In honor of Mother’s Day, we’ve asked our contributors to recognize Southern female authors who have had the greatest influence on their lives. “I have to go with Fannie Flagg,” says SLR contributor Rhett DeVane. “I know there are so many classics, but Fried Green Tomatoes and Can’t Wait to Get to Heaven are two of […]
Archives for May 2011
Harvard Offers Class on Southern Literature
Think Southern Lit doesn’t have broad impact in other regions? Harvard is offering a class in this year’s Summer School Writing Program that will examine Southern works in conjunction with the Harlem Renaissance. Specifically, the course is described as follows: “Beginning with the renaissance in Southern letters that emerged in the early 1920s, and […]
Felicia S. W. Thomas’ Debut Novel a Delight for All Ages
80 Proof Lives by Felicia S. W. Thomas Review by Donna Meredith Click to Buy 80 Proof Lives, by Felicia S. W. Thomas, is set in the small town of Quincy, Florida, where there’s nothing for a teenage girl to do but “fight, drink, have babies, or some combination of the three.” […]
Bone Key Elegies by Danielle Sellers
Bone Key Elegies by Danielle Sellers Reviewed by Heather Matesich Cousins Danielle Sellers’s first book of poetry, Bone Key Elegies, is a staring contest with death. In this impressive, autobiographically-inspired debut, Sellers examines Key West, evoking the geography of her childhood and adolescence. The poet-speaker of these poems has moved from Key […]