Articles

  • May 27, 2024 | electricliterature.com | Joel Morris

    Reading Lists Spirits are often the past made present—something that persists unnaturally when it shouldn’t I’ve never seen a ghost.

  • Mar 20, 2024 | bookbrowse.com | Joel Morris |Kim Kovacs

    BookBrowse: Joel H. Morris's fascinating historical fiction debut speculates how Lady Macbeth became the evil queen depicted in Shakespeare's tragedy. Joel H.

  • Mar 16, 2024 | journalgazette.net | Derek Miller |Adelle Waldman |Joel Morris |Hisashi Kashiwai

    These works of literary fiction are newly available from the Allen County Public Library. “The Curse of Pietro Houdini”by Derek B. Miller In 1943, 14-year-old Massimo, rescued by a mysterious man called Pietro Houdini who preserves the treasures within a Benedictine abbey’s wall, accompanies him on a World War II art heist adventure. They lie, cheat, steal, fight, kill and sin to survive, while smuggling Renaissance masterpieces they’ve rescued from the “safe keeping” of the Germans.

  • Mar 14, 2024 | crimereads.com | Joel Morris

    In a late episode of Better Call Saul, Saul Goodman beseeches his wife Kim Wexler, “What’s done can be undone.” Caught up in a web of lies and deaths, and questioning what she has become along the way, Kim has relinquished her law license, and Saul implores her to undo her decision in an act of desperation. He knows what she has worked to achieve; he knows the people she has helped. He knows that their partnership is on the line.

  • Mar 14, 2024 | lithub.com | Joel Morris

    Deep in the forest, an old woman sits in her cottage by the fire. She complains that her daughter is not raising her granddaughter correctly, not teaching the girl “the facts of life.” There’s a danger in such ignorance. After all, the girl could be walking through the woods that very minute. The trees are thick, and wolves are waiting. The delight in Nalo Hopkinson’s story, “Riding the Red,” comes in realizing that this old woman is Little Red Riding Hood.