Jan 21, 2015 | Past Notes
In January and February, SINFUL FOLK author Ned Hayes was invited to appear on a number of radio interviews and author talks across the U.S. The radio book tour ranged from a 2-minute “medieval Valentine’s Day talk” to a 2 hour discussion of...
Jan 19, 2015 | Past Notes, Poetry
my first published poem, appeared in The Mid-American Review Transfiguration Ned Hayes White men’s bodies turn green under the billows of the sea I have been told so; when the young are dragged from the tide their lips have melted into a delicate slash of...
Jan 16, 2015 | On Books, Past Notes
Ariana Franklin is the master of historical suspense, and I love what she did in MISTRESS OF THE ART OF DEATH. My favorite part of the book is her mock-Chaucerian beginning, where she quickly sketches the different characters who are approaching Cambridge after their...
Jan 16, 2015 | On Books, Past Notes
Morality Play, by Barry Unsworth, is a tight taut tale of a troupe of actors in 14th century England who enter a new village and find out about the murder of a local boy. In a twist unusual to their station in the culture and their tenuous place in life, they actually...
