On this special episode of Rose Reads, Rose Solari discusses books from fellow small press, Santa Fe Writer’s Project, run by publisher, Andrew Gifford. Rose reads from two wonderful books, Wendy J. Fox’s If the Ice had Held and eightball by Elizabeth Geoghegan.

James J. Patterson is the reluctant scholar and on this episode of LFTRR he reads the from his essay of the same name. He also reads from books that have passed his “First Page Test” including “Night Train to Lisbon” by Pascal Mercier, “The Great Gatsby” by F. Scott Fitzgerald, “The Muse” by Jessie Burton, “The Tropic of Cancer” by Henry Miller, and “Confessions” by Jean-Jaques Rousseau.

In a new review from TLR (The Literary Review), Karin Falcone Krieger raves about Grace Cavalieri’s “Other Voices, Other Lives.”

On the newest episode of Rose Reads, poet Rose Solari discusses meeting the author of “Billy Christmas,” Mark Pritchard, in Oxford, and reads from the novel.