The Illusion of Recovery in Subprime America
That’s the gist of my new piece published today at TomDispatch.com. While there’s plenty of projections and guesses on how long it’ll taking the housing industry to recover, far fewer are the firsthand, boots-on-the-ground reports on how struggling homeowners are faring right now with explosive interest rates, underwater mortgages, and uncooperative servicers or lenders. Today’s piece, I hope, will offer that perspective, a story in three acts set in the... Read More
‘The Things We Do to Make It Home’ — Q & A with novelist Beverly Gologorsky
Originally published at Alternet.org *** ‘The Things We Do to Make It Home’ — Novel Takes Us Back to Soldiers’ Horrors of Vietnam For all the soldiers’ memoirs and non-fiction accounts of war’s lasting impact, few books capture the aftermath of the Vietnam War, and the lasting toll on soldiers and their loved ones, better than Beverly Gologorsky’s novel The Things We Do to Make It Home. Gologorsky’s novel depicts the lives of a group... Read More
