Politics and Prose | Aliah Wright and DC Frost — Now You Owe Me and A Punishing Breed - with Dr. Kate Gale @politicsprose | Uploaded September 2024 | Updated October 2024, 15 hours ago.
Watch authors Aliah Wright and DC Frost' book talk and reading at Politics and Prose bookstore in Washington, D.C.
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In Now You Owe Me, Ben and Corinthia spent years abducting college coeds, until one night they took the wrong victim.
No one knew witnessing their first murder at seven would propel Ben and his twin toward a killing spree in Pennsylvania. Racked with guilt, they vow to take just one more victim. Too bad they snatched the wrong woman . . .
Aliah Wright worked her way through college simultaneously as an editorial assistant for the Philadelphia Daily News and as a stringer for the Philadelphia Inquirer. A successful journalist, she spent her career working for a variety of news outlets. Those include the Associated Press, where she was a political correspondent, and the USA Today Network as the former entertainment editor for Gannett News Service. A graduate of Temple University, she lives with her family just outside her hometown of Philadelphia. This is her first novel.
A Punishing Breed takes place on the Los Angeles campus of Hesperia College, where the death of a philandering administrator raises questions of class, race, and gender. The murder brings together DJ Arias, an old-school Mexican American detective; Danny Mendoza, an ex-convict campus gardener; and The Watcher, a mysterious neighborhood recluse. As the investigation progresses, DJ becomes enmeshed in the insular world of a private elite liberal arts institution that in many ways replicates the class system of a medieval fiefdom. DJ, still grappling with memories of his beloved gang member cousin and failed marriage, feels out of place and finds himself stumped as The Watcher wends his way through the periphery of the murder investigation just out of DJ's grasp. Meanwhile, a dangerous murderer stalks the campus and may kill again. In its portrayal of culture clashes, human folly, and power inequities, A Punishing Breed embraces the rich culture of Los Angeles. The novel blends dark humor with loss and the vagaries of love, all amid the tense aftermath of a murder
DC Frost is a second-generation Angeleno. For almost twenty years, she has worked at a small private liberal arts college in the heart of Los Angeles. DC loves and respects Southern California, a melting pot of class and culture that is often misrepresented and misunderstood in popular fiction and media. DC lives in Eagle Rock, California, with her husband, who is an NPR journalist and reporter, and three rescue dogs. DC and her husband have an adult son, a filmmaker, who resides in Los Angeles.
Wright and Frost will be in conversation with Dr. Kate Gale, co-founder and publisher of Red Hen Press. She is the author of Under a Neon Sun from Three Rooms Press and The Loneliest Girl from the University of New Mexico Press and of seven books of poetry including The Goldilocks Zone and six librettos including Rio de Sangre, a libretto for an opera with composer Don Davis, which had its world premiere at the Florentine Opera in Milwaukee. Her opera on Esther was written for the singer Hila Plitmann and is in process with the composer Mark Abel.
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Watch authors Aliah Wright and DC Frost' book talk and reading at Politics and Prose bookstore in Washington, D.C.
PURCHASE Now You Owe Me HERE: politics-prose.com/book/9781636281568
PURCHASE A Punishing Breed HERE: politics-prose.com/book/9781939096173
In Now You Owe Me, Ben and Corinthia spent years abducting college coeds, until one night they took the wrong victim.
No one knew witnessing their first murder at seven would propel Ben and his twin toward a killing spree in Pennsylvania. Racked with guilt, they vow to take just one more victim. Too bad they snatched the wrong woman . . .
Aliah Wright worked her way through college simultaneously as an editorial assistant for the Philadelphia Daily News and as a stringer for the Philadelphia Inquirer. A successful journalist, she spent her career working for a variety of news outlets. Those include the Associated Press, where she was a political correspondent, and the USA Today Network as the former entertainment editor for Gannett News Service. A graduate of Temple University, she lives with her family just outside her hometown of Philadelphia. This is her first novel.
A Punishing Breed takes place on the Los Angeles campus of Hesperia College, where the death of a philandering administrator raises questions of class, race, and gender. The murder brings together DJ Arias, an old-school Mexican American detective; Danny Mendoza, an ex-convict campus gardener; and The Watcher, a mysterious neighborhood recluse. As the investigation progresses, DJ becomes enmeshed in the insular world of a private elite liberal arts institution that in many ways replicates the class system of a medieval fiefdom. DJ, still grappling with memories of his beloved gang member cousin and failed marriage, feels out of place and finds himself stumped as The Watcher wends his way through the periphery of the murder investigation just out of DJ's grasp. Meanwhile, a dangerous murderer stalks the campus and may kill again. In its portrayal of culture clashes, human folly, and power inequities, A Punishing Breed embraces the rich culture of Los Angeles. The novel blends dark humor with loss and the vagaries of love, all amid the tense aftermath of a murder
DC Frost is a second-generation Angeleno. For almost twenty years, she has worked at a small private liberal arts college in the heart of Los Angeles. DC loves and respects Southern California, a melting pot of class and culture that is often misrepresented and misunderstood in popular fiction and media. DC lives in Eagle Rock, California, with her husband, who is an NPR journalist and reporter, and three rescue dogs. DC and her husband have an adult son, a filmmaker, who resides in Los Angeles.
Wright and Frost will be in conversation with Dr. Kate Gale, co-founder and publisher of Red Hen Press. She is the author of Under a Neon Sun from Three Rooms Press and The Loneliest Girl from the University of New Mexico Press and of seven books of poetry including The Goldilocks Zone and six librettos including Rio de Sangre, a libretto for an opera with composer Don Davis, which had its world premiere at the Florentine Opera in Milwaukee. Her opera on Esther was written for the singer Hila Plitmann and is in process with the composer Mark Abel.
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