Review of Peculiar Savage Beauty, by Jessica McCann
My review of Jessica McCann’s haunting and heartwarming Peculiar Savage Beauty, a novel set in Kansas in 1934 when the Plains states are overwhelmed by dusters and disaster.
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Judith Starkston
Judith Starkston has spent too much time exploring the remains of the ancient worlds of the Greeks and Hittites. Their myths and clashes inspire her fiction and open gates to magical realms. She has degrees in Classics from the University of California, Santa Cruz and Cornell. She loves myths and telling stories, and her novels imbue fantasy with the richness of ancient worlds. The first book in her Trojan Threads Series, Hand of Fire was a semi-finalist for the M.M. Bennett’s Award for Historical Fiction. Priestess of Ishana, the first in her historical fantasy Tesha series, won the San Diego State University Conference Choice Award. Judith is represented by Richard Curtis.
Roundup of Archaeology and History April 7-12
My roundup of history and archaeology: Talking Troy: Fall of a City, interpreting Egyptian tomb paintings & excavations on the island of Keros Greece
Review of Circe by Madeline Miller
Book Review: Miller’s Circe spellbinds with gorgeous language, compelling characters and new takes on Greek mythology and Homer. She is both respectful of ancient tradition and captivating in her relevance to contemporary concerns.
Roundup of Archaeology and History March 31-April 6
My weekly roundup of history and archaeology: wine-making by Roman Pliny, real Amazons & other topics of popular ancient history with Adrienne Mayor, exploring a still-buried district in Pompeii
My Dear Hamilton, by Stephanie Dray and Laura Kamoie
The launch of MY DEAR HAMILTON, the great untold American story of Eliza Hamilton, historical fiction by Stephanie Dray and Laura Kamoie. “A revolutionary woman who, like her new nation, struggled to define herself in the wake of war, betrayal, and tragedy”
Roundup of Archaeology and History March 24-30
Here’s my roundup of archaeology and history: date of Netflix launch of Troy Fall of a City, ancient pottery around the Baltic Sea shows how women carried cultural change through migratory marriages, the new archaeology of ancient gardens & a pre-Mycenaean chamber tomb in Thessaly
Roundup of Archaeology and History March 15-23
Here’s my round up of archaeology and history that I enjoyed from around the web: Mining big data to study gender in fiction, trade networks and globalism in Bronze Age Anatolia and Assyria, Mesopotamian art styles in King Tut’s treasures, preserving cursed mummies in Egypt
Roundup of Archaeology and History Feb 10-March 9
My roundup of history and archaeology: a lecture on the Delphic Oracle, Roman mosaics found in Caesaria, Troy Fall of a City’s Achilles talks about his part, a cartoon, thinking about awkward moments in the Odyssey in the Paris Review, Roman temples with poison gas emissions and playing with Roman dice.
Roundup of Archaeology and History Feb 3-9
My roundup of archaeology and history with some Fantasy/SciFi tossed in: color perception & language in ancient Near East and Greek, the blue-eyed, black skinned face of the first Brit & a short story in honor of libraries
Roundup of Archaeology and History Jan 24-Feb 2
My roundup of archaeology and history: Archaeology lecture for Phoenix area, Urusula LeGuin’s “remarkable spirit”, info about BBC/Netflix show Troy: Fall of a City, Reese Witherspoon on “female heroes that have always been in the shadows and now are coming into the light,” and the earliest ochre “crayon” found under a peat bog/ancient lake