It is that time of year again, the time of year when I reminisce about some of the things that I have written and done over the past year. Last post, I talked about writing essays for On the Stump and Bitter Root. I talked about learning some of the racist history of my hometown and the massacre that occurred in 1868. I talked … Read More Year End Round Up: Part II
+ frank yerby, goat song, rediscovering frank yerby, salute to the flag, the short stories of frank yerby, the vixens, white magnolias
Last post, I wrote about three of my favorite Frank Yerby novels. Today, I want to talk about two more of my favorite novels plus mu favorite Yerby short story. Choosing my top three Yerby novels was fairly simple. They are ones I go back to, again and again, for various reasons. However, when I started to think about the last two novels that … Read More Top Five Frank Yerby Novels: Part II
+ frank yerby, katoya ellis fleming, rediscovering frank yerby, speak now, the foxes of harrow, the short stories of frank yerby, the treasure of pleasant valley
At this moment, I am almost exactly halfway through Frank Yerby’s oeuvre. During his career, he published thirty-three novels, and at the time of this writing, I am reading my seventeenth, Devilseed (1984). I’ve been reading Yerby for about five years now, working, in my spare time, to complete his works. I have twenty-four of his novels on my shelf, so I still need … Read More Top Five Frank Yerby Novels: Part I
+ anderson rouse, catherine adams, donna-lyn washington, frank yerby, gene andrew jarrett, guirdex masse, john lowe, katoya ellis fleming, oxford american, rediscovering frank yerby, Stephanie brown, the short stories of frank yerby, university press of mississippi, veronica watson
If you have been following my blog over the past few years, you have seen a lot of my work on Frank Yerby. That work has led to the publication of Rediscovering Frank Yerby: Critical Essays, a collection of essays that seeks to, as the title says, rediscover and reorient Yerby within the African American and American literary tradition. Pubisher’s Weekly review of the … Read More “Rediscovering Frank Yerby” Introduction
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