Interview with a Marketing Guru: Issue 3: Fall 2016

by Anna Faktorovich, D. Bruno Starrs (Contributor), Nichole DeWall (Contributor)

This issue includes a couple dozen scholarly book reviews from the editor, which cover women’s, worker’s, tax-payers, and other social rights. They also include some digressive thoughts on duels, authorship, revolutions and various other pertinent topics. The featured interview is with Mark Stevens, the CEO of MSCO and marketing guru and author of the Sucks series, who has advised world’s leading companies including Nike, IBM and GE. In the scholarly literary criticism section, D. Bruno Starrs, Australian academic, writes about Bruneian self-censorship in both literature and news publishing. Nichole DeWall, associate professor of English at McKendree University, writes about faith in George Herbert’s poetry. Then, the poetry section, includes innovative and conservative works from Kristina Nichole Brodbeck, Cecelia Burton, Louis Gallo and Gerard Sarnat. Among the stories, D. Seth Horton has contributed a series of three short fictions about U.S. presidents on the eve of a new president’s inauguration. Other stories by Susan Duke, Lynn Levin and David Pratt recall jam, travel and warfare. The spontaneous photography throughout, including the cover, is by Mark Wyatt.

134 pages, Paperback

Published December 20, 2016

About the author

Anna Faktorovich is the Director and Founder of the Anaphora Literary Press. She taught college English at the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley, Edinboro University of Pennsylvania and the Middle Georgia State College. She has a Ph.D. in English Literature and Criticism. She published two academic books with McFarland: "Rebellion as Genre in the Novels of Scott, Dickens and Stevenson" (2013) and "The Formulas of Popular Fiction: Elements of Fantasy, Science Fiction, Romance, Religious and Mystery Novels" (2014). Her British Renaissance Re-Attribution and Modernization Series, https://anaphoraliterary.com/attribution changes world-history. She has been editing and writing for the independent, tri-annual Pennsylvania Literary Journal since 2009. And she started the second Anaphora periodical, Cinematic Codes Review, in 2016. She has presented her research at the MLA, SAMLA, EAPSU, SWWC, BWWC and many other conferences. She won the MLA Bibliography, Kentucky Historical Society and Brown University Military Collection fellowships.