The Gift Give me the gift of time to travel the byways and back roads And fresh eyes to see fat, contented cows grazing in green lush pastures of sweet sweet clover And the privilege to stop where and when I please at any roadside stand for big Vidalia onions and ripe […]
Sue Ellen’s Girl Ain’t Fat, She Just Weighs Heavy, by Shellie Rushing Tomlinson
April 17, 2011 by Leave a Comment
Click to Buy Sue Ellen’s Girl Ain’t Fat, She Just Weighs Heavy: The Belle of All Things Southern Dishes on Men, Money, and Not Losing Your Midlife Mind By Shellie Rushing Tomlinson Available: May 3, 2011, (Berkley Trade) Reviewed by: Rhett DeVane Author Shellie Rushing Tomlinson understands everything there is to know about Southern Belles, from how […]
Year of Our Lord: Faith, Hope and Harmony in the Mississippi Delta
April 10, 2011 by Leave a Comment
Click to Buy Year of Our Lord : Faith, Hope and Harmony in the Mississippi Delta Written by: T.R. Pearson Photography by: Langdon Clay Review by: Paul H. Yarbrough Year of Our Lord is a biography of an extraordinary man named Lucas McCarty who claims he is “white on the outside but black […]
Meet Kevin Brockmeier, Author of The Illumination
April 2, 2011 by Leave a Comment
Kevin Brockmeier is the author of the novels The View from the Seventh Layer, The Brief History of the Dead, The Truth About Celia, Things That Fall from the Sky, and two children’s novels. His stories have appeared in The New Yorker, Tin House, McSweeney’s, The Oxford American, The Best American Short Stories, O. Henry Prize Stories and […]
April Read of the Month: The Illumination, by Kevin Brockmeier
April 1, 2011 by Leave a Comment
Click to Buy The Illumination (Pantheon, Feb. 2011) by Kevin Brockmeier Review by Sean Ennis Kevin Brockmeier’s newest novel, The Illumination, describes a world where all physical pain—from injuries or acute disease or chronic ailments—manifests itself as light. A sliced thumb, lung cancer, arthritis, even acne shine in ways to match […]