Joanna Poncavage

Seduced by Trotsky’s Assassin: John P. Davidson tells the inside story

Paris, 1938. A young social worker from Brooklyn, Sylvia Ageloff was in the French capitol to study the language. And as a member of Leon Trotsky’s inner circle, she was also an American delegate to an organizational meeting of the Russian revolutionary’s followers. And, marked by Josef Stalin’s secret agents,…

Joanna PoncavageFebruary 27, 2018

Nonfiction

Eve Ensler of ‘The Vagina Monologues’ Turns Her Body Inside Out

Her book, In The Body of the World (2013, Metropolitan Books), chronicles her Stage 4 uterine cancer diagnosis and treatment, and makes surprising connections between her disease and the cancers of war, poverty and pollution that plague our planet. And now through March, Ensler performs her play, also titled “In…

Joanna PoncavageFebruary 19, 2018

Nonfiction

‘Laura Meets Jeffrey’: An X-Rated ‘Literary’ Love Story

Anka Radakovich in “British GQ”: “Laura Meets Jeffrey" is a fascinating nonfiction "erotic memoir." Jeffrey Michelson chronicles the wildest, most intense sexual scene in New York City's history. This book is raunchy, dirty and disgusting. I couldn't put it down." Norman Mailer from his foreword: “Objective, funny, salacious, and perversely—dare I…

Joanna PoncavageFebruary 19, 2018

Fiction

It’s Alive!: ‘Black Mirror’ & TV’s New Golden Age of Science Fiction

Think of science fiction as a mirror for our times. Just as television’s first “Twilight Zone” (1959-1964) reflected cold war fears and anxieties, “Black Mirror,” the more recent Netflix anthology series is very much of the moment. Plots range wildly, from a dating site with ulterior motives. Genetic engineering by…

Joanna PoncavageFebruary 6, 2018

Fiction

25 Years Ago, Eleanor Hibbert’s Death at Sea Ends Life-Long Historical Romance

When English author Eleanor Hibbert died aboard a cruise ship 25 years ago on January 18, 1993, she didn’t die alone. Buried at sea somewhere between Athens and Egypt in the Mediterranean, Hibbert took with her at least eight pseudonyms, including Victoria Holt, Jean Plaidy, and Philippa Carr, to name…

Joanna PoncavageJanuary 18, 2018

Nonfiction

Healer and Star Child Ariyana Shares Her Spiritual Gifts

Ariyana, a beautiful Japanese-born California businesswoman turned channeler and healer, speaks with a comforting and confident voice. A multi-millionaire entrepreneur who discovered her inner Star Child, Ariyana is an old soul from the Seventh Dimension, here on this planet to lead it away from destruction. As she reveals in her…

Joanna PoncavageApril 17, 2015

Thrillers

Andrew Gross on why it’s sexy to write women as heroes

What would you do, if, on the day your whole life was crashing down around you, fate threw you a chance to turn it all around—would you take it? Would you take that chance, even if it were illegal, immoral, and dangerous? Hilary Cantor, the desperate single mom in Andrew…

Joanna PoncavageApril 25, 2014

Fiction

JUST ANOTHER DAY IN LEONARD LAND: Curvaceous corpses, heroic cops, pure evil, dry wit

Beautiful women are turning up dead on the beach, artfully arranged on lounge chairs in front of the Florida motel recently purchased by a former Detroit homicide detective. O’Clair had been hoping for a quiet retirement with a lower body count, but the clues are pointing to case files he…

Joanna PoncavageApril 1, 2014

Joanna Poncavage

Seduced by Trotsky’s Assassin: John P. Davidson tells the inside story

Eve Ensler of ‘The Vagina Monologues’ Turns Her Body Inside Out

‘Laura Meets Jeffrey’: An X-Rated ‘Literary’ Love Story

It’s Alive!: ‘Black Mirror’ & TV’s New Golden Age of Science Fiction

25 Years Ago, Eleanor Hibbert’s Death at Sea Ends Life-Long Historical Romance

Healer and Star Child Ariyana Shares Her Spiritual Gifts

Andrew Gross on why it’s sexy to write women as heroes

JUST ANOTHER DAY IN LEONARD LAND: Curvaceous corpses, heroic cops, pure evil, dry wit

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