Favorite author Lee Irby gets a write-up and a chance to talk about Confederate statues

Here's one from the Local Boy Makes Good file. Don't know if you saw Cathy Salustri's write-up in Creative Loafing about one of our favorite writers out at Eckerd College, Lee Irby. Here's the part we like. Kathy is talking about Lee's new book, Unreliable, a murder mystery with an unreliable narrator. Her  opinion is that Lee and his book haven't gotten enough attention lately. We concur. She calls the book "witty, engaging amd utterly engrossing." But the best part: She says the book is Literature, "the kind that should have a capital L. High praise, indeed! Anyway, if you haven't read it yet, we'd encourage you to do so. Lee's going to be speaking at a special event at Eckerd Confederate Monuments in the South: Place, Memory and Lingering Wounds. It's on October 23  at 7 p.m. in the Triton Room. He's speaking on the removal of Confederate statues, which a focus on the statue of Robert E. Lee in Richmond, Virginia, which is the setting for his book.