You Can't Keep a Good Woman Down is Alice Walker's second collection of stories. It was published seven years after Walker published "In Search of Zora Neale Hurston" in Ms Magazine. (Walker, with Charlotte D. Hunt, had finally found Hurston's unmarked grave and marked it with a modest
It's been a long time since a book inspired me to create a Spelling It Out.* Generally speaking, it coincides with an author's shifting onto my MRE lists (Must Read Everything). Consider it official: Z.Z. Packer's Drinking Coffee Elsewhere makes her a MRE author for me, and now I'll
We were introduced in 2001, when an English reading friend recommended her novel Angel to me, which I read in a single day. It immediately seemed like one of those books with which I'd always been familiar. And its author was secured on my Must Read Everything list. Inside my
Rose Tremain's Sacred Country (1992) London: Sceptre – Hodder and Stoughton, 1993. I was thrilled with this book. So thrilled that, although I had read almost half of it before I lost track of it in a chaotic part of the year, I re-read that half willingly on a second
I've been collecting authors for so many years. Authors whose oeuvres I am determined to read. It's a never-ending reading list . At the end of last year, I noticed that I was adding to the list at a phenomenal rate and not moving as quickly with my reading. So
