Congratulations to Robert Gwaltney for his latest award: Georgia Author of the Year for First Novel. Read Dawn Major’s review of his novel The Cicada Tree. Dawn also interviewed Robert. And here is an essay Robert wrote about a writer’s residency. See all the winners in the 2023 contest here.
“With the Devil’s Help” by Neal Wooten
June 18, 2023 by Leave a Comment
Neal Wooten’s powerful memoir, With the Devil’s Help (Simon & Schuster 2022), begins with a knock-knock—and it isn’t a joke. The men in black suits have shown up at four-year-old Neal’s door and want to speak to his father. This is Neal’s introduction—and ours—to a family mystery: who are these men? Why are they threatening […]
A conversation about “Teaching Black History to White People” by Leonard N. Moore
May 17, 2023 by Leave a Comment
Teaching Black History to White People (University of Texas Press, 2021) by Leonard N. Moore is an important book that joins the ranks of Isabel Wilkerson’s Caste, Henry Lewis Gates’s Stony the Road: Reconstruction, White Supremacy, and the Rise of Jim Crow, and James W. Loewen’s Lies My Teacher Told Me in assuring that all […]
May Read of the Month: “Only Oona” by Tamatha Cain
May 3, 2023 by Leave a Comment
Tamatha Cain’s Only Oona (Orange Blossom Publishing, 2023) is not only a remarkable woman’s story; this outstanding historical novel shines as a glittering Who’s Who in the 1940s. With impeccable research, Cain brings Oona O’Neill Chaplin to life, stretching from her early years in the Bermuda countryside to teen years roaming the streets of Manhattan […]