Erica Ciccarone

1 month ago | bookpage.com | Erica Ciccarone

Nicole Cuffy’s ambitious second novel, O Sinners!, opens with New York journalist Faruq Zaidi on assignment to embed with “the nameless,” a spiritual group with their headquarters in Northern California. Led by Odo, a charismatic Black Vietnam War vet, the nameless’ residential compound in the midst of the forest is part experiment in utopian communal living, part inflexible sect.

1 month ago | bookpage.com | Erica Ciccarone

What do you love most about your memoir? The greatest thing I have ever written was my rights into existence. This is the second. It was healing to write it and I hope that readers will be able to heal a part of their soul while reading it too. What kind of reader do you think will most appreciate or enjoy your book? Anyone who has had to heal, is on their healing journey and wants to know how to change the world will enjoy the book.

1 month ago | bookpage.com | Erica Ciccarone

What do you love most about your memoir? I love the idea that it might prompt other people to think deeply about their own reading habits, and perhaps go back to some of the books that shaped them. Maybe it’s the teacher in me, but if any readers of Bibliophobia go back and reread at least one of the books that’s changed the way they think or feel, I’ll be happy. What kind of reader do you think will most appreciate or enjoy your book?

Aug 31, 2024 | bookpage.com | Erica Ciccarone

Texas Ranger Darren Mathews wants out of his genre. Or that’s what the husband of Attica Locke, author of the Highway 59 mystery trilogy, said when he finished reading Guide Me Home, Locke’s exceptional final volume in the series. “It’s as if he’s kind of done with the cops and robbers of it all,” Locke says of Darren, the flawed lawman who first entranced readers in 2017’s Edgar Award-winning Bluebird, Bluebird.

Jul 21, 2023 | nashvillescene.com | Erica Ciccarone

Cue the discourse about one of the most hotly anticipated movies of summer. Directed by Greta Gerwig, with a screenplay co-written by her and Noah Baumbach, Barbie is a film that will read differently depending on your childhood and generation. The Mattel character has evolved from glamor girl to sweetheart to mom-to-be to physicist, aiming to be more inclusive with every decade. Despite the massive promotional campaign for the film, previews of Barbie give little away.