Nashville’s Coffeeshop Culture
Where to find the best cup of brew, along with a few celebrities and a light lunch, in Music City.
Literary Friday, Edition 88
Why 12 Years a Slave is having an exceptional week, literary resolutions for the New Year, opening of the first bookless public library system in Texas and tweets from Key West Literary Seminar in literary news. Zora! Festival in events, and a fictional account of the night Florida's beloved tree The Senator went up in flames in Southern Voice. Happy Literary Friday!
The Night It Happened
Yes, I caused it to light up. When it comes to harming a thing, I suppose, I was always one to go to it. But listen to me. It weren’t done out of meanness. It was done out of my own disregard
The Real Madame Lalaurie & Other Legends From American Horror Story: Coven
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The Decemberists and The Avett Brothers Jamming on an Ocean Voyage
A new album from Dallas, Texas-based folk band Fox & the Bird is out today.
'12 Years a Slave' Wins Golden Globe
Louisiana-filmed slave memoir takes home Best Motion Picture, Drama.
New HBO Series Set in Louisiana Premieres Sunday
Woody Harrelson and Matthew McConaughey play two detectives hunting a serial killer in Louisiana across 17 years.
Literary Friday, Edition 87
Flowers in the Attic on Lifetime, Karen White completes her Tradd Street series, The New Yorker profiles Jennifer Weiner and 16 Books to Read Before They Hit Theaters in Literary News. The Savannah Book Festival in Literary Events, plus new fiction by MB Sellers inspired by the legend of Papa Legba. Happy Literary Friday!
Legba
His smallness was exacerbated by the wide-brimmed straw hat that was crooked low over his face. At first, I thought it was black, but the sun beat down and I shielded my eyes and at once it was red. A deep ruby. So deep that it turned black once more. He clutched at his cane