our experiences as writers and other sundry musings.

Crossing Over by S.B. Alexander – Defining the New Adult Genre

Amy Wilhelm
Literary Lagniappe
Genres are usually fairly self-explanatory: Mysteries have mystery, romances contain love stories, nonfiction is, well, nonfiction. But “Young Adult” and “New Adult” aren’t as easily categorized. There are simi... Read More...

The Hope and Anchor: Author Interview/Book Review of Julia Kite’s Debut Novel

Maribel Garcia
Literary Lagniappe
 Angela Archer, last seen on 18 December, is 24 years old, five foot nine inches tall and of proportionate build, with green eyes. She has dyed blonde hair with brown roots. She has lived in West London her ent... Read More...

Is the Key to Being Resilient, Keeping Hope Realistic? An Interview with Memoirist, Rebecca Faye Smith Galli

Maribel Garcia
Book Club Questions, Interviews, Memoir, on Writing, Reviews
In this memoir, we meet Becky Galli. We are first introduced to the author's life while she is safely ensconced in a pretty idyllic 1960s southern upbringing-complete with the pastor father and a stay-at-ho... Read More...

Trepidation, Dread and Discovery of Memoir By Susan G. Weidener

Susan Weidener
Memoir, on Creativity, on Writing
As I listen to writers in a memoir workshop I’m leading about writing difficult subjects; I think how we share this in common. We’re on a journey of self-exploration … survivors who seek transformation and will... Read More...

Popular: The Power of Likability in a Status-Obsessed World by Mitch Prinstein

Maribel Garcia
Book Club Profiles, Book Club Questions, Interviews, on Books
What matters? Waking up with general good health? Hot water in the shower? That first mug of coffee in the morning? The knowledge that you have a roof over your head? Or is popularity? Our desire to be liked an... Read More...

Best Books of 2017

Kristin Jacobson
Best of 2017, Literary Lagniappe, on Books, Reviews
Our talented literary critics share their top choices of the year. Tabitha's Top Picks: The Next, Stephanie Gangi's debut novel, combines a page-turning thriller with the deep, complicated relationships typic... Read More...

Is Memoir Vanity or An Act of Love? By Susan G. Weidener

Susan Weidener
Memoir, on Creativity, on Writing
Not everyone understands why some write their memoirs. They dismiss it as narcissistic vanity. Why write something so personal they ask? Who cares? Stories are my passion, so I am biased that writing memoir,... Read More...

Family Myths and the Memoir Writer by Susan G. Weidener

Susan Weidener
Memoir, on Writing
The memoir writer has the unenviable task of breaking through the family myths to get to the heart of her story and the people who populate it. Too often we bow “to the legend,” as Virginia Woolf writes in her ... Read More...

I Ran into Monica Lewinsky Recently and Learned Something…

Maribel Garcia
Literary Lagniappe
There I was, trying to think of ways that Book Club Babble could raise awareness about bullying since October is National Bullying Prevention Month. I started to mentally put together a list of painfully honest... Read More...

Under a Sardinian Sky – An Interview with Sara Alexander

Tabitha Lord
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Mina, a London-based travel writer, returns to her family's home in Sardinia to bury an aunt. With her mother also gravely ill, she worries that her family's history will be lost as the last of that generation ... Read More...
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