I’m an author of books on Shakespeare and Renaissance Drama, a Professor of English at Central Michigan University, a mother, a knitter, a reader, a reviewer of historical novels, and the property of an exceedingly fine cat indeed.
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Book Reviews of 2020, pt. 2
Another favorite, reviewed in the November 2019 issue of Historical Novels Review — Sarah Donati’s Where the Light Enters (Berkeley, 2019): This long, absorbing novel is the sequel to Donati’s enthusiastically received The Gilded Hour, a multi-family epic centered on the lives of Anna and Sophie Savard, cousins who attempt to further the cause of medical […]
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Book Reviews of 2020
The final 40 days of this unprecedented — and for many of us, unprecedentedly awful — year are upon us. It’s also the close of my sabbatical semester, one activity of which has been getting this blog and website up and running again. I thought I’d make it easy on myself by starting out with […]
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Interview with Gregory Maguire
I had the pleasure of interviewing bestselling author Gregory Maguire for a feature on his new novel, A Wild Winter Swan, for November 2020 issue of Historical Novels Review. You can read it here: Re-Imagining New York: Gregory Maguire’s Novel, A Wild Winter Swan
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