"Lottie Deno," the chief pseudonym of a woman born Carlotta Thompkins in Kentucky in 1844, properly belongs to what cultural critic Greil Marcus has called "the old, weird America"-- the backdrop to the sanitized textbook-ready story of our republic, a shadowlands harboring tricksters and cowards, carnies and preachers and confidence...
ON BOOKS | OPINION: Historic ‘Lottie Deno’ is subject of historical fiction novel
March 23, 2024 at 4:00 p.m.