by Carol Jane Morrison | Oct 24, 2017 | Book Reviews
“Dispatches From Pluto” by Richard Grant Ed (my Seattle native husband who lived in Mississippi for fifteen years), has long insisted that my native deep South is a foreign country. I’ve told him no it is not either, you better stop saying that, you...
by Carol Jane Morrison | Oct 24, 2017 | Essays, The Biblio File
The Biblio File October 2017 Essay: “The Tingler” THE TINGLER October and pumpkins on porches and cottony ghosts wisping from trees and the Facebook post, “What movie terrified you as a child?” I didn’t have to think. No contest: The Tingler. I was...
by Carol Jane Morrison | Sep 18, 2017 | Essays, The Biblio File
The Biblio File September 2017 Essay: “Shattered” SHATTERED When I tell people that, for six years in the eighties, I taught psychology at an historically black college near Jackson, Mississippi, they often say, “So you got to feel what it’s like to be a...
by Carol Jane Morrison | Sep 18, 2017 | Book Reviews
“Commonwealth” by Ann Patchett After reading memoir for awhile, I was hungry for a novel, and COMMONWEALTH was on my recommended Kindle list. I bought it on impulse. It didn’t take long to see I’d spend a lot of time figuring out (or being...
by Carol Jane Morrison | Aug 17, 2017 | Essays, The Biblio File
The Biblio File August 2017 Essay: “Let Us Be True” LET US BE TRUE I used to wonder, reading a novel about Nazi Germany or Stalin’s Russia, how oppressed and threatened people managed to carry on in a constant state of fear. When I saw them going through...
