Gary Broughman’s Indie Book Watch
I recently read a book one might think a man would see no reason to read. The 161-page paperback by Jill Jordan of DeLand is titled, On What to Take with You into the World, and subtitled “A Young Woman’s Guide to Wisdom and Power.” Although I do have two [...]
Gary Broughman’s Indie Book Watch
How do we define an era or a generation? Presidents? Wars just completed, being fought or on the horizon? Or maybe it’s cultural markers like popular music, TV shows or movies. That’s a fair enough method and gives us common ground on which to discuss or debate exactly what happened [...]
Gary Broughman’s Indie Book Watch
Poetry as performance art has become a hot commodity in recent years. You could trace it back to a variety of sources: the beat poets of the 50s, public readings by famous poets like Robert Frost—some of them recorded—or to the slam phenomenon which began in the 1980s. However it [...]
Gary Broughman’s Indie Book Watch
As in so many corners of our culture, diversity is now the name of the game in book publishing. With that lead I could go almost anywhere. I could compare books on paper to ebooks, or describe the hierarchy of nonfiction, fiction and poetry, or the way independent book publishing [...]
