Ladee Hubbard

Aug 21, 2024 | wildsam.com | Ladee Hubbard

Six miles south of New Iberia, Louisiana sits Avery Island, best known as the home of Tabasco Pepper Sauce. Like the pepper in the famous sauce's name, the designation "island" is something of a misnomer. Surrounded by bayous, salt marshes, and swamps, Avery Island is actually 2,200 acres of lush semi-tropical marshland set atop an eight-mile-deep natural salt dome.

Oct 23, 2023 | thecreativeindependent.com | Ladee Hubbard

Ladee Hubbard is the author of the short story collection The Last Suspicious Holdout as well as the novels The Talented Ribkins, which received the 2018 Ernest J. Gaines Award for Literary Excellence and the Hurston-Wright Legacy Award for Debut Fiction, and The Rib King. Her writing has appeared in Oxford American, Guernica, *Virginia Quarterly *and Callaloo among other venues. She is a recipient of a Berlin Prize, a Radcliffe Institute Fellowship and a Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers’ Award.

Mar 17, 2023 | ourtimepress.com | Ladee Hubbard

The Talented RibkinsBy Ladee Hubbard289 pp. Melville House PublishingBlack speculative fiction, on the rise, encompasses and blurs the genres of magical realism, Afrofuturism, horror, fantasy, paranormal, and mythology. These imaginative stories enable writers to create alternative and futuristic worlds, narratives rooted in traditional beliefs and spirituality, and stories that explore, create, and/or reimagine the experiences of people of African descent.

Mar 8, 2023 | pghcitypaper.com | Amanda Waltz |Connie Briscoe |Harlan Coben |Ladee Hubbard

click to enlarge Indie Bookseller Spotlight is a regular column listing new releases at Pittsburgh book shops. Support local businesses and find your next favorite read. You Never Know by Connie Briscoe (HarperCollins) An assault in her own home leaves a deaf woman wondering if her disappeared husband has anything to do with it in this domestic thriller from a bestselling author.

Feb 14, 2023 | audiofilemagazine.com | Ladee Hubbard

With ease, empathy, and knowing assurance, veteran narrators Adenrele Ojo and JD Jackson become the recurring characters in this dazzling collection of 13 stories. The short works examine the hopes and fears of the rising Black middle class located in a "sliver of Southern suburbia" in the 1990s/2000s. Fathers wanting better lives for their sons. Prodigal brothers returning from prison. A lonely child inventing family tales.