A Son of the Game A story of golf, going home and sharing life’s lesson By James Dodson Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill Hard cover $24.95
By BILL DUNCAN The News-Review
Of all the sports, the one that fascinates me most is golf. That may sound strange coming [...]
Lucky Girl A Memoir By Mei-Ling Hopgood Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill Hardcover $23.95
By BILL DUNCAN The News-Review
“Some people spend a lifetime trying to understand, uncover or escape their past. Mine was like a dragon, fast and furious. I was blissfully ignorant, a sleeping ox about to be discovered [...]
By BILL DUNCANThe View From Here
Sally Kruse is a farm wife who became a journalist when she wrote her own wedding story and submitted it to the local newspaper. The editor hired her as a society writer. That was when newspapers had a society section and a dogfight on main street was more important to [...]
A Reliable Wife By Robert Goolrick Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill Hardcover $24.95
By BILL DUNCAN The News-Review
Having read his gloomy, disquieting, sometimes morbid memoir of his Southern childhood, “The End of the World As We Know It,” I should have expected Goolrick’s first novel would also be [...]
By BILL DUNCANThe View From Here
A little bit of knowledge of a foreign language is dangerous, especially when it comes to speaking it, I’ve learned this hard lesson because I took Spanish in high school – a Southern high school where we said “Usted All.”
Over the years I’ve tried to practice my Spanish and embarrassed [...]
