Two Lubbock postal contractors have been indicted with stealing mail after an investigation revealed more than 8,000 pieces of mail totaling over $4 million were stolen.
Published April 6, 2021 at 6:04 PM EDT Listen • 26:02 Cover of UNSUNG
On this episode of the Gulf Coast Life Book Club, we hear from Michelle D. Commander, editor of UNSUNG. Unsung is a remarkable anthology of slave narratives, children’s literature of the time, and much more. It was compiled from the outstanding collection of the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture. Michelle D. Commander, PhD.
Plus, author Rachel Lynn Solomon about her novel THE EX TALK. It’s a romantic comedy set in … of all places … a public radio station.
Sabreen Lakhani
Iâm So Sorry! Romance Novels, Bad Behavior and Forgiveness
Credit.Christy Lundy
March 10, 2021
A romanceâs happy ending requires that neither of the lead characters do anything unforgivable. But everyoneâs definition of unforgivable is different â so if a character does something a reader considers wildly out of bounds, or if a characterâs remorse is not finely calibrated enough for the readerâs taste, it can call the authorâs whole definition of happiness into question.
So Iâm happy to have read Suleikha Snyderâs BIG BAD WOLF (Sourcebooks Casablanca, 305 pp., paper, $8.99), because this may be the first time Iâve ever seen a heroine in a romance novel specifically and emphatically say that forgiving the hero for his past sins was not her job.