Celebrating Harper Lee’s birthday. National Poetry Month news & another chapbook giveaway. Reese Witherspoon and the fallibility of the Southern woman, Gatsby Girls and the most well-read cities in Literary News. The South Carolina Book Festival in Literary Events & a new poem in Southern Voice. Happy Literary Friday!

Music, class and literacy in Harper Lee’s timeless novel by Carrie Allen Tipton.

A poetry chapbook and Eudora Welty birthday giveaway. Jill McCorkle in The New York Times. New Orleans poet Kelly Harris on what keeps her grounded, Faulkner’s Nobel Prize medal up for auction and the 2014 Great American Fiction Contest. Plus, lots of book festivals in Literary Events and today’s poem of the day in Southern Voice.

The mother of all booksignings. Literary cakes good enough to eat. News on Flannery O’Connor’s Prayer Journal. Voting for The Great American Novel. Amy Franklin-Willis in (Non)Required Viewing. To Kill a Mockingbird in Literary Events, and new fiction in Southern Voice. Happy Literary Friday!

September 30 kicked off the American Society of Journalists and Authors’ Banned Books Week. Started in 1982, the campaign was a reaction to schools and libraries pulling books off the shelves because of their objections to language and subject matter.