Mary Akers

Author: Mary Akers

  • Jessica Handler’s Notes from the Road

    Mary has asked me to guest blog this week, and to talk a little bit about the evolution and execution of my book tour. Let’s start at Gate A 18, Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport, Atlanta; my hometown airport. I’m on my way to New York to participate in an author meet-and-greet to get my book Invisible…

  • Interview with Jeffery Hess

    Today I have the pleasure of interviewing Jeffery Hess, editor of the newly released anthology Home of the Brave: Stories in Uniform. Mary Akers – Welcome to my blog, Jeff. 🙂 Thanks for taking the time to share a little bit about your project and the processes that brought it to publication. To start with,…

  • Dominica!!

    Dominica, my favorite island in the world, where I helped to found a marine ecology school has taken an amazing and brave step forward. For the first time in many years (ever?), Dominica has abstained from the vote to support commercial whaling in the Caribbean. Over the years, they have received a great deal of…

  • Review of Ron Rash’s "Serena"

    Gently Read Literature has posted my review of Ron Rash’s latest novel “Serena.”

  • Five Star Literary Stories

    I’ve got a new review up at Five Star Literary Stories. “Gods for Sale” was an excellent story (written by Patricia O’Donnell) and was a pleasure to read and review.

  • Sylvia Earle

    Delivers an excellent TED lecture about protecting the world’s oceans. This woman has done so much to protect our ocean environment–love her. And I had the excellent good fortune to meet her in the 90s and even go on a night dive with her (and Hugh Downs) when 60 Minutes was filming on the Aquarius…

  • Review for Women Up On Blocks

    Katrina Denza offers a wonderful, generous review of Women Up On Blocks at her blog Illuminate, Ruminate, Create.

  • Who says high school reunions aren’t fun?

    You just have to have them in the woods, by a creek, with the coolest people in the world. Then they’re fun.

  • Review of Women Up On Blocks

    I am thrilled to have a most excellent review (my first!) appear in the Winston-Salem Journal for my short story collection Women Up On Blocks. You can read it (pretty please?) here. Yippee!!

  • The Painted Word by Tom Wolfe

    The Painted Word is primarily a book about the rise of modern art—and art theory. (It also feels as if it’s a little bit about Tom Wolfe, too, but then, what book of his doesn’t feel that way?) Still, it’s an engaging read, filled with Wolfe’s studied observations and dripping with a detached bemusement toward…