The Girl from the Red Rose Motel – by Susan Beckham Zurenda

- October 1, 2023

Published by Mercer Univ Press (September 5, 2023), Hardcover – $27, 291 pages Hardback edition Kindle Edition There is a temptation to read The Girl from the Red Rose Motel through the veil of fiction with the comforting thought that the story of Hazel “Zell” Smalls is far removed from the Fredericksburg area and its […]

Classic Book Review: The Bluest Eye

- September 10, 2023

In my previous life as a book reviewer for The Free Lance-Star, the Book Page rarely reviewed books more than year old. On the rare occasions when my editors would relent to my pleas, it would be a book of local relevance or one that was particularly timely, like Albert Camus’ The Plague during Covid. The […]