Courter

Justin Courter's Skunk: A Love Story (Omnidawn Press) is a gimmicky novel whose gimmick almost works.

Point of View in Fiction 2009

Nonetheless, Justin Courter has admirably succeeded in taking a character so odd and behavior so potentially repugnant you might think nothing can be done with them and creating from them a surprisingly engaging novel.

Point of View in Fiction 2009

If it seems that Courter is daring you to read on after learning about his protagonist's habit, you should take the dare because you might find yourself hooked on Skunk.

Point of View in Fiction 2009

Of "Crescent City" (1984), a tale set in New Orleans about a Jewish family during the Civil War, novelist Gay Courter wrote in The Washington Post: "It's all here: moss and mansions, languid afternoons and clandestine evenings, repressed old maids and irresistible quadroons, the glamour and gore of war, chance encounters and missed opportunities."

Belva Plain, 95 Emma Brown 2010

I just finished "Three Little Words" by Ashley Rhodes Courter where she describes being quite small and hearing and being around all kinds of inappropriate (by our standards) sex, drugs, and criminality.

Yikes Roger Sutton 2008

Courter and Brody are running unopposed for second terms.

Philocrites: Officers' endorsements in the UUA presidential race. 2009

Courter and Brody are running unopposed for second terms.

Philocrites: March 2009 Archives 2009

When Courter took on Alicia, Cory and Richard Stevenson (like everyone else in the book, their identities have been changed), no one doubted that any home would be better than the one they came from.

On The Side Of The Child 2008

When Courter volunteered in 1989, after reading about a 2-year-old foster child who was murdered by his stepfather, she saw guardianship as a bit of community service.

On The Side Of The Child 2008

Courter the pragmatist is content to be their voice.

On The Side Of The Child 2008