Chatting With Michael Morris. Flannery O’Connor on freaks. Faulkner, Capote & library cards in Literary News. Why Honey Boo Boo is lIke A Flannery O’Connor Character in (Non)Required Reading. A video of Salmon Rushdie’s visits to the homes of Southern writers & The Woman Who Was Mistaken for Flannery O’Connor in Southern Voice.

Fall reading, what your favorite book says about you, an illustration of a chance meeting with Faulkner. North Carolina’s new poet laureate on video. Inside the App for F. Scott Fitzgerald Weekend. Poetry readings, a literary murder mystery dinner in Alabama, book fests galore in Literary Events. And a pair of works about redemption in Southern Voice. Happy Literary Friday!

A BBC journalist’s love affair with literary New Orleans and the Deep South.

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!

The best beach reads, mysteries, chick lit and new releases from down South.