BOOK REVIEWS, INTERVIEWS, ARTICLES
FOR SOUTHERN WRITERS ON WRITING:
- Review at Alabama Writers’ Forum by Donna Estill.
- Review by Don Noble of BOOKMARK for Tuscaloosa news,
- September 15, 2018: Interview with Allen Mendenhall in Southern Literary Review,
- August 23, 2018: “An Imperfect Art,” by Debbie Jacob in Trinidad and Tobago
- NEWSDAY, July 9, 2018: The Literary South – Review by Melanie Lee Dragger on May 16, 2018 Chapter 16 – Review by Ed Tarkington on April 27, 2018 –“Against Professional Southerners” (also in Memphis Commercial Appeal on April 27) Lemuria Bookstore Blog/Jackson Clarion Ledger – Review by Jim Ewing on April 29, 2018 – “Southern writers share secrets, stories, in new anthology”
- Oxford Magazine – “There’s Something About The South” – Interview – May/June 2018 issue
- Video of panel at Lemuria Books, Jackson, Mississippi, on May 2, 2018, with Susan
- Cushman, John Floyd, and Jim Dees (video credit to Steve Yates at University Press of Mississippi)
- Susan’s interview for CHERRY BOMB on WZKR Super Talk radio in
- Meridian, Mississippi on November 29, 2017
- Susan’s author page on Mississippi Writers and Musicians
- Interview on Mississippi Writers’ Pathways: “Susan Cushman:
- Prolific and Courageous and Transparent“
- REVIEWS for Cherry Bomb (a novel):
- Review in Southern Libraries journal by Michele Frasier-Robinson SUMMER 2018 (Vol. 81, No. 2, page 45).
- Review of CHERRY BOMB on Claire Fullerton’s blog: “CHERRY BOMB” March 4,
- 2018
- Review on the Southern Literary Review by Niles Reddick (September 26, 2017)
- “…reads like the work of a master…. It deserves a literary prize.”
- AMAZON REVIEWS: (14 of 16 reviews so far are 5 STARS)
- “Perfect YA Reading” (5 STARS) March 4, 2018
- “Compassionate, Real, and Heartbreaking” (5 STARS)
- “This is a beautifully written book that is both real and redemptive” (5 STARS)
- “Rich story of redemption and expression” (4 STARS) This also appeared in the
- Jackson, Mississippi Clarion Ledger on August 7, 2017
- “Great debut novel” (5 STARS)
- “I loved it” (5 STARS)
- “From the darkest childhood in a cult….” (5 STARS)
- There are 17 ratings and 11 reviews on Goodreads (16 are 5 STAR ratings.)
- REVIEWS for Tangles and Plaques: A Mother and Daughter Face Alzheimer’s:
- Oxford (MS) HottyToddy.com, March 1, 2017:
- “Writing to Remember: An Author’s Depiction of Her Mother’s Alzheimer’s”
- Jackson (MS) Clarion Ledger, March 2, 2017:
- “Jackson native writes about mother with Alzheimer’s”
- Oxford, (MS) Daily Mississippian, March 3, 2017:
- “Blogger and author Susan Cushman brings ‘Tangles and Plaques’ to Square Books”
- 5 STAR REVIEWS on AMAZON:
- “A Daughter’s Story”
- “Personal Look at Alzheimer’s and Caregiving“
- REVIEWS FOR A Second Blooming: Becoming the Women We Are Meant To Be:
- Nashville (TN) Chapter 16, March 23, 2017:
- “Giving Birth to Ourselves: Memphis’ Susan Cushman has curated a collection of essays
- by women, for women”
- Memphis (TN) Commercial Appeal, March 26, 2017:
- “In ‘A Second Blooming’ Susan Cushman gathers women’s voices”
- November 5, 2013: Article/interview by Jessica Jones in Gulf Coast Newspapers, “Making the Most Out of Workshops and Conferences,” about my upcoming talk at the Penster’s Writing Group in Fairhope, Alabama.
- July 7, 2012: Read my guest editorial in the Memphis Commercial Appeal.
- Award-winning Religion Editor, David Waters, invited me to be a guest columnist for “Faith Matters.” You can read the column here: “Memphis woman writes about unusual journey from Southern Presbyterian to Eastern Orthodox”
- You can also read the article at Faithinmemphis: “Cushman: Finding Balance in Orthodoxy.”