Literary Legends of Yazoo Giveaway. National Poetry Month news. Hemingway’s Nobel Prize Acceptance Speech. Martin Luther King in The New York Times, and reader Tamara Welch on meeting Jill McCorkle. A “Z” booksigning in Literary Events, plus book festivals this weekend and a pair of poems in Southern Voice. Happy Literary Friday!

Debut of our Fall/Winter Reading List. A Twitter chat with Erika Robuck. Literature’s famous food scenes. University of South Carolina’s huge literary acquisition. Banned Books Week approaches. 52 great reads, 100,000 poets & a story about running moonshine. Happy Literary Friday!

An interview with author Erika Robuck and a Hemingway giveaway. O. Henry, The Oxford American and Edgar Allan Poe in Literary News. 25 fall books, Man in the Blue Moon and the unbelievable story of an ex-boyfriend living in the attic in (Non)Required Reading. The Last Flapper, book festivals and more in Literary Events, And an essay about the power of a Southern accent and new fiction in Southern Voice. Happy Literary Friday!

The author of “Hemingway’s Girl” talks about being inspired by Key West, channeling Papa for her new book and what literary figure she’s writing about next.

As Tropical Storm Isaac, expected to be a hurricane later today, approaches the Deep South, we think it’s important to have a few good books on hand. Of course you’ll need candles or flashlights to read them by, but that just makes it all the more cozy.