By BILL DUNCANThe View from Here
When I was in college studying journalism, I decided to take a course to learn shorthand, thinking this would give me an edge on the competition. After two weeks of my struggling with the Gregg’s Shorthand manual, the instructor, a stern-faced woman, came to me with an ultimatum. Improve my [...]
Waking up in Eden In Pursuit of an Impassioned Life on an Imperiled Island By Lucinda Fleeson Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill Paperback $13.95
By BILL DUNCAN The News-Review
Lucinda Fleeson was a big city journalist who had a wall filled with awards for her writing skills, but wanted more than what had [...]
By BILL DUNCANThe View From Here
Recently, I wrote a book review for The News-Review in Roseburg, Ore. about a haunting memoir called “Moving to the Center of the Bed,” by Sheila Weinstein, who told the story of how her husband slowly deteriorated from Pick’s Disease, a rare and often misdiagnosed brain disease that eventually deepens [...]
Windless SummerBy Heather SharfeddinDelta Trade Paperback OriginalBantam Dell PublishersPaperback $14.00
By BILL DUNCANThe News-Review
Heather Sharfeddin can take a reader into a run-down motel room and create a scene so real the reader can smell the stale, musty air inside. She does that in “Windless Summer,” her third novel where she takes the [...]
