Anna Schachner is the author of the novel You and I and Someone Else and the forthcoming short story/flash collection The Lovely Woods Are Yours. She’s been a music journalist, jewelry designer/creator, college professor, and lit journal editor but is now a freelance writer/editor and book coach in Atlanta. She is at work on a […]
Dawn Major interviews Andrew Diaz Winkelmann, author of “The Guava Tree”
June 1, 2025 by 1 Comment
In January of 2024, I attended an author showcase hosted by A Novel Idea (ANI). ANI is an incredible organization for the Atlanta writing community connecting both emerging and established authors with readers. I had heard Andrew Diaz Winkelmann’s name circulating amongst other author friends, but I didn’t know anything about his debut novel, The […]
Join the Southern Summer Book Club
May 30, 2025 by Leave a Comment
Join the Southern Summer Book Club – Southern Review of Books
“The Cheese Biscuit Queen Kiss My Aspic!” by Mary Martha Greene
May 14, 2025 by Leave a Comment
Are you hungry? Because if you are, Mary Martha Greene will send you straight into the kitchen with her new book, The Cheese Biscuit Queen Kiss My Aspic!. You’re probably not going to get past the first couple of recipes in this book before you have to gather your ingredients and make one of them. […]
Mary Ellen Thompson interviews Mary Martha Greene, author of “The Cheese Biscuit Queen Kiss My Aspic!”
May 14, 2025 by Leave a Comment
Introduction: I have known Mary Martha Greene for years and have consumed more of her famous cheese biscuits than I care to admit. If there is a cocktail party in the lowcountry of South Carolina that doesn’t have a plate of her cheese biscuits—well, I won’t cast aspersions. Mary Martha’s newest book, The Cheese Biscuit […]
“Good Eye, Bad Eye” by Jeanne Malmgren
May 14, 2025 by Leave a Comment
Readers of Jeanne Malmgren’s engaging memoir, Good Eye, Bad Eye, will find the universal themes and the clarity of her writing style appealing. From her personal story of trauma following a childhood eye injury, life truths emerge as Jeanne struggles to find her way in the world. This is not another poor-pitiful-me memoir. Instead, it […]