POSTS BY John McManus
John McManus is the author of the novel Bitter Milk and the short story collections Born on a Train and Stop Breakin Down. His fiction has appeared in many journals, including Tin House, Harvard Review, The Oxford American, Ploughshares, Columbia, Grist, and American Short Fiction. He lives in Norfolk and teaches in the MFA creative writing program at Old Dominion University. Links to his publications can be found at his website, http://johnmcmanus.net/ .
What if All Hampton Roads Read ‘Home Street Home: The Virginia Beach Chronicles’
By John McManus
The first-place novel, Home Street Home: The Virginia Beach Chronicles, which looks at homelessness in Virginia Beach, will be our inaugural spring (April/May) selection.
The Ballot: What If All Hampton Roads Read the Same Book?
By John McManus
After a grueling primary season, a protracted and mercurial campaign draws finally to a close. I speak, of course, about the only contest on locals’ minds: the vote for a book with which to inaugurate our new region-wide book club.
Books Set in Tidewater: A Primer
By John McManus
Maybe someone can volunteer to read all nineteen of the current nominees and report back on their relative merits before next Friday.
What If All Hampton Roads Read the Same Book?
By John McManus
As a first selection for What If All Hampton Roads Read the Same Book, any title I name above would suit me except the novelization of G.I. Jane.
Op-ed: How the Right Masterfully Manipulates the Left Time After Time
By John McManus
Assuming Republicans truly want what they fight for, they’re the smarter politicians, braver and more astute than their opponents.
John McManus: This Op-ed Enjoys the Immunities of Personhood
By John McManus
Meet Del. Bob Marshall, Possibly the Most Backward Man in Virginia
Op-ed: The 11th Biblical Plague: Virginia Beach’s Jeffrey McWaters
By John McManus
I’ve always figured that if a legislator uses his public platform to scream loudly and daily that gays are attacking his family and country and morals and marriage, we might as well attack back.
Op-ed: The Year McDonnell’s Christian Right Took Over Virginia
By John McManus
A general rule: the more draconian a bill, the more it puts ideology ahead of common sense, the more likelihood it will pass.
Op-ed: Virginia Laws Treat Women Unfairly, and It’s Getting Worse
By John McManus
There are many places in the world where laws pertaining to health care and privacy rights treat women and men equally. The Commonwealth of Virginia does not seem to want to be one of them.
Op-ed: Train from NFK to Richmond Best Local News All Year
By John McManus
Starting in December, anyone within walking distance of a Tide station will be able to journey all up and down the Eastern Seaboard by public transit, without need of a car, bus, or taxi, changing trains exactly once: at Harbor Park.
If You Read the Books John Read, with John McManus
By John McManus
“Neutrality and objective distance are places I’ve never been able to find.” –Saviano, Gomorrah.
Yes We Can! (halt the gay equality movement in its tracks)
By John McManus
Obama’s marginalization of gays as “the crazy left,” and his turning his back on Don’t Ask Don’t Tell.
McManus’ If You Read the Paper, Live from South Africa
By John McManus
You’re maybe wondering why I traveled to South Africa in the first place. The answer is simple: to escape Christmas music.
Fiction by John McManus: Mr. Gas
By John McManus
Mama said the way to keep a diary was to write down the opposite of everything that happened, so she gave Jason a blank book so each night he could tell how all the boys played kick the cans until the boogeyman came.
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