Author: Mary Ann Zehr
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Mary Ann Zehr, Contributor
Book Review: Letter-Writing Bonds
Now, when I re-read batches of letters that one or the other of us saved, I find the vulnerability in them astounding.
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Book Review: Workplace Shenanigans
There’s a certain amount of masking that people do so that their co-workers don’t learn too much about them
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Book Review: A Family and Technology
“A family is like an algorithm,” the character Lorelei Shaw declares to her husband, Noah Cassidy, in the opening chapter of Bruce Holsinger’s novel, Culpability.
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Book Review: Imaginative Realms in Familiar Settings
It’s entertaining to see how places I have visited dozens or even hundreds of times are settings for short stories in the book. The fantastical spin on familiar places is amusing and triggers my imagination.
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Book Review: Friendly City
By Mary Ann Zehr, contributor A monthly column in 2025 by a local teacher and reader about connecting with books and taking in Harrisonburg’s literary scene. ~ Samatar, Sofia. Friendly City: A Year of Walks. Quinx Books, 2025. ~ Writer Sofia Samatar spent a whole year taking long walks in Harrisonburg, observing what the outside …
Virginia Poets to Lift Words Off the Page
Even when the words in Nursery Rhymes in Black remain on the page and I read them silently, they are something to be reckoned with.
Book Review: A Fairy Tale (with Startling Realism)
In the fairy tale of The Witch’s Journey, Harrisonburg author Keith Miller immerses readers in a quaint and magical world that on the surface may seem only fantastical.
Book Review: An Unpublished (Until Now) 19th-Century Novel
I wasn’t sure how to approach reading a novel released this year but written nearly 150 years ago by a black man who lived through the Civil War. So I read the companion pieces first.
