A Review of Yuval Taylor’s ‘Zora and Langston’
A story of friendship and betrayal, 'Zora and Langston' tells the story of one of the most famous literary relationships of the 20th century.
A Review of Zora Neale Hurston’s ‘Barracoon’
Zora Neal Hurston’s posthumous release tells a complicated story of a life rife with loss and injustice, though it never loses track of the hope inherent in the present.
9 Literary Small Town Getaways
Visit nine small towns with charm, history, adventure — and literary roots.
Literary Friday, Edition 57
Summer Reading Preview. The Yazoo Library Association turns 175. Creative Nonfiction's Southern Sin issue, the first e-book Big Read in Alabama, a visit to the birthplace of Zora Neale Hurston and Charlaine Harris's threatening new ending in Literary News. Faulkner on film in (Non)Required Viewing. New Orleans' Saints and Sinners and Piccolo Spoleto literary festivals in events, and new fiction and a poem in Southern Voice. Happy Literary Friday!
Alice Walker Through the Years
A decade-dent birthday tribute to an American author, poet and activist.
Literary Friday
Dreaming and chatting with Amy Hill Hearth. David Fincher, Richard Blanco, Kevin Bacon and 'Buckwild' in Literary News. Pics from Girlfriend Weekend, Zora and an antiquarian book fair in Literary Events. And a poem about butter and short story about Florida crackers in Southern Voice. Happy Literary Friday!
Literary Friday
Chatting with Attica Locke. Edgar Allan Poe's birthday. Libraries, love affairs and literary puns in Literary News. Ernest Gaines, Poe and Zora Neale Hurston in Literary Events. And a horror story in Southern Voice. Happy Literary Friday!
Zora! Festival Coming Up
Each January, Zora Neale Hurston's hometown of Eatonville, Florida, remembers its native writer at the Zora! Festival. It's an appropriate time, as Hurston's birthday is January 7, and she died on January 28.
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