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Witchcraft for Wayward Girls
The setting is a maternity home, Wellwood Home, in 1970 Florida. Young women are sent there by their families to…
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Memoirs about family, memory, and inheritance
Family history used to be recorded. Memoir is where it lives now. Census sheets, baptismal dates, land deeds. Facts meant…
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What makes a great war novel?
I’ve been thinking about what makes a great war novel for years without quite phrasing it as a question. It…
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The Case Against Satan by Ray Russell: The possession novel before The Exorcist
Ray Russell published The Case Against Satan in 1962, nine years before William Peter Blatty wrote The Exorcist. That chronology…
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