In Caitlin Hamilton Summie’s beautiful debut novel, the heart of a family is peeled away, layer by layer, until we know each member intimately and with profound results. Sarah Macmillan cares deeply about the bonds that tie together the generations of her family. She’s a loving and attentive granddaughter, and it pains her to witness […]
Virginia Pye Interviews Caitlin Hamilton Summie, Author of “Geographies of the Heart”
Donna Meredith Interviews Betsy Reeder
Donna Meredith interviews Betsy Reeder for Southern Literary Review. Reeder is the author of an historical trilogy: Madam’s Creek (2017), Broomstraw Ridge (2019), and her latest, Salt in Boiling Water (2022). These stories center around the lives and loves of characters caught up in vivid events of the Civil War and its aftermath in southern […]
SLR Interviews Janisse Ray, Author of “Wild Spectacle”
SLR interviews J. William Lewis, Author of “The Essence of Nathan Biddle”
SLR: How long did it take to write The Essence of Nathan Biddle? JWL: I began writing the story in the mid-1980s. I wrote the first draft (which was largely biographical) fairly quickly and then put it aside for gestation. I also put it aside because I had a large and demanding law practice and […]
SLR Interviews Christy Alexander Hallberg
Dawn Major interviews Anjali Enjeti, Author of “Southbound”
DM: I met you during my residency as a graduate student while getting my MFA in creative writing at Reinhardt University where you are an instructor with the MFA program. In your essay, “Anger Like Fire,” you celebrate rage. That essay meant a lot to me, because as a woman, and as a Southern woman, […]