LibGuides: Common Read: Highwire Moon by Susan Straight: Articles

Articles by and about Susan Straight and her work

Country Music
An essay by Susan Straight in the anthology, When Race Becomes Real : Black and White Writers Confront Their Personal Histories, by Bernestine Singley (p. 283).
Even
Author Susan Straight discusses racism in Southern California, in light of a speech made by Mexico's President Vicente Fox.
How I Write
Author Susan Straight offers thoughts on her career as a fiction writer and shares how she brings her ideas to paper.
Susan Straight: her hard-won lyrical vision issues from inside America's urban cauldron
Interview of novelist Susan Straight. Recognition of talent that crafted a novelist's career; Family background; Novels written.

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Literature Criticism Online
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Twentieth Century Literary Criticism
Reference Stacks-- PN 94 .T83 ( 145 vol.)