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Lassoed By A Cowboy’s Love

April 14th, 201104:57 PM ET

By Audra Jennings

Denise Hunter explores whether the truth can really set us free. Do the secrets from our past affect who we become in the future? Can the hurts we’ve experienced really prevent us from finding true fulfillment? In her newest novel, A Cowboy’s Touch, award-winning author Denise Hunter will explore these questions, and readers will d...
How Should I Read This Novel

November 05th, 200911:53 AM ET

By Richard Doster

I just finished Pat Conroy's new book, South of Broad. When I read Conroy I get so caught up in the language-in the cadence and tempo of it-that I sometimes lose track of story. His style, at least for me, can overwhelm the plot. As a result, I find myself wallowing around in all this glorious construction, content to soak in the beauty of how the ...
Rational Creatures, Moved by Emotion

September 24th, 200910:47 AM ET

By Richard Doster

Arnold Weinstein-the author, scholar, and winsome English professor-brings two fundamental beliefs to his assessment of literature: That feeling is the basic, invisible fact of life. And therefore, the basic but unacknowledged fact of literature. Novels, poetry, and short stories, Weinstein informs his readers, provide a gateway t...
Seeking an Enlargement of Our Being

July 25th, 200907:27 AM ET

By Richard Doster

A good friend of mine doesn't read fiction. Why, he asks, would I spend precious time reading about things that aren't true? Why would I get tangled up in a story that never happened? Why, he insists on knowing, should I get emotionally involved in some fictional set of circumstances when my own family's every bit as dysfunctional as Pat Conroy's? ...
Rethinking Christian Literature

July 19th, 200907:21 AM ET

By Richard Doster

Ask your neighbors for an off-the-cuff reaction to the words "Christian literature" and you're likely to hear them stumble through a list of belittling adjectives. Despite the swelling ranks of able Christian writers, the reaction demonstrates that we're viewed as an inconsequential presence in the world of literature. This image belies reality-in ...