Aloha from the cornfields
I raise my head amidst the avalanche of Finals Week to add my
voice with many others to celebrate Terrill Lee Lankford's
new novel EARTHQUAKE WEATHER. Today is the novel's lay-down
day (which sounds sexier than reality admits.) Earlier this
month I read an ARC, found it not only to be a great
Hollywood novel, but also a great hard-boiled (&
bittersweet) read, and I recommend it wholeheartedly to
anyone. I let my 80 college students in California Literature
finger and thumb my copy, and some students actually came up
to me in days following asking me where they could find a
copy for themselves. "Bookstores," said I.
Frederick Zackel
"When there has been a long season of quiet, people are slow
to wet their hands in blood; but once blood is spilled,
cutting and shooting come easy."
~ Mark Twain, "Roughing It."
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