Archives for May 2011

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Mama’s Comfort Food, by Rhett DeVane

Mama’s Comfort Food By Rhett DeVane Reviewed by Peggy Kassees Click to Buy      “The secret to outliving cancer is positive living . . . I didn’t mean to think positive; I meant to live in a positive way.”  That’s an excerpt from Mama’s Comfort Food, by Rhett DeVane. Smooth as whipped butter, sweet as […]

Meet Author Shellie Rushing Tomlinson

Recently, SLR Contributor, Rhett DeVane, had the pleasure of reading and reviewing Sue Ellen’s Girl Ain’t Fat, She Just Weighs Heavyby Shellie Rushing Tomlinson. When she contacted the author for this interview, Shellie was busy preparing for the possible worst-case scenario of the Mississippi River flooding her hometown. Even with this, she promptly replied with her usual humor and distinctive Southern […]

Heather Cousins

     Heather Cousins holds degrees from Bryn Mawr College, Johns Hopkins University, and the University of Georgia. She has poems published or forthcoming in The Sycamore Review, Slipstream, Alehouse, and Pleiades.      Her first book, Something in the Potato Room, was published by Kore Press in 2009. She lives in Monroe, Georgia, with her husband […]

Peggy Kassees

     Peggy Kassees has written poetry and short stories since she was a child.  She designed and wrote for Flamingo Floyd’s Fantastic Florida House, a website about Florida for children from 2004 – 2007.  Her novel, an urban fantasy, is scheduled for publication October, 2011.  Les Gens: Into the Night, asks you to think of all the infinite […]

What Southern Titles Inspire Kerry Madden?

     In honor of Mother’s Day, SLR contributors are letting you in on their deepest secrets by confessing the names of books by southern female authors that have most influenced their lives.      For novelist Kerry Madden, the list is topped with two of Lee Smith’s works: Fair and Tender Ladies as well as Oral History. Click to Buy Click to Buy        […]