by Connie Connally | Oct 4, 2011 | History
Recently I read East of the West: A Country in Stories by Miroslav Penkhov. The book is a collection of short stories by a Bulgarian writer now living in the U.S., and all of the stories deal with Bulgaria and its people. Penkov’s English prose is more precise... by Connie Connally | Jun 4, 2011 | History
There are certain faces that we think of as representing great, powerful evil: Hitler, Stalin, and bin Laden to name a famous few. But the big names, the ones in the famous photos, have their ugly little brothers, too. (And sisters, I should add.) These lesser ones... by Connie Connally | Apr 26, 2011 | History
This book is a very vivid and candid memoir of the war years by a secular Hungarian Jew. Zsolt wrote for the liberal press before the war and was strongly opposed to fascism in all its forms. He paid for this and for his Jewish heritage during the anti-Semitic... by Connie Connally | Apr 19, 2011 | History
For the last five years I have been doing historical research, centering on Hungary during World War II and into the 1950’s, for some novels I’ve been writing. One of my novels is set in Budapest in 1944-45 at the terrible culmination of the war there. The other... by Connie Connally | Nov 2, 2009 | Writing
Sometimes persistence pays off–if not in money, in other rewards. A friend of mine, Ruth Tiger, recently had the satisfaction of seeing her first novel in print. Titled The Away Place, the book draws on Ruth’s rich and varied experience working with...