The Eclectic Reader

Lydia Chukovskaya (1907 - 1996) was of Jewish origin and was the daughter of a beloved writer of children’s books in Russia.  Lydia marr...

When I first read a review of Atlanta author Amanda C. Gable’s 2009 novel The Confederate General Rides North , I immediately knew that ...

The Prize (1962) is prolific author Irving Wallace’s magnum opus on the Nobel Prizes.  Reading a novel by Irving Wallace is like eating...

Zora Neale Hurston’s first published novel, Jonah’s Gourd Vine (1934), was loosely based upon Hurston’s parents.  The main character, J...

Something zany is going on in the East African Kingdom of Azania in the early 1930s.  Seth, the new Oxford educated emperor, wants to ...

Well, I understand that I’m only 26 years late. I just finished reading Tom Wolfe’s blockbuster novel about the decadence, excess and ...

Flannery O'Connor famously said that "Anything that comes out of the South is going to be called grotesque by the northern read...