HomeArchivedLiterary Friday

Talking 50 years of 'In Cold Blood' with Ralph Voss, Nell Zink is not entirely demented, a Fitzgerald Poetry Contest and bluegrass at Andalusia coming up in November.

Get the 2016 Fall/Winter Reading List, celebrate Capote's birthday, watch the trailer for the first film about Maya Angelou and read new fiction.

Celebrating Truman Capote, F. Scott Fitzgerald's house for sale and Birmingham's Eat Drink Read Write Festival coming up in October.

Fall reads released this week, Matthew McConaughey goes Wild Turkey & a lecture series at Flannery O'Connor's Childhood home, plus September fiction.

Afterword to the Mississippi Book Festival, mourning Lady Chablis, the Ann Patchett interview & new fiction in Southern Voice.

Video from the Mississippi Book Festival, #SummerReads book puns, Ya-Yas at the Louisiana book Festival, 'Imogene in New Orleans' on audio and more.

Meet the authors attending the Mississippi Book Festival, bid on Truman Capote's ashes at auction next month and read some Mississippi essays in Southern Voice.

Preparing for fall reading, Christina Ricci pops champagne as Zelda Fitzgerald, Mississippi gets a new poet laureate and fiction about a high school football star.

Interview, chat & giveaway with Erika Marks, four Southern retreats for writers, book festival dates & new fiction about a high school football star.

Interview, chat & giveaway with John Gregory Brown, all of the books referenced in 'Gilmore Girls, and Carl Sandburg's Rootabaga Country on stage in August.