Storytelling. It is what makes Southerners, well, Southern. While the South has always been able to boast of great yarn spinners, one of the most famous of those writers is William Faulkner. After all, he won a Nobel Prize for Literature, so his genius is not in question. Faulkner was truly brilliant at capturing the […]
“William Faulkner in Holly Springs” by Sally Wolff
September 24, 2025 by Leave a Comment
Presented in William Faulkner in Holly Springs (University Press of Mississippi 2025), Sally Wolff’s extensive research on the influence of the town of Holly Springs, Mississippi, on the fiction of one of this country’s finest authors will be of interest to a number of reading audiences. Most obviously, scholars and fans of William Faulkner’s fiction […]
“Faulkner On and Off the Page” by Carl Rollyson
September 24, 2025 by Leave a Comment
Everyone remembers the first William Faulkner short story or novel they read. The rich tapestry of the characters is as memorable as the particularities of his fictional Yoknapatawpha County or that famously short chapter in As I Lay Dying. So it is no surprise that biographies of Faulkner’s life and career would be equally complex. […]
Donna Meredith interviews Brooks Eason, author of “I Remember Everything”
September 16, 2025 by Leave a Comment
Summary: Sam and Jeff Freeman become best friends on the day they meet in 1968, the year they turn eight. I Remember Everything traces their lives for more than five decades, from growing up to growing old, and follows them on grand adventures, including two magnificent road trips, the first to New England the year they […]
“Love You to Death” by Christina Dotson
September 15, 2025 by Leave a Comment
Love You to Death (Bantam 2025) by debut author Christina Dotson is an action-packed, smart, genre-blending story of a deep but dysfunctional friendship between two young women. The novel is superb—and superbly disturbing. While female friendships are the heart and soul of women’s fiction, the toxic relationship in Love You to Death is not the […]
Authors Nell Joslin and Elaine Neil Orr: A Conversation
September 15, 2025 by Leave a Comment
Description of Measure of Devotion by Nell Joslin: Set against the tumultuous backdrop of the American Civil War, this novel delves into the life of Susannah Shelburne, a thirty-six-year-old woman residing in South Carolina with her older husband, Jacob. Their son, Francis, defies his parents’ wishes by enlisting in the Confederate army, sparking bitter familial […]