New York Times Gives Good Review to Novel By Agnes Scott Professor

Back in December it was announced that professor Amber Dermont received a $25,000 National Endowment of the Arts grant to work on a novel.

She just received something that may be more valuable: a glowing review in The New York Times about a different novel that was just released, The Starboard Sea.

The story is about Jason Prosper, a wealthy kid from New York City who goes to a prep school in New England. The review by Janet Maslin carries the headlne "A Young Man of Privilege In Deep Water" and says,

It is a rich, quietly artful novel that is bound for deep water, with questions of beauty, power and spiritual navigation as its main concerns. The title refers not to the right side of a boat but to the right course through life, and the immense difficulty of finding and following it.

For more, read the full review online.

Dermont teaches English and creative writing at Agnes Scott. She also authored a short story collection, Damage Control, and is working on The Laughing Girl. The Laughing Girl uses as a backdrop the French air crash that killed 106 of Atlanta's cultural and civic leaders in 1962.

She's a graduate of the University of Iowa Writers’ Workshop and received her Ph.D. in literature and creative writing from the University of Houston.