Our complete Summer Reading List won’t launch until the beginning of June, but here’s a sneak peek at a few titles in bookstores now that would be perfect for Memorial Day weekend.
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Revisit one of the Gulf Coast’s best beaches this summer.
Debuting next week at the Cannes Film Festival, James Franco’s “As I Lay Dying” has its first trailer.
We’re excited to announce that we’ve been chosen as a Top 100 Seafood Blogger by Eat Gulf Seafood!
Summer Reading Preview. The Yazoo Library Association turns 175. Creative Nonfiction’s Southern Sin issue, the first e-book Big Read in Alabama, a visit to the birthplace of Zora Neale Hurston and Charlaine Harris’s threatening new ending in Literary News. Faulkner on film in (Non)Required Viewing. New Orleans’ Saints and Sinners and Piccolo Spoleto literary festivals in events, and new fiction and a poem in Southern Voice. Happy Literary Friday!
The words no longer carried any meaning:
“I am sorry for your loss.”
So rehearsed and animatronic-
Like the pitch of a very bored salesman …
The summer I met Clayton Wingate I’d been cleaning houses in Savannah for two years, enough time to see all kinds of people. Clayton was fresh out of law school up at Emory, and renting the third floor of the Pearsons’ house over on Gaston Street, a block or two west of Forsyth Park. All the houses on that block look pretty much like the others …
Spend the night in what was once the heart of New Orleans coffee and sugar trade.
See the world from a Southern port, a popular departure spot for cruise lines.
We were lucky to spend last Thursday through Saturday in Georgia’s scenic Lake Country on Lake Oconee, visiting Milledgeville, Greensboro and Madison.
Nell Dickerson’s followup to “Gone” again includes photographs Southern homes, only this time with man’s best friend as the star.
