Southern Literary Review would like to acknowledge and recommend a few works of scholarship that, we think, will interest our readers. Each book is about Southern themes or literature, broadly defined. Jon Smith. Finding Purple America: The South and the Future of American Cultural Studies. Athens, Georgia: The University of Georgia Press, 2013. From […]
Allen Mendenhall Interviews David Bradley
October 23, 2013 by Leave a Comment
AM: Thanks for doing this interview on the occasion of the ebook release of your 1981 novel, The Chaneysville Incident. It’s been 32 years since the novel was first published. Does it speak differently to today’s audience than it did upon its initial release? Thanks for the opportunity. No writer really knows what a book, […]
Allen Mendenhall Interviews Jessica Dotta
September 25, 2013 by 1 Comment
Congratulations on your forthcoming trilogy, Jessica, and thanks for talking about it with me. Just because your books are set in England doesn’t mean you’re not a Southern author, right? Why don’t we begin with some publicity: tell us about your debut novel—and the whole trilogy for that matter. Thank you so much, Allen! I […]
Southern Literary Review Honors Medgar Evers
August 4, 2013 by Leave a Comment
This month, Southern Literary Review honors Medgar Evers, the African-American Civil Rights leader from Mississippi who was murdered in 1963. Our Read of the Month, reviewed by William Aarnes of Furman University, is Turn Me Loose: The Unghosting of Medgar Evers (University of Georgia Press, 2013), a collection of poems by Frank X. Walker. That review will be followed […]
Southern Independent Booksellers Alliance (SIBA) Announces Parapalooza
July 28, 2013 by Leave a Comment
A new movement is afoot. Now that sentence should be read aloud. And Parapalooza is just the place to do it. When was the last time you read something so good you wanted to read it aloud to the person sitting next to you just to share it? The Southern Independent Booksellers Alliance (SIBA) wants […]
Allen Mendenhall Interviews Karen White
June 12, 2013 by Leave a Comment
AM: Thank you so much, Karen, for taking time out of your busy schedule to do this interview with Southern Literary Review. We’re excited about the release of your new book, The Time Between. You’ve said that this book might be your favorite so far. Why is that? KW: I think that with each book […]