Good Reads

   Oklahoma author sheds light on famous crime. Black Mass, the movie about legendary Boston criminal James “Whitey” Bulger starring Johnny Depp, opens this month nationwide. Viewers who want a little background about Bulger – and the details of the…

  Award-Winning Peril in a Bygone Era ’Tis the season for summer reading, and while Oklahoma in July is a far cry from the clammy fogs of Victorian England, you’re advised to take this particular trip back to Old Blighty:…

  A Gymnastics Legend Shares Her Story and Struggles There’s a reason most of us don’t have literary options on our life stories: a good autobiography requires a noteworthy subject. You can hardly ask for a more glorious first career…

  Oklahoma to Virginia: A First Novel Revisiting the Second World War It’s the name of a small town in Oklahoma, and a group home for children there, and now the first novel by Virginia writer Hilary Holladay: “Tipton.” The…

  An OKC Artist and Author’s First Novel Plays Ring-Around-the-Reality It’s one of the most classic structures in storytelling: everything seems ordinary and life is flowing along normally – until the protagonist stumbles across something unexpected and is thrust into…

  An Atmospheric New Mystery Filled With Old Ghosts “That was Wyatt’s philosophy when it came to the past: Stay out of it. By doing so he had lived a happy life. A life undrowned, unbroken on the rocks, unswept…

  History with a Bang Steely-eyed sheriffs and dastardly outlaws, scouts and hunters and bartenders in rowdy saloons … settling the Western frontier was a rough, dangerous business, and firm words weren’t going to cut it. The rifles and handguns…

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A Laudable Tale of Dirty Deeds Hook Runyon has been working on the railroad, all the livelong day. And night. It’s a pretty unrewarding job being train security most of the time – long hours, alternating periods of frustration dealing…

A Home More Than the Sum of Its Parts An aging hippie fiercely beloved by the preschool students she teaches about everything from dinosaurs to weather; a tenured professor with a passion for wild birds; a cheery Native blackjack dealer;…

The Stories That Make the State  “I hope,” writes David Dary, “these stories remind readers that Oklahoma’s history is as rich and colorful as the land itself. The stories may help them understand the state’s complex past and explain why…

Off With Their Heads! Alice Bell would be happy to wake up any time now. That might mean that the world would be back to normal, the car crash that killed her family would never have happened … and she…

Class is in Session For Followers of These Prize-Winning Oklahoma Authors Starting school is on a lot of minds this month, including young Frankilee Baxter’s – she’s heading into her freshman year at Athena College and more concerned with pledging…

Getting Away With Textual Traveling Companions or Books That Are Just Out There Travel is on our minds this month, and while this guidebook isn’t particularly helpful in finding your way from place to place, it will help readers find…

Most Oklahoma natives can name the so-called Five Civilized Tribes (which is an egregiously patronizing label, by the way) that are part of our state’s culture … but that’s just the beginning. What is now Oklahoma has been home to…

Revive, strive and thrive with like-minded readers and writers at the 45th annual Oklahoma Writer’s Federation Inc. Conference May 2-4 Hundreds and thousands of avid readers will be making their way to Embassy Suites Norman for the awards banquet, autograph…