Reviewed by Mary McWay Seaman, Celtic Connection, December, 2008 Every so often, a literary jewel radiates beams of breathtaking, iridescent force. Sebastian Barry”s THE SECRET SCRIPTURE, with the heft and lilt of eloquent simplicity, [...read]
Mar 202009
Reviewed by Mary McWay Seaman, Celtic Connection, April, 2008 How often do our mortal selves bear scrutiny as a mighty chunk of nature, chiseled as we are by technological realignments to flesh, blood [...read]
Nov 132007
Reviewed by Mary McWay Seaman, Celtic Connection, July, 2007 Short story collections make irresistible traveling companions, and Thomas McGuane”s distinguished new volume, GALLATIN CANYON, delivers ten edgy displacement dramas perfectly fitted for interludes [...read]
Nov 042007
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Reviewed by Mary McWay Seaman, Celtic Connection, October, 2007 Folks who grew up during the Great Depression will not easily forget this book, and some New Yorkers may even feel themselves walking through its [...read]
Sep 052007
Reviewed by Mary McWay Seaman, Celtic Connection, September, 2007 Belinda Rathbone”s new memoir is an exceptional combo of history, lament, battle cry and chronicle of what is, sifted from what once was, in rural [...read]
Jul 222007
Short story collections make irresistible traveling companions, and Thomas McGuane”s distinguished new volume, GALLATIN CANYON, delivers ten edgy displacement dramas perfectly fitted for interludes on the plane, by the pool or on [...read]
The saga of a giant in popular music history is told in the long-awaited book, P.S. Gilmore: The Authorized Biography of America”s First Superstar written by Gilmore sleuth Rusty Hammer. Performer, promoter, [...read]
Jun 252007
Reviewed by Mary McWay Seaman, Celtic Connection, June, 2007 Not having a scientific bent myself, I was leery of tackling even a modest tome on genetics; however, this thriller hooked me immediately. Bryan Sykes, [...read]
Reviewed by Mary McWay Seaman, Celtic Connection, May, 2007 A full sensory excursion to the beginnings of the British penal colony in New South Wales awaits in Thomas Keneally’s A COMMONWEALTH OF THIEVES: THE [...read]