CultureWatch, March 2009

The Secret Scripture by Sebastian Barry should appeal to all readers of literary fiction; Roseanne McNulty’s story becomes an alternative, secret, history of Ireland. Henry Alford
is witty and literate, but somehow he has allowed his talents to be
diffused, by mixing the intensely personal with the reportorial in How to Live; A Search for Wisdom from Old People. Bailey White’s Quite a Year for Plums
setting is southern Georgia; the characters are a collection of
psychologically peculiar scarred individuals their inventor has endowed
with flaws that in spite of being exaggerated don’t become burlesque.
Online attendance at Shakespeare’s Staging is a feast of images and videos