Praying to be a Fine Writer
Out this week, Flannery O'Connor's Prayer Journal shows another side of the master of Southern Gothic.
A Pair of Poems by Valerie Westmark
Oppressed, what have you? No home, ma’am, no word, no land. We have been scattered, pressed, lost. Can you hear
Literary Friday, Edition 81
A double Prayer Journal giveaway, a story by Jeffrey Eugenides in (Non)Required Reading, indie bookstores in Literary News, a books and booze scavenger hunt in Literary Events and new poetry in Southern Voice. Happy Literary Friday!
Tearing Down Tara
A Georgia preservationist and author seeks to save the South's architectural history one crumbling structure at a time.
First Public Library in the South Dedicated to Culinary Literature Now Open
See rare cookbooks, Southern menus from around the world, chefs' notes and more at the new Culinary Library in New Orleans.
Nostalgia for The Old South
A new book by Kat Robinson visits classic eateries in Arkansas, including Russellville's historic diner.
Get Your Ticket to the Savannah Food & Wine Festival
Stars of the culinary industry descend on coastal Georgia this week.
The Forest Retreat
Channel your inner Thoreau and escape to Homochitto National Forest in south Mississippi for a weekend of solitude.
Literary Friday, Edition 80
Notes from the Louisiana Book Festival, giveaway for Mrs. Lincoln's Dressmaker, Fannie Flagg on her female heroes and why Harper Lee is suing her hometown in Literary News. The Georgia Literary Festival and an Evening With Scarlett and Rhett in Literary Events, plus new fiction in Southern Voice. Happy Literary Friday!