Authors receiving enthusiastic reviews
Contact: Christina Chapple
2/24/06
HAMMOND – Writers among the faculty of Southeastern Louisiana University’s Department of English are continuing to gain critical acclaim for their work, which is being published individually, included in anthologies and enthusiastically reviewed.
New books getting favorable notice include a poetry collection by Jack Bedel, “Come Rain, Come Shine,” and a novel, “A Killing in This Town,” by Writer in Residence Olympia Vernon.
Vernon’s third novel has been favorably reviewed both in the prestigious “New York Times Book Review” and in Baton Rouge’s “The Advocate.” Bedell's new full-length book, “Come Rain, Come Shine,” which will be published in March by the Texas A&M Press Consortium, is also garnering attention. Fellow poet Virgil Suarez called Bedell “a prince amongst poets…His is a mature voice, graceful and eloquent, that brings to life more than the memory of the place and its people,” while poet Vivian Shipley said, "These poems are infused with a deep understanding of what it is to be human because Bedell has cored them from the heart."
“Sportsfishing with Cameron,” a short story by English professor Norman German, has been included in “Wide Awake in the Pelican State,” an LSU Press anthology that will be published in April and also includes a selection by Southeastern professor emeritus Tim Gautreaux. The press said the book includes 21 of “the finest modern writers who claim Louisiana as home."
An article on John Ruskin by Southeastern professor David Hanson appeared in an anthology, “The Child Writer from Austen to Woolf,” which was reviewed on the front page of Great Britain’s “Times Literary Supplement.”
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