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STEELE INTERVIEWS: Joanna Luloff
While on assignment in India, Clare, an international journalist, becomes stricken by an illness which destroys her memory. Once back in the states she’s forced to rely on her husband Charlie and her...
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STEELE INTERVIEWS: author Meredith Jaeger
Boardwalk Summer is the perfect summer novel and not just because its title includes summer. The novel features two timelines of young women in Santa Cruz. In 1940, Violet Harcourt is crowned Miss...
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STEELE INTERVIEWS: Hallie Ephron
“Vanessa looked back and forth between the photograph and the doll. The doll in Janey’s arms was the right size. It had on a similar long while dress and what was left of its blond hair was tied with...
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STEELE INTERVIEWS: singer/songwriter Kathryn Claire
The songs on the latest album, Bones Will Last, from Portland singer/songwriter Kathryn Claire exude gorgeous melancholia through violin and strings-based arrangements. Lovely, bold chamber/folk...
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STEELE INTERVIEWS: Dan Chaon
Reasonably settled in Cleveland, Ohio, psychologist Dustin Tillman learns that his adopted brother, Rusty, will imminently be released from prison. DNA evidence cleared Rusty, who received a life...
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STEELE INTERVIEWS: Furniture Girls
Seattle, Wash. electro-rock band Furniture Girls formed in 2007 and creates raw, energetic and thoughtful music. The band infuses a soulsy, bluesy sound into its already cool, funky eclecticness on...
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STEELE INTERVIEWS: L.A. Witch
All-female alt-rock trio L.A. Witch is currently on tour supporting The Kills. On its Facebook page the band describes its genre fittingly as reverb-soaked punked out rock. Gutteral, churning,...
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STEELE INTERVIEWS: Illeana Douglas
Do not expect to find gossipy stories in Illeana Douglas’s memoir I Blame Dennis Hopper: And Other Stories From a Life Lived In and Out of the Movies . Instead this reads as a genuine love story with...
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STEELE INTERVIEWS: fashion designer Kelly Dempsey [Project Runway]
Project Runway contestant Kelly DempseyFresh, honest, vivacious Boston fashion designer Kelly Dempsey is in the final four of Project Runway S14. The pretty and talented 31-year-old Bostonian has two...
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STEELE INTERVIEWS: singer/songwriter Sydney Eloise
I love supporting women in the arts particularly women in music as I’ve been a music critic for 20 years. There’s still not enough parity. It’s still unusual to see all-female or female-fronted bands...
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STEELE INTERVIEWS: comedian [and founder of stand-up showcase Broad Appeal]...
I met the very funny, smart and lovely Christa Weiss when she was performing at V to Shining V. Graphic designer by day and stand-up comic at night, Christa Weiss started Broad Appeal– a comedy...
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STEELE INTERVIEWS: author Alex Dolan
Paramedic and firefighter Kali volunteers as part of the right-to-die movement. she helps the terminally ill die. Despite her youth, the twenty-something Kali knows what she’s doing—she’s worked 27...
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STEELE INTERVIEWS: author Christopher Moore [Secondhand Souls]
Secondhand Souls By Christopher Moore. William Morrow| August 25, 2015|352 pages |$26.99| ISBN: 978-0-061779787 In Secondhand Souls, the sequel to New York Times bestselling author Christopher Moore’s...
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STEELE INTERVIEWS: Beth Bombara
Credit: Nate Burrell St. Louis, Missouri-based musician Beth Bombara creates Americana/folk songs with bluesy undertones and earthy vocals. Growing up in Grand Rapids, Mich., Bombara played in a punk...
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STEELE INTERVIEWS: Petty Morals
This Salem, Mass. all-girl electro-pop band with punk edginess has quickly become my new favorite local band. The shows exude energy, attitude and fun. Catchy songs with a mix of sweetness and...
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STEELE INTERVIEWS: Shireen Jilla
I recently wrote a review of the wonderful novel The Art of Unpacking Your Life by Shireen Jilla. It centers on a group of college friends who take a trip together 20 years after college. Much happens...
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STEELE INTERVIEWS: Robin Black
I’ve been a Robin Black fan since the publication of her short-story collection If I Loved You, I Would Tell You This five years ago. Her debut novel Life Drawing made my 12 Best Novels of 2014 list....
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STEELE INTERVIEWS: Hallie Ephron
When she discovers her screenwriter father dead in his swimming pool, Deirdre Unger finds herself at the center of the suspicious death. It’s 1985 and old Hollywood secrets resurface. Decades ago...
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STEELE INTERVIEWS: Claudia Myers
Fort Bliss, written and directed by Claudia Myers, came out in December. It’s the second feature film for Myers. She also wrote and directed Kettle of Fish starring Gina Gershon and Matthew Modine....
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STEELE INTERVIEWS: Judy Melinek, M.D. and T.J Mitchell [Working Stiff]
Released last year, Working Stiff: Two Years, 262 Bodies and the Making of a Medical Examiner by Judy Melinek, M.D. and T.J. Mitchell is one of the most riveting, darkly humorous and moving memoirs...
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