Literary Lunch [Paperback]

Jeannette Brown (Editor), Flossie McNabb (Contributor)

Book Description

Publication Date: October 6, 2002

Literary Lunch is a collection of short stories, essays, memoirs, poems and art that feed the heart and brain. It features creative works involving food from writers, poets and artists representing 13 states. Includes a new prose-poem by Nikki Giovanni. 272 pages

Editorial Reviews

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"... a mason jar full of memory--and a book to savor, to treasure, to give to your friends." -- Lee Smith, cover blurb

"Some fine writers give their take on hunger and what satisfies it." -- George Singleton, cover blurb

"This collection's must reading for those inclined toward literature and gastronomy." -- Tim Gautreaux, cover blurb

Product Details

• Paperback: 272 pages
• Publisher: Knoxville Writers Guild (October 6, 2002)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0964317826
• ISBN-13: 978-0964317826
• Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 6 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 15.8 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 2.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #8,736,701 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Joseph Michael DeGross lives and writes in East Tennessee in the winter,and Adirondack Park and Wyoming in the summer. He is a semiretired physician, an avid upland bird hunter, and a fly fisherman. He writes fiction. One of his short stories appeared in an anthology called LITERARY LUNCH, which is available on Amazon.com. A novel called UNDERTOW will soon be available in paperback on Amazon and via the author's website at josephmichaeldegross.com. UNDERTOW is the first book in a trilogy about the fictional life of Michael Ross, a soldier, physician, and CIA assassin. DeGross writes in a style that blends the character complexity, word rhythms and sentence style of literary fiction with powerful cinematic action scenes more common to mainstream fiction. UNDERTOW will also soon be available in e-book form through Kindle. UNDERCOVER, a second novel in the Michael Ross series will be available in 2013, and THE ALIBI a collection of literary fiction short stories will be available in late 2012.

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3.0 out of 5 stars Literary Lunch, December 25, 2002

By A Customer

This review is from: Literary Lunch (Paperback)

Reading this has me yearning for the produce aisle.... Zuchnini, cucumbers, squash, whatever....then I can really let loose!! Maybe move on to a frozen garlic bread...even a corn dog!

Gee! I love food!

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2.0 out of 5 stars Morals & Ethics in Journalism., October 30, 2006

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Betty Burks "Betty Burks" (Knoxville, TN) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Literary Lunch (Paperback)

The short piece by Jack Neely is purely made up, as are all his historical things based on the fiction book, Sutree. Reporters need to strive for the professionalism of major newspapers in large cities to create "mainstream" or "conventional" points of view. This is what media power is really about. At a subsequent meeting to be told about the design for a proposed "passenger friendly" center to wait in out of the elements, only one member of the committee attended; but a city official told the television reporter that the bus station would be 'airport quality.' I have not been in McGhee Tyson but, if it's as primitive as this 'biased' design for the transit center, it's proof of the backwardness of this town -- and the gullibility of the press.

As a correspondent on the CBS national t.v. network, Bernard Goldberg worked into his own segment on 'CBS Evening News' called "Bernard Goldberg's America." This gives him the right to feel self-important and proud, as the winner of seven Emmy Awards for news reporting. His latest book, 100 PEOPLE WHO ARE SCREWING UP AMERICA (AND AL FRANKEN IS #37), has been parodied by Jack Huberman's 100 PEOPLE WHO ARE REALLY SCREWING UP AMERICA: (AND BERNARD GOLDBERG IS ONLY #84). BIAS identified the problem. ARROGANCE offers a solution, Mr. Goldberg's solution.

Neely's writings are all fiction and opinion, none of it fact in any of the anthologies of Knoxville writers. They are all creative and not historical in any way. He does not read old newspapers, doesn't know how. He is only a studge for Metro Pulse.

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3.0 out of 5 stars Literary Lunch, December 25, 2002

By A Customer

This review is from: Literary Lunch (Paperback)

Reading this has me yearning for the produce aisle.... Zuchnini, cucumbers, squash, whatever....then I can really let loose!! Maybe move on to a frozen garlic bread...even a corn dog!

Gee! I love food!