Quarantivity: Book Clubs Around the South and Beyond
Book clubs are opportunities to read more disguised by social time with friends, something we all need right now.
Literary Friday, Edition 194
An interview with Southern Gothic poet Susan Swartwout, 5 novels featuring strong Southern women, Anderson Cooper on Truman Capote and Suzanne Vega sings Carson McCullers.
Literary Friday, Edition 89
Interview, chat and giveaway with Wiley Cash, plus making pie for 'Labor Day,' 50 Books By Women Authors, 'The Great Gatsby' in Alabama this weekend and a new poem about remembering the South. Happy Literary Friday!
Wiley Cash's Next Homerun
Upon the debut of his second novel, the North Carolina author talks about his sense of place, love of baseball and responsibility to his community.
Literary Friday, Edition 79
The Undramatic Life of Shirley Ann Grau & the Louisiana Book Festival this weekend, Wiley Cash on libraries, Faulkner's Jazz Age drawings and honoring the dead through the Southern Gothic in Literary News. Georgia Literary Festival in events, plus a poem about Edna Pontellier in Southern Voice. Happy Literary Friday!
Fall/Winter Reading List 2013
24 new releases, including several author debuts and a few classics, that span from mystery to memoir, spiritual to historical and romantic to coming of age.
Literary Friday, Edition 60
Questioning Alice Walker as a mother, Wiley Cash up for an award, Faulkner and Hemingway memorabilia up for auction and John Berendt pops up in New Orleans in Literary News. A culinary library fundraiser and summer booksignings in Literary Events. And new fiction from Alabama in Southern Voice.
Notes From the Louisiana Book Festival
Held October 27 on the grounds of and inside the Louisiana State Capitol in Baton Rouge, the Louisiana Book Festival was a wonderful way to spend a sunny, chilly day.
Guide to the Louisiana Book Festival
This Saturday, October 27, Louisiana's State Library in Baton Rouge and the Louisiana Center for the Book host the Louisiana Book Festival - a free literary celebration with 148 authors and more than 100 programs.
Summer Reading List 2012
The best beach reads, mysteries, chick lit and new releases from down South.