The Most Southern Weekend on Earth!

July 9-10, 2010 In celebration of its Best of the South issue, Oxford American cordially invites you to a two-day shindig of Southern music and spirits in the heart of the Mississippi Delta on July 9-10, 2010. The Most Southern Weekend on Earth will include true Southern music, the best Southern cuisine, special talks with […]

Oxford American: The Southern Magazine of Good Writing, 11th Annual Southern Music Issue

Review by Allen Mendenhall      Well, butter my buns and call me a biscuit because the folks at the Oxford American have done it again! Each year this literary quarterly, proudly published by the University of Central Arkansas, releases a Southern music issue.      This year the editors have introduced a new theme—The Southern State […]

Southern Lit Conference in NOLA

If you have a more scholarly interest in southern literature, or maybe  just a hankering for etouffee, head down to New Orleans from April 8 to 11 for the annual meeting of the Society for the Study of Southern Literature.  The program features a reading by Cristina Garcia, author of The Aguero Sisters.