2014 Fall/Winter Reading List
27 of the latest mysteries, thrillers, historical romances and author debuts to curl up with through the winter.
Breakfast at Tiffany's Added to National Film Registry
The film version of Truman Capote's masterpiece novella was added to the National Film Registry of the Library of Congress yesterday.
Literary Friday
A full recap of our Flannery O'Connor Symposium. Best books of 2012, bookshelves of famous readers, the next great Southern writer & a Hemingway cocktail recipe in Literary News. Carl Hiaasen and Truman Capote in (Non)Required Reading. Celebrating the holidays with Poe, Joel Chandler Harris and Zora Neale Hurston in Literary Events. And a new poem and short story in Southern Voice. Literary Friday is back!
Literary Friday
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.
Happy Birthday to Truman Capote!
Capote's best known work may be "Breakfast at Tiffany's," set in New York City, and he died in 1984 in Los Angeles, but the writer was originally a son of the South. He was born September 30, 1924, in New Orleans and was raised in Alabama.
Literary Friday
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!
Literary Friday
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!
Summer Reading List 2012
The best beach reads, mysteries, chick lit and new releases from down South.
Literary Friday
A special giveaway of "Helen Keller in Love." Inside the App: Ivy Green. "The Raven" in theaters. Summer reading & the real-life "Breakfast at Tiffany's" townhouse in the news. It's time for Literary Friday!