Search results
10 wrz 2009 · By Erika Dreifus. If you visit my Practicing Writing blog, you know that I'm a longtime fan of John Griswold (also known in the writing world as "Oronte Churm"). So I was thrilled when John announced that his first novel, A Democracy of Ghosts, was to be published by Wordcraft of Oregon.
4 lis 2010 · A Democracy of Ghosts is a work of historical fiction about the Herrin Massacre, an event that took place in 1922 in the small city of Herrin in Southern Illinois. The Herrin Massacre occurred after scab workers were brought downstate from Chicago to work a strip mine where United Mine Workers of America union members were on strike.
In 2009, my novel, ''A Democracy of Ghosts'', was published. It's set during the Herrin Massacre of 1922 and looks at the event through the perspectives of eight main characters. One of the characters is based on my grandfather, William J. Sneed, who was a state senator and the United Mine Workers Subdistrict President in Herrin at the time.
He is the author of A Democracy of Ghosts; Herrin: The Brief History of an Infamous American City; and Pirates You Don’t Know (Georgia). He has also written extensively (as Oronte Churm) at Inside Higher Ed and McSweeney’s Internet Tendency.
Need help with Act Three in Henrik Ibsen's Ghosts? Check out our revolutionary side-by-side summary and analysis.
The "ghosts" of duty and public opinion come to dominate and ruin generations of lives. Mrs. Alving feels that all people are haunted not only by their inheritances from specific people, but by general superstitions that exist within a community.
1 lip 2009 · A brilliant and lyrical historical novel, Democracy of Ghosts conjures the affairs behind one of the most violent labor disputes in American history--the brutal killing of 21 scabs and coal miners at a strip mine in Southern Illinois in 1921.
