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Author Archives: Ed Battistella
Celebrating Ashland Authors this Poetry Month
It’s poetry month, so it seems like a good time to celebrate Ashland authors. Here is list of nearly 200 of them, It’s a first-pass, work in progress, hopefully to be updated, revised, corrected, and expanded periodically. (any students need … Continue reading
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Alter Ego, A Myriad of Tongues, & High Desert, Higher Costs
Alter Ego by Alex Segura Last summer I read the author’s Secret Identity, about women in the comics industry and the fictional Carmen Valdez, who created The Legendary Lynx for the minor-league comics company, Triumph Comics. She secretly teamed up … Continue reading
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Rebel Queen: The Cold War, Misogyny, and the Making of a Grandmaster
Rebel Queen: The Cold War, Misogyny, and the Making of a Grandmaster. By Susan Polgar (Grand Central, March 2025) Susan Polgar’s Rebel Queen is a sparking memoir by the oldest of the famous Polgar sisters, the Hungarian siblings who changed … Continue reading
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What I’m Reading: Sandlin, Stephenson, Šipka, and more
Sweet Vidalia by Lisa Sandlin When Eliza Kratke arrived home one die, she finds her husband, a railroad man, clutching his chest near his car. After a harrowing car ride to the hospital, he dies. Then it turns out that … Continue reading
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