Summer Reading List Preview

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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Literary Friday, Edition 57

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!

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Trimming Texas Cacti

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 …

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Gaston Street

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 …

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Welcome to the St. James Hotel

Spend the night in what was once the heart of New Orleans coffee and sugar trade.

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Set Sail From a Southern Port

See the world from a Southern port, a popular departure spot for cruise lines.

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Return From Georgia Lake Country

We were lucky to spend last Thursday through Saturday in Georgia’s scenic Lake Country on Lake Oconee, visiting Milledgeville, Greensboro and Madison.

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Porch Dogs Captures a True Southern Tradition

Nell Dickerson’s followup to “Gone” again includes photographs Southern homes, only this time with man’s best friend as the star.