Maribel Garcia – Book Club Babble

Rebecca Faye Smith Galli (Becky), author of Rethinking Possible: A Memoir of Resilience, is a weekly columnist who lives in Baltimore, Maryland and writes about love, loss, and healing. A Morehead-Cain Scholar ... Read More...

“Oh No They Didn’t”: Amerilexicophobia

Maribel Garcia

Reviews

AMERILEXICOPHOBIA: What’s that you ask? According to Lynne Murphy, an American linguistics professor, but longtime U.K. resident, it is an illness. It’s a form of distress that the British suffer from, an af... Read More...

Is the Key to Being Resilient, Keeping Hope Realistic? An Interview with Memoirist, Rebecca Faye Smith Galli

Maribel Garcia

Book Club Questions, Interviews, Memoir, on Writing, Reviews

In this memoir, we meet Becky Galli. We are first introduced to the author's life while she is safely ensconced in a pretty idyllic 1960s southern upbringing-complete with the pastor father and a stay-at-ho... Read More...

Popular: The Power of Likability in a Status-Obsessed World by Mitch Prinstein

Maribel Garcia

Book Club Profiles, Book Club Questions, Interviews, on Books

What matters? Waking up with general good health? Hot water in the shower? That first mug of coffee in the morning? The knowledge that you have a roof over your head? Or is popularity? Our desire to be liked an... Read More...

Author Interview with Alicia DiFabio, author of Women Who Tri: A Reluctant Athlete’s Journey to the Heart of America’s Newest Obsession

Maribel Garcia

Interviews, Reviews

Ever wonder when the marathon and triathlon craze started? You know what I’m talking about – that time before your Facebook posts were inundated with scores of women from all walks of life crossing the finishin... Read More...

I Ran into Monica Lewinsky Recently and Learned Something…

Maribel Garcia

Literary Lagniappe

There I was, trying to think of ways that Book Club Babble could raise awareness about bullying since October is National Bullying Prevention Month. I started to mentally put together a list of painfully honest... Read More...

Haiti’s Poor and Their Pathway to a Better Life, An Interview with Steve Werlin

Maribel Garcia

Interviews

It’s hard to believe that while some of us live in a world of excess, others continue to live in extreme poverty. If you have ever felt helpless when hearing about how our fellow neighbors live and ever wondere... Read More...

Author Interview with Harriet Levin Millan, author of How Fast Can You Run?

Maribel Garcia

Interviews, Reviews

In her debut novel, How Fast Can You Run, poet Harriet Levin Millan (The Christmas Show, Girl in Cap and Gown) gives an insightful and carefully crafted account of just one of the many consequences of the secon... Read More...

“If you’ve met one person with autism…”

Maribel Garcia

Interviews

“If you've met one person with autism, you've met one person with autism.” Best quote ever. I learned it from Liane Kupferberg Carter’s latest memoir, Ketchup is my Favorite Vegetable: A Family Grows u... Read More...

New York Times Film Critic A.O. Scott Reflects on the “Wonderful Absurdity” of His Profession

Maribel Garcia

Interviews, Reviews

What comes to mind when you think critic? Better yet, what do general audiences think of when they think critic? If you ask my two teenagers, they might bring up Anton Ego, the imperious and acerbic food cr... Read More...

Unearthing The Lion Trees' Roots, an interview with Owen Thomas

Expanding Creative Horizons – The Appeal of Anthologies

Accept Warner Loughlin’s Invitation to Embrace the Acting Revolution!

The Author’s Cut with Susan Henderson

Abbey Lee Nash’s Debut YA, Lifeline, Explores Teen Addiction

The Author’s Cut with Rebecca Faye Smith Galli

Not That I Could Tell- An Interview With Jessica Strawser

Unearthing The Lion Trees' Roots, an interview with Owen Thomas

The Gaia Effect, a peek inside a not-so-far-off dystopian future

All the Ever Afters: A Powerful Rendition of the Stepmother’s Side of the Cinderella Story

“Oh No They Didn’t”: Amerilexicophobia

Is the Key to Being Resilient, Keeping Hope Realistic? An Interview with Memoirist, Rebecca Faye Smith Galli

How to Create a Successful Culture

The Big Sheep: A delightfully humorous dystopian novel

Paper Towns

Up for a Russia Spy Thriller Not on the Nightly News? Try Red Sparrow

Does the movie version of The Glass Castle hold up?

Is Everything, Everything Worth Watching?

Looking for an Adult Adventure Movie? Try The Lost City of Z

Lauren Oliver’s YA hit, Before I Fall, Hits the Silver Screen. Is it Worth Watching?

Fences: From Playwright to Screenplay

Why Read? My Top Eight Reasons

Is the Key to Being Resilient, Keeping Hope Realistic? An Interview with Memoirist, Rebecca Faye Smith Galli

Popular: The Power of Likability in a Status-Obsessed World by Mitch Prinstein

Best Books of 2017

The Author’s Cut with Rebecca Faye Smith Galli

“Oh No They Didn’t”: Amerilexicophobia

Is the Key to Being Resilient, Keeping Hope Realistic? An Interview with Memoirist, Rebecca Faye Smith Galli

Popular: The Power of Likability in a Status-Obsessed World by Mitch Prinstein

Author Interview with Alicia DiFabio, author of Women Who Tri: A Reluctant Athlete’s Journey to the Heart of America’s Newest Obsession

I Ran into Monica Lewinsky Recently and Learned Something…

Haiti’s Poor and Their Pathway to a Better Life, An Interview with Steve Werlin

Author Interview with Harriet Levin Millan, author of How Fast Can You Run?

“If you’ve met one person with autism…”

Author Maribel Garcia