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Breaking News!

November 2, 2020 Susan 4 Comments

John and Mary Margaret My second novel and seventh book will be released June 27, 2021 from Koehler Books! So,…

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Posted in: Covid Pamdemic, Friends of the Library, Publishing, Writing Filed under: beta readers, Blue Marlin, Friend of the Library, Koehler Books, Lee Smith, Memphis, novellas, novels, Ole Miss, publishing, short stories

It Takes a Village

July 26, 2020 Susan

To Give Birth to a Book I have recently finished the first draft of a novel. This is my seventh…

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Posted in: Friends of the Library, Writing Filed under: 1960s, beta readers, characters, Eudora Welty, isolation, John and Mary Margaret, Memphis, mixed race relationships, Ole Miss, On Writing, pandemic, racial unrest, setting, southern saga

Before and After: A book review

August 15, 2019 Susan 1 Comment

Judy Christie and Lisa Wingate, authors What a joy to receive an advance readers copy of Judy Christie and Lisa…

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Posted in: Book Reviews Filed under: adoption, adoptive parents, Before and After, Before We Were Yours, Benjamin L. Hicks Library, birth mothers, Georgia Tann, Judy Christie, Kirby Pines Lifecare Community, Lisa Wingate, Memphis, Novel books, siblings

Through An Autumn Window

November 5, 2018 Susan 2 Comments

My friend and native Memphian Claire Fullerton—author of the wonderful novel Mourning Dove, which I reviewed here—has just had a…

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Posted in: Uncategorized Filed under: A Southern Season: Four Stories From a Front Porch Swing, Ane Mulligan, autumn in Memphis, book review, Claire Fullerton, Eva Marie Everson, Linda W. Yezak, Memphis, Mourning Dove, novellas

StoryBoard Memphis!

August 20, 2018 Susan 3 Comments

A few months ago I met Mark Fleischer at a reading I was giving for SOUTHERN WRITERS ON WRITING at…

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Posted in: Uncategorized Filed under: Burke's Books Memphis, Mark Fleischer, Memphis, newspapers, Nove Books Memphis, print journalism, Southern Writers on Writing, StoryBoard Memphis, The Urbanist in All of Us, urbanism

MOURNING DOVE: by Memphis Native Claire Fullerton

June 29, 2018 Susan

Mourning Dove by Claire Fullerton Review by Susan Cushman How fun it was for me to read Claire Fullerton’s wonderful…

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Posted in: Uncategorized Filed under: book reviews, Claire Fullerton, fiction, Memphis, Mourning Dove, novels

Martin Luther King, the Orthodox Church, and the Civil Rights Movement #MLK50

April 4, 2018 Susan 2 Comments

As a member of the Orthodox Christian Church, I’d like to share a brief note about Iakovos, former Archbishop of…

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Posted in: Uncategorized Filed under: Archbishop Iakovos, Greek Orthodox Archdiocese, I Have A Dream, Martin Luther King, Memphis, MLK50m #MLK50, Orthodox

Desperation Road

June 15, 2017 Susan 2 Comments

About a month ago (May 16) I had the pleasure of meeting Mississippi author Michael Farris Smith at the Benjamin…

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Posted in: Uncategorized Filed under: Benjamin L. Hooks Central Library, Desperation Road, McComb Mississippi, Memphis, Michael Farris Smith, novels, The Hands of Strangers

Before We Were Yours (book review)

June 12, 2017 Susan

Have you ever been sad when you finished reading a book? That’s how I felt this weekend when I finished…

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Posted in: Uncategorized Filed under: Before We Were Yours, Lisa Wingate, Memphis, novel, Pulpwood Queens Girlfriend Weekend, river gypsies, shantyboat, Tennessee Children's Home Society scandal

Life is Hard

June 7, 2017 Susan 6 Comments

Yesterday I attended a funeral for the brother of a young friend who goes to my church. His brother took…

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Posted in: Uncategorized Filed under: Elmwood Cemetery, Father Phillip Rogers, Memphis, St. John Orthodox Church

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