A full recap of our Flannery O’Connor Symposium. Best books of 2012, bookshelves of famous readers, the next great Southern writer & a Hemingway cocktail recipe in Literary News. Carl Hiaasen and Truman Capote in (Non)Required Reading. Celebrating the holidays with Poe, Joel Chandler Harris and Zora Neale Hurston in Literary Events. And a new poem and short story in Southern Voice. Literary Friday is back!

Notes from the Louisiana Book Festival. A “sweet” book giveaway. Brad Pitt, Ignatius Reilly, first editions and the Fitzgeralds in Literary News. A fiction contest, Flannery O’Connor and Festival of Words in Literary Events. And “The New Deal” in Southern Voice. Happy Literary Friday!

Gore Vidal’s Southern ties. Literary Bad Boys. Gone Girl: The Movie. 11 Great Southern Novels from Wiley Cash. A huge Faulkner giveaway. Flannery O’Connor in Literary Events & a poem about watermelon. Happy Literary Friday!

5 Gifts for Lit Lovers. Repurposed libraries and characters from The Great Gatsby in Literary News. Lit Chat with Lydia Netzer. (Non)required reading of a Faulkner award-winning story. Support a noteworthy literary Kickstarter project. Save the date for upcoming book festivals across the South. And new fiction in Southern Voice. It’s Literary Friday!