by Lisa Alexia | Sep 7, 2019 | Freedom and Security, Our Northern Neighbors, Reviews of Books and Other Media
Salmonberries: An Interview with Julia Phillips, Part 2(Note: Transcript of “An Interview with Julia Phillips, Part 2” has been edited and condensed for clarity). Listen to “An Interview with Julia Phillips, Part 2” on Spreaker. Welcome to our...
by Lisa Alexia | Sep 6, 2019 | Freedom and Security, Our Northern Neighbors, Reviews of Books and Other Media
When I first heard about Seven Fallen Feathers: Racism, Death, and Hard Truths in a Northern City, by journalist Tanya Talaga, © 2017, House of Anansi Press, I recalled my observations when passing through the township of Armstrong, Ontario, in 1996. An unincorporated...
by Lisa Alexia | Aug 31, 2019 | Freedom and Security, Our Northern Neighbors, Reviews of Books and Other Media
Salmonberries: An Interview with Julia Phillips, Part 1(Note: Transcript of “An Interview with Julia Phillips” has been edited and condensed for clarity). Listen to “An Interview with Julia Phillips, Part 1” on Spreaker. Welcome to our...
by Lisa Alexia | Aug 6, 2019 | Freedom and Security, Our Northern Neighbors, Reviews of Books and Other Media |
Disappearing Earth by Julia Phillips has relevance for AlaskaSet in the Kamchatka peninsula of far northeastern Russia, debut novelist Julia Phillips writes in Disappearing Earth about the interior worlds of women, the importance of community, and the impacts of...
by Lisa Alexia | May 16, 2019 | Freedom and Security, Reviews of Books and Other Media
Fighter in Velvet Gloves is “a true story for young teens about Alaska Civil Rights Hero Elizabeth Peratrovich” By Annie Boochever with Roy Peratrovich Jr., published February 16, 2019 by Snowy Owl Books, (University of Alaska Fairbanks Press). ...
by Mary Odden | May 10, 2019 | Our Communities, Reviews of Books and Other Media
Rob McCue’s One Water is a refreshingly interior account, not only because the first person narrator reports from inside the action—often the interior of the city cab he drives in half the stories—but also in the sense of “interior” Alaska, with Fairbanks as its hub...