Essay by Steven Croft The poet, a “poet,” is a crafter of words, and if very successful, maybe a magician of words. A philosopher, if wise, gives great thought to fundamental ideas and questions, even if wisdom knows final answers will remain elusive. Stephen Corey’s volume, As My Age Then Was, So I Understood Them: New […]
The World That I Know: Stephen Corey’s “As My Age Then Was, So I Understood Them: New & Selected Poems, 1981-2020”
March 17, 2025 by Leave a Comment
“Did Joyce inspire Gone with the Wind?” Essay by Ivan Visioli PhD
December 30, 2024 by Leave a Comment
In the seventh chapter “Aeolus” of James Joyce’s Ulysess, we find the words “Gone with the wind. Hosts at Mullaghmast and Tara of the kings.” Obviously, the name “Tara” associated with the words “Gone with the wind” bring to mind the title of Margaret Mitchell’s novel, so much so that the Italian translators, from Giulio […]
Dawn Major reviews “The Best of the Shortest: a Southern Writers Reading Reunion”
November 19, 2024 by 1 Comment
Introduction: A year ago, on the weekend before Thanksgiving I travelled from Atlanta to Fairhope with a fellow author and friend, John Williams, to attend the first (and as I’ve been told) the last Southern Writers Reading Reunion. The Best of the Shortest: a Southern Writers Reading Reunion anthology was going to be introduced and […]
MAKING THE ROAD AS YOU GO: GAIL GODWIN’S “QUEEN OF THE UNDERWORLD”
August 15, 2023 by Leave a Comment
Essay by Kerstin W. Shands A whirlwind story of news-chasing and publishing seen through the eyes of a young heroine, Gail Godwin’s Queen of the Underworld (Ballantine 2007) recalls the dynamic newspaper offices sparkling with collegial competition and smart repartee in American movies from the 1940s. During her first week as a staff reporter at […]
Memory and the Music of Time: “Evenings at Five” by Gail Godwin
July 4, 2023 by Leave a Comment
ESSAY BY KERSTIN W. SHANDS If love and work, as Freud proposed, are the key components of human happiness, the novelist-composer couple in Gail Godwin’s Evenings at Five have been supremely blessed. For close to three decades, Rudy and Christina have been living and working together in superb synchronicity and creative resonance. When their passionate […]
“Cormac McCarthy: The Great Optimist of American Literature” by James Wade
June 30, 2023 by Leave a Comment
Associate Editor Dawn Major has not had the pleasure of meeting author, James Wade, who wrote the following piece, “Cormac McCarthy: The Great Optimist of American Literature.” She met him through another fellow Southern author. If anything, the Southern writing world is a small one. Everyone knows everyone in the end, well…maybe not Cormac McCarthy […]