Seelbach Cocktail (1917)
A classic cocktail using Charleston's Virgil Kaine High-Rye Bourbon.
6 Albums to Kickstart Your Summer
Give these new albums a listen whether it's during your car ride into work or cruising to that vacation destination.
Retreat to The Southern Hotel
Sporting a full restoration, this historic hotel on New Orleans' Northshore is a luxurious base for exploring the area's many culinary and outdoor attractions.
Literary Friday, Edition 156
Chat with Kirker Butler, a Southern Gothic fiction contest, Flannery O'Connor's classics get a new look, the Decatur Book Festival in Literary Events, plus a poem about Zinnias. Happy Literary Friday!
The Boy on the Hill
The hill at the top of Oakwood cemetery had stayed relatively vacant. Years ago, a child had been buried up there, and since then everyone in town had kept their own dead at least a hundred feet away
Excerpt From 'Pretty Ugly'
Kirker Butler's debut novel is a super sharp satire of the pageant world set in his native Kentucky.
'Lonely Hunter' Readalong Notes: Part One
Cerith Mathias offers her thoughts for discussion on part one of 'The Heart is a Lonely Hunter' by Carson McCullers.
Literary Friday, Edition 155
Interview, chat & giveaway with Karen White, Annie Barrows' favorite books about small towns, Southern lit on sale & new fiction about a gardener. Happy Literary Friday!
Lummox
His frame was square, his head a lump of coal, and his arms hung like sausages from his shoulders. No one knew where he’d come from or where he stayed