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By: Holroyd, Michael
From the 9/6/08 Times review by Michael Arditti: “He [Holroyd] creates a saga in which the glories of an older generation are dissipated by children.”
Reviewer: Beth
By: Morris, Willie
One of many fine books by this quasi-native son, The Courting of Marcus Dupree chronicles the feverish college recruitment of a promising high school football player in the early ‘80s. Willie Morris, an editor of the Daily Texan in the 50’s, after a stint in The Big Apple returned home to Mississippi and found this story there. It’s more than the story of a high school football star and his family working their way through the tangle of possibilities and promises offered in the recruitment process. It’s a look into the soul of this town where twenty years before three young civil rights workers had been murdered.
Reviewer: Janice Duff
By: Burns, Walter Noble
Billy the Kid is the subject of many books and movies. Bob Dylan, called by one of our English faculty “the American Homer,” wrote the music for one of movies. Michael Ondaatje, author of The English Patient, wrote a book of poems and vignettes in Billy’s stead. I doubt our interest in Billy would have thrived so if not for Burns’ book, published in 1926 and based on accounts of people living then who had known Billy. Burns creates such a sympathetic character and tells the story so well, not wanting to go to sleep with Billy’s end on my mind, I had to stop reading just before the death scene.
Reviewer: Janice Duff
By: McDonough, Jimmy
I’m a huge Neil Young fan. I grew up in the 1970s and remember listening to so many of his songs on the radio. A few years ago, my favorite cousin Joey was visiting for SXSW and brought Shakey with him. During the day, he sat on the porch and could not put it down (at night he was downtown rockin’ out). He said the book was really interesting, especially if you like Neil Young and music from the 60s and 70s. We had a copy at the Fine Arts Library and I checked it out. What an excellent biography. Young is very private and this is the first in depth account of his life. I highly recommend this account of Young’s life.
Reviewer: Laura Schwartz
