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Book Reviews
- The Queen of Palmyra, by Minrose Gwin
- “A Clear View of the Southern Sky: Stories,” by Mary Hood
- “A Different Harbor,” by Elizabeth Genovise
- “A Field Philosopher’s Guide to Fracking,” by Adam Briggle
- “A Late Encounter With the Civil War,” by Michael Kreyling
- “A Long Time Gone,” by Karen White
- “A Sensory History of the Civil War,” by Mark M. Smith
- “A Shelter of Others,” by Charles Dodd White
- “Alcestis in the Underworld,” by Nina Murray
- “All That Matters,” by Diane Yates
- “All the Governor’s Men,” by Katherine Clark
- “All the Lovely Children,” by Andrew Nance
- “Alligator Lake” by Lynne Bryant
- “America’s Alligator,” by Doug Alderson
- “American Ghost,” by Janis Owens
- “Another Appalachia: Coming Up Queer and Indian in a Mountain Place” by Neema Avashia
- “Apples & Ashes,” by Coleman Hutchison
- “Assassination at Bayou Sauvage,” by DJ Donaldson
- “Baptizing the Cat,” by Roberta George
- “Battlegrounds of Memory,” by Clay Lewis
- “Bead by Bead,” by Suzanne Henley
- “Bells for Eli,” by Susan Beckham Zurenda
- “Between Black and White,” by Robert Bailey
- “Between the Sound and Sea” by Amanda Cox
- “Brutal Silence,” by Margaret Dardess
- “Buena Suerte in Red Glitter,” by Bruce Craven
- “Burdy,” by Karen Spears Zacharias
- “Burials,” by Mary Anna Evans
- “By the Numbers,” by Jen Lancaster
- “Calusa Spirits,” by SR Staley
- “Cathead Crazy” by Rhett DeVane
- “Charlotte’s Story,” by Laura Benedict
- “Cherry Bomb,” by Susan Cushman
- “Chita: A Memory of Last Island,” by Lafcadio Hearn (edited by Delia LaBarre)
- “Confederado,” by Casey Clabough
- “Confession,” by Richard Freis
- “Confessions of a Christian Mystic,” by River Jordan
- “Congratulations, Who Are You Again?” by Harrison Scott Key
- “Conjuror,” by Holly Sullivan McClure
- “Creole Son,” by Michael Llewellyn
- “Crum,” by Lee Maynard
- “Cutting Loose in Paradise,” by Mary Jane Ryals
- “Dark Lady,” by Charlene Ball
- “Deep Ellum,” by Brandon Hobson
- “Delusional,” by Terry Lewis
- “Diary of a Mad Fat Girl,” by Stephanie McAfee
- “Dixie Luck,” by Andy Plattner
- “Dollbaby,” by Laura Lane McNeal
- “Down and Out in Bugtussle, The Mad Fat Road to Happiness,” by Stephanie McAfee
- “Dream Chaser,” by Pat Spears
- “Drifting too far from the Shore,” by Niles Reddick
- “Each Shining Hour,” by Jeff High
- “Emigration to Liberia,” by Matthew F.K. McDaniel
- “End Times” by John Williams
- “Engineering Eden,” by Jordan Fisher Smith
- “Even As We Breathe,” by Annette Saunooke Clapsaddle
- “Facing a Lonely West,” by Helen Losse
- “Far Beyond the Gates,” by Philip Lee Williams
- “Farming, Friends, and Fried Bologna Sandwiches,” by Renea Winchester
- “Fate Moreland’s Widow,” by John Lane
- “Fate Moreland’s Widow,” by John Lane, and “Seam Busters,” by Mary Hood
- “Feels Like Falling” by Kristy Woodson Harvey
- “Fetish and Other Stories,” Second Edition, by Amy Susan Wilson
- “Fielder’s Choice,” by J. Mark Hart
- “Finding Purple America,” by Jon Smith
- “Fire Shut Up In My Bones,” by Charles Blow
- “Florida Hustle” by Paul Wilborn
- “Foote: A Mystery Novel” by Tom Bredehoft
- “Forsaken,” by Ross Howell Jr.
- “Friday Afternoon and Other Stories,” by T. D. Johnston
- “Friends of the Library,” by Susan Cushman
- “From Midnight to Guntown,” by John Hailman
- “Fugitive Days,” by Gerald Duff
- “Ghosting” by Kirby Gann
- “Ghostwriter: Shakespeare, Literary Landmines, and an Eccentric Patron’s Royal Obsession” by Lawrence Wells
- “Go Set a Watchman,” by Harper Lee
- “Gone This Long,” by Jeffrey Alfier
- “Gone,” Edited with Photography by Nell Dickerson
- “Half a Man,” by Bill Glose
- “Half of What I Say Is Meaningless,” by Joseph Bathanti
- “Handkerchiefs and Handcuffs,” Essay by John S. Maguire
- “Hardscrabble Road,” by George Weinstein
- “Heads On Fire: Essays on Southern Fiction,” edited by Jan Nordby Gretlund
- “Hell and High Water,” by Rebecca Theim
- “Here and Again,” by Nicole R. Dickson
- “Hiding Gladys,” by Lee Mims
- “Historic Alabama Courthouses: A Century of Their Images and Stories,” by Delos Hughes
- “Honey from the Lion” and “Allegheny Front,” by Matthew Neill Null
- “House of Memory,” by Carolyn Haines
- “Ill-Mannered Ghosts,” by Nicole Sarrocco
- “In Sun’s Shadow,” by Paul Sohar
- “Isolation,” by Mary Anna Evans
- “It Comes in Waves,” by Erika Marks
- “It’s Not Like I Knew Her,” by Pat Spears
- “Jacob Jump,” by Eric Morris
- “Jefferson: Architect of American Liberty,” by John Boles
- “Journey to the Wilderness: War, Memory, and a Southern Family’s Civil War Letters,” by Frye Gaillard
- “Karma Crisis,” by Nathan Brown
- “Keep No Secrets,” by Julie Compton
- “Key West—A Lush and Magical place for Cozy Mysteries,” by Claire Hamner Matturro
- “Lady of the House,” by Lynn Braxton
- “Lake County” by Lori Roy
- “Last Words of the Holy Ghost,” by Matt Cashion
- “Lay it on my Heart,” by Angela Pneuman
- “Lead me Home,” by Amy K. Sorrells
- “Leaving Tuscaloosa,” by Walter Bennett
- “Letter in a Woodpile,” by Ed Cullen
- “Letters from Paris,” by Juliet Blackwell
- “Licensed to Lie,” by Sidney Powell
- “Life Through These Eyes,” by Michael S. Lambiotte
- “Lions of the West,” by Robert Morgan
- “Lisbeth,” by Marina Brown
- “Long-Legged Rosie – Murder in Myrtle Beach,” by Troy D. Nooe
- “Lookaway, Lookaway,” by Wilton Barnhardt
- “Love of My (Other) Life,” by Traci. L. Slatton
- “Many Rivers to Cross,” by Thomas Zigal
- “Marantha Road,” by Heather Bell Adams
- “Messenger from Mystery,” by Deno Trakas
- “Migratory Animals,” by Mary Helen Specht
- “Miraculum,” by Steph Post
- “Miss Dreamsville and the Lost Heiress of Collier County,” by Amy Hill Hearth
- “Miss Julia Inherits a Mess,” by Ann B. Ross
- “Miss Julia to the Rescue,” by Ann Ross
- “Miss Julia Weathers the Storm,” by Ann B. Ross
- “More Things in Heaven and Earth,” by Jeff High
- “Mourning Dove,” by Claire Fullerton
- “My Southern Journey,” by Rick Bragg
- “My Sunshine Away,” by M.O. Walsh
- “Naked: Stripped by a Man and Hurricane Katrina,” by Julie Freed
- “Obscura,” by Frank Paino
- “One Good Mama Bone,” by Bren McClain
- “Our Love Affair With Murder”: Donna Meredith Reviews Five Mysteries
- “Over the Plain Houses,” by Julia Franks
- “Paradise Lost: A Life of F. Scott Fitzgerald,” by David S. Brown
- “Patterns on the Sand,” by Gamel Woolsey
- “Place of Peace and Crickets,” by Tricia Booker
- “Prayers the Devil Answers,” by Sharyn McCrumb
- “Primary Lessons,” by Sarah Bracey White
- “Reaching the Shore of the Sea of Fertility” by Anna Laura Reeve
- “Reading the Coffee Grounds and Other Stories,” by Niles Reddick
- “Reckoning and Ruin,” by Tina Whittle
- “Redemption,” by Lee Passarella
- “Remembering Medgar Evers,” by Minrose Gwin
- “Reparation,” by Ruth Rodgers
- “Retarded Girl Raised in Dog Pen,” by Lauren Leigh
- “Riding on Comets,” by Cat Pleska
- “Rise and Shine,” by Johnathan Scott Barrett
- “Ruth’s Journey,” by Donald McCaig
- “Sanctuary,” by T.M. Brown
- “Scratched,” by Elizabeth Tallent
- “Sea Change,” by Karen White
- “Secondhand Sister,” by Rhett DeVane
- “Seven Wings to Glory,” by Kathleen M. Rodgers
- “Silent We Stood,” by Henry Chapell
- “Sinners of Sanction County,” by Charles Dodd White
- “Slab,” by Selah Saterstrom
- “Somewhere Safe with Somebody Good,” by Jan Karon
- “Soon,” by Pam Durban
- “South of the Etowah,” by Raymond L. Atkins
- “South, America,” by Rod Davis
- “Southbound: Essays on Identity, Heritage, and Social Change,” by Anjali Enjeti
- “Southern Gothic: New Tales of the South,” Edited by Brian Centrone With Art Design by Jordan Scoggins
- “Southern Writers Bear Witness,” edited by Jan Nordby Gretlund
- “Spare Change,” by Bette Lee Crosby
- “Stars of Alabama,” by Sean Dietrich
- “Suburban Gospel,” by Mark Beaver
- “Sunset Beach,” by Mary Kay Andrews
- “Swimming Between Worlds,” by Elaine Neil Orr
- “The Age of Discovery and Other Stories” by Becky Hagenston
- “The Alligator Man,” by James Sheehan
- “The Ballad of Cherrystoke and Other Stories” by Melanie McGee Bianchi
- “The Bequest of Big Daddy,” by Jo-Ann Costa
- “The Best of Enemies,” by Jen Lancaster
- “The Book of Cain,” by Jeff Lowe
- “The Cigar Factory: A Novel of Charleston,” by Michele Moore
- “The Color of Lies,” by Donna Meredith
- “The Cottoncrest Curse,” by Michael H. Rubin
- “The Darkling,” by Carolyn Haines as R. B. Chesterton
- “The Day is a White Tablet,” by Jill Fletcher Pelaez
- “The Ex-Suicide,” by Katherine Clark
- “The Final Days of Great American Shopping,” by Gilbert Allen
- “The Girls in the Stilt House,” by Kelly Mustian
- “The Gospel of Rot” by Gregory Ariail
- “The Gospel of the Twin,” by Ron Cooper
- “The Grace of the Gingko,” by Michael Hardesty
- “The Guest House,” by Erika Marks
- “The Homeschool Experiment,” by Charity Hawkins
- “The Ice Garden,” by Moira Crone
- “The Inquisitor’s Key,” by Jefferson Bass
- “The Lacuna,” by Barbara Kingsolver
- “The Land Breakers,” by John Ehle
- “The Language of Vision,” by Joseph R. Millichap
- “The Last Great American Magic,” by L.C. Fiore
- “The Lion of Babylon,” by Michael Whitehead
- “The Long Rifle Season,” by James Murray
- “The Marble Orchard,” by Alex Taylor
- “The Mockingbird Next Door,” by Marja Mills
- “The Murderous Sky: Poems of Madness and Mercy” by Rosemary Daniell
- “The Myth of Water,” by Jeanie Thompson
- “The Orphan of Pitigliano,” by Marina Brown
- “The Other Morgans,” by Carter Taylor Seaton
- “The Paris Key,” by Juliet Blackwell
- “The Path Was Steep,” by Susan Pickett
- “The Patron Saint of Dreams,” by Philip Gerard
- “The Pink House,” by Trish MacEnulty
- “The Poisoned Table,” by Diane Michael Cantor
- “The Prayer Box,” by Lisa Wingate
- “The Professor,” by Robert Bailey
- “The Promise of Jesse Woods,” by Chris Fabry
- “The Promise,” by Ann Weisgarber
- “The Redeemers,” by Ace Atkins
- “The Rising Place,” by David Armstrong
- “The Salvation of Miss Lucretia,” by Ted Dunagan
- “The Secret of Magic,” by Deborah Johnson
- “The Shadows We Hide,” by Allen Eskens
- “The Sheltering,” by Mark Powell
- “The Sisters of Glass Ferry,” by Kim Michele Richardson
- “The Son,” by Philipp Meyer
- “The Southern Philosopher: Collected Essays of John William Corrington,” Edited by Allen Mendenhall
- “The Splendor of Ordinary Days,” by Jeff High
- “The Stone Necklace,” by Carla Damron
- “The Stone Pear,” by Elizabeth Genovise
- “The Story Keeper,” by Lisa Wingate
- “The Summer House,” by Lauren Denton
- “The Tears of Dark Water,” by Corban Addison
- “The Time the Waters Rose,” by Paul Ruffin
- “The Timekeeper’s Son,” by Sara Baker
- “The Trench Garden,” by L.C. Fiore
- “The Velvet Hours,” by Alyson Richman
- “The Walmart Republic,” by Quraysh Ali Lansana and Christopher H. Stewart
- “The Way of the Saints” by Elizabeth Engelman
- “The Wishing Tide,” by Barbara Davis
- “This Republic of Suffering,” by Drew Gilpin Faust
- “This Side of the River,” by Jeffrey Stayton
- “This Vast Southern Empire,” by Matthew Karp
- “To Free the Captives: A Plea for the American Soul” by Tracy K. Smith
- “To The Disappearance,” by Todd Fuller
- “Troubles Wedding Caper,” by Jen Talty and “The Truffle with Weddings,” by Laura Durham
- “Undead Souths,” edited by Eric Gary Anderson, Taylor Hagood, and Daniel Cross Turner
- “Under the Same Blue Sky,” by Pamela Schoenewaldt
- “Understanding Larry McMurtry,” by Steven Frye
- “Understanding Richard Russo,” by Kathleen Drowne
- “Untying the Moon,” by Ellen Malphrus
- “Valentine’s Day,” by April Kelly
- “Wait Until Tomorrow,” by Pat MacEnulty
- “Watermark: Poems,” by Jeff Hardin
- “Watershed Days,” by Thorpe Moeckel
- “Weathering,” by David Havird
- “Web of Water: Reflections on Life Along the Saluda & Reedy Rivers,” by John Lane with Photography by Tom Blagden, Clay Bolt, jon holloway, and Ben Geer Keys
- “Where the Souls Go,” by Ann Hite
- “Where There Are Two Or More,” by Elizabeth Genovise
- “Whispering Tides,” by Guido Mattioni
- “White Trash,” by Alexandra Allred
- “Winged,” by April Kelly
- “Wondering Toward Center,” by Kathy A. Bradley
- “Writing Appalachia,” edited by Katherine Ledford and Theresa Lloyd
- 2021 Book of the Year: “The Committee” by Sterling Watson
- 2022 Book of the Year: “Wild Spectacle: Seeking Wonders in a World Beyond Humans” by Janisse Ray
- A Bad Day’s Work, by Nora McFarland
- A conversation about “Teaching Black History to White People” by Leonard N. Moore
- A Conversation on the April Read of the month: “The Bystanders” by Dawn Major
- A Dog Named Slugger, by Leigh Brill
- Adele Annesi Interviews Julie Cantrell
- Allen Mendenhall Interviews Jeff High, Author of “More Things in Heaven and Earth”
- Allen Mendenhall Interviews Susan Cushman, Author of “Friends of the Library”
- Allen Mendenhall’s Mom Names Most Influential Southern Female Author
- Announcing the 2023 Southern Literary Review Books of the Year
- April Read of the Month: “Family Law,” by Gin Phillips
- April Read of the Month: “March with Me,” by Rosalie T. Turner
- April Read of the Month: “Oh, Florida: How America’s Weirdest State Influences the Rest of the Country,” by Craig Pittman
- April Read of the Month: “Road’s End,” by Rebecca Barrett
- April Read of the Month: “Sewing Holes,” by Darlyn Finch Kuhn
- April Read of the Month: “The Feathered Bone,” by Julie Cantrell
- April Read of the Month: “Wet Work,” by Donna Meredith
- April Read of the Month: The Illumination, by Kevin Brockmeier
- April Read of the Month: “Fixing Boo-Boo,” by Pat Stanford
- April Read of the Month: “The Memory House,” by Rachel Hauck
- April Read of the Month: “The Not Yet,” by Moira Crone
- April Read of the Month: “To the Bones,” by Valerie Nieman
- Atlanta Writers Conference Nov. 4-5, 2022
- August Books of Special Note
- August Read of the Month – On Folly Beach, by Karen White
- August Read of the Month: “Glimmerglass,” by Marly Youmans
- August Read of the Month: “Hopscotch,” by Steve Cushman
- August Read of the Month: “Hush Puppy,” by Lisa T. Cresswell
- August Read of the Month: “Punch,” by Ray McManus
- August Read of the Month: “To Lay to Rest Our Ghosts,” by Caitlin Hamilton Summie
- August Read of the Month: “Turn Me Loose: The Unghosting of Medgar Evers,” by Frank X Walker
- August Read of the Month: The Oxford American’s Best of the South 2012 Issue
- August Read of the Month: “Moonrise Over New Jessup” by Jamila Minnicks
- August Read of the Month: “Old Lovegood Girls,” by Gail Godwin
- August Read of the Month: “The Murder Gene” by Karen Spears Zacharias
- August Read of the Month: “The Nickel Boys,” by Colson Whitehead
- August Read of the Month: “Wayward Girls,” by Claire Matturro and Penny Koepsel
- Author B. Wayne Quist Discusses God’s Angry Man
- Between, Georgia by Joshilyn Jackson
- Blackened Beauty: A Review of William Woolfitt’s “The Night the Rain Had Nowhere to Go”
- Bone Key Elegies by Danielle Sellers
- Books In Brief
- Books in Brief
- Books of Special Note for September
- Brendan Galvin
- C. D. Albin
- Casey Clabough Responds
- Catfish Alley, by Lynne Bryant
- Change of Leadership at SLR
- Charles Portis Collection Ideal Father’s Day Gift
- Claire Hamner Matturro interviews Dr. Allen P. Mendenhall, author of “A Glooming Peace This Morning”
- Claire Hamner Matturro interviews H. H. Leonards, author of “Rosa Parks Beyond the Bus: Life, Lessons, and Leadership”
- Claire Hamner Matturro reviews “No Names to Be Given” and interviews the author Julia Brewer Daily
- Coming Back: New Orleans Resurgent, by Mario Tama
- Cookie and Me, by Mary Jane Ryals
- Crossing the Creek: The Literary Friendship of Zora Neale Hurston and Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, by Anna Lillios
- Dancing by the River by Marlin Barton
- Daughter of Lachish, by Tim Frank
- Dawn Major interviews Editor and Contributors of All night, All Day Anthology
- Dawn Major interviews Raymond L. Atkins, A Southern Bard
- December Read of the Month: “Like Headlines,” by Nancy Dillingham
- December Read of the Month: “Dancing Naked in Dixie,” by Lauren Clark
- December Read of the Month: “Larry Brown: A Writer’s Life,” by Jean W. Cash
- December Read of the Month: “Perennials,” by Julie Cantrell
- December Read of the Month: “Return to Tradd Street,” by Karen White
- December Read of the Month: “The Alexandria You Are Losing,” by Yasser El-Sayed
- December Read of the Month: “The Revelators,” by Ace Atkins
- December Read of the Month: “Want v. Need: Stories from Pottawatomie County,” by Amy Susan Wilson
- December Read of the Month: “Wild Spectacle,” by Janisse Ray
- December Read of the Month: “Wings of Glass,” by Gina Holmes
- December Read of the Month: “Wins and Losses,” by Peter Makuck
- December Read of the Month: “The Woods of Fannin County” by Janisse Ray
- December Read of the Month: “Homelight” by Lola Haskins
- Deep Family: Four Centuries of American Originals and Southern Eccentrics by Nicholas Cabell Read and Dallas Read
- Denise Tolan
- Donna Meredith interviews Cynthia Newberry Martin, author of “The Art of Her Life”
- Donna Meredith interviews Errol Pierre, Author of “The Way Up: Climbing the Corporate Mountain as a Professional of Color” (Wiley, 2022)
- Donna Meredith Reviews books by Geneva Cobb Moore and Boyd Creasman
- Dream Fishing, by Scott Ely
- Drive-Through Review of Three Mysteries
- Edward Cohen Offers Jewish Perspective on Civil Rights Movement
- Embracing Choice: The Autobiography of Edith Eger
- Fairy Tales, Monsters, and More with Bradley Sides, Author of “Crocodile Tears Didn’t Cause the Flood,” and Dawn Major
- Fastor Pastor by Sharyn McCrumb and Adam Edwards
- Faulkner Studies in Japan, edited by Thomas L. McHaney; compiled by Kenzaburo Ohashi and Kiyoyuki Ono
- February Read of the Month: “Appomattox: Victory, Defeat, and Freedom at the End of the Civil War,” by Elizabeth Varon
- February Read of the Month: “Gradle Bird,” by J.C. Sasser
- February Read of the Month: “In The Night Orchard: New and Selected Poems,” by R. T. Smith
- February Read of the Month: “In the Time of the Feast of Flowers,” by Tina Egnoski
- February Read of the Month: “Kiss of the Jewel Bird,” by Dale Cramer
- February Read of the Month: “Sheer Indefinite,” by Skip Fox
- February Read of the Month: “The Secret to Hummingbird Cake,” by Celeste Fletcher McHale
- February Read of the Month: God’s Angry Man, by B. Wayne Quist
- February Read of the Month: “Goshen Road,” by Bonnie Proudfoot
- February Read of the Month: “Midnight at the Tuscany Hotel,” by James Markert
- February Read of the Month: “Take a Left at Tomorrow,” by Renee Anduze
- February Read of the Month: “The Kudzu Queen” by Mimi Herman
- February Read of the Month: “Waters Run Wild,” by Andrea Fekete
- Felicia S. W. Thomas’ Debut Novel a Delight for All Ages
- Forensic Fictions: The Lawyer Figure in Faulkner, by Jay Watson
- GEORGIA WRITERS MUSEUM SEEKING SESSION PROPOSALS
- Green Gospel, by L.C. Fiore
- Gwaltney named Georgia Author of the Year for First Novel
- Higher Ground by James Nolan
- If You Want to Understand Code-Switching, You Need to Read Jean Toomer’s “Cane”
- In That Sweet Country: Uncollected Writings of Harry Middleton
- In the Sanctuary of Outcasts, by Neil White
- Inspirational Reads for Easter
- January Read of the Month, The Gendarme by Mark Mustian
- January Read of the Month: “A Land More Kind Than Home,” by Wiley Cash
- January Read of the Month: “Casey’s Last Chance,” by Joseph B. Atkins
- January Read of the Month: “Sailing to Alluvium,” by John Pritchard
- January Read of the Month: “Second Bloom,” by Anya Krugovoy Silver
- January Read of the Month: “Sweetwater Blues,” by Raymond L. Atkins
- January Read of the Month: “The Moonshiner’s Daughter,” by Donna Everhart
- January Read of the Month: “The Ocean’s Edge,” by William Bernhardt
- January Read of the Month: “Wild Florida Waters,” by Doug Alderson
- January Read of the Month: “Jar of Pennies” by John Yearwood
- January Read of the Month: “Traces” by Patricia L. Hudson
- January Read of the Month: “Where the Crawdads Sing,” by Delia Owens
- January Read of the Month: “Wrecked,” by Mary Anna Evans
- John Shelton Reed’s Dixie Bohemia
- John Wall Barger interviews Shannon Robinson, author of “The Ill-Fitting Skin”
- Julia Jordan Weller
- July Read of the Month – The Help
- July Read of the Month: “A Tree Born Crooked,” by Steph Post
- July Read of the Month: “Blueberry Years,” by Jim Minnick
- July Read of the Month: “Breath Like the Wind at Dawn,” by Devin Jacobsen
- July Read of the Month: “I Watched You Disappear,” by Anya Krugovoy Silver
- July Read of the Month: “Noah’s Wife,” by Lindsay Starck
- July Read of the Month: “Parade of Horribles,” by Rhett DeVane
- July Read of the Month: “The Disappearing Act,” by Sara Pirkle Hughes
- July Read of the Month: The Revenge of the Radioactive Lady, by Elizabeth Stuckey-French
- July Read of the Month: “Deeper than African Soil” by Faith Eidse
- July Read of the Month: “Privilege,” by Claire Matturro
- July Read of the Month: “Suite for Three Voices,” by Derek Furr
- July Read of the Month: “The Archive of Alternative Endings,” by Lindsey Drager
- June Read of the Month: “Abraham Anyhow,” by Adam Van Winkle
- June Read of the Month: “Buried Seeds,” by Donna Meredith
- June Read of the Month: “Damn Yankees,” by George C. Rable
- June Read of the Month: “Faith Bass Darling’s Last Garage Sale,” by Lynda Rutledge
- June Read of the Month: “Rough Beast,” by Tim Peeler
- June Read of the Month: “Song of the Vagabond Bird,” by Terry Kay
- June Read of the Month: “The Final Reckoning,” by Robert Bailey
- June Read of the Month: “The Little Way of Ruthie Leming,” by Rod Dreher
- June Read of the Month: House of Prayer No. 2, by Mark Richard
- June Read of the Month: “Coyote Loop,” by L. C. Fiore
- June Read of the Month: “Fast Break,” by Terry Lewis
- June Read of the Month: “The Last Trial,” by Robert Bailey
- Junior Ray by John Pritchard
- Karen White Does it Again! The Strangers on Montagu Street
- Killing Time by John Holloway and Ronald M. Gauthier
- Leaving Gee’s Bend, by Irene Latham
- Legal Thrillers: Why we love them—and reviews of three new ones
- Lewis Nordan Explores Magical Bond Between Father and Son
- Literary Books in Brief
- Lunch at the Picadilly by Clyde Edgerton
- Mama’s Comfort Food, by Rhett DeVane
- March Read of the Month Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter by Tom Franklin
- March Read of the Month: “A Cuban in Mayberry,” by Gustavo Pérez Firmat
- March Read of the Month: “Driftwood Tides,” by Gina Holmes
- March Read of the Month: “Into the Free,” by Julie Cantrell
- March Read of the Month: “Old Country Fiddle,” by Heath Dollar
- March Read of the Month: “The Books that Mattered,” by Frye Gaillard
- March Read of the Month: “The Last Treasure,” by Erika Marks
- March Read of the Month: “A Spy in the House of Anais Nin,” by Kim Krizan
- March Read of the Month: “Atomic Family” by Ciera Horton McElroy
- March Read of the Month: “Call It Horses,” by Jessie Van Eerden
- March Read of the Month: “Dancing to an Irish Reel,” by Claire Fullerton
- March Read of the Month: “Kids These Days,” by Drew Perry
- March Read of the Month: “A Glooming Peace This Morning” by Allen Mendenhall
- March Reads of the Month: “Walker Percy, Fyodor Dostoevsky, and the Search for Influence” and “Reading Walker Percy’s Novels,” by Jessica Hooten Wilson
- Mark Mustian Discusses His Latest Book, The Gendarme
- May Read of the Month, Purple Jesus by Ron Cooper
- May Read of the Month: “A Part of Me,” by Julia Nunnally Duncan
- May Read of the Month: “Slant of Light,” by Steve Wiegenstein
- May Read of the Month: “Fly Fishing in Times Square,” by William Walsh
- May Read of the Month: “Fraccidental Death,” by Donna Meredith
- May Read of the Month: “Harlow,” by David Armand
- May Read of the Month: “Study of Scarletts,” by Margaret Donovan Bauer
- May Read of the Month: “The Kings and Queens of Roam,” by Daniel Wallace
- May Read of the Month: “The Kings and Queens of Roam,” by Daniel Wallace
- May Read of the Month: “The Kings and Queens of Roam,” by Daniel Wallace
- May Read of the Month: “In the Lonely Backwater,” by Valerie Nieman
- May Read of the Month: “Only Oona” by Tamatha Cain
- May Read of the Month: “The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek,” by Kim Michele Richardson
- May Read of the Month: “The Opposite of Everyone,” by Joshilyn Jackson
- May Read of the Month: “The Tender Grave,” by Sheri Reynolds
- May Read of the Month: “Treatment Plan” by Darryl Bollinger
- Meet American Novelist Ace Atkins
- Meet Elizabeth Stuckey-French: Author of July Read of the Month, Revenge of the The Radioactive Lady
- Meet Jennifer Niven, Author of September Read of the Month: Velva Jean Learns to Fly
- Meet John Brandon, Author of Citrus County
- Meet Kevin Brockmeier, Author of The Illumination
- Meet Mark Richard, Author of June Read of the Month – House of Prayer No. 2
- Meet River Jordan, Author of Praying for Strangers
- Meet Robin Oliveira, Author of My Name is Mary Sutter
- Meet Stephen Wetta, Author of October Read of the Month: If Jack’s in Love
- Meet Tom Carhart, Author of Sacred Ties
- Meet Tom Carhart, Author of Sacred Ties, Part 2
- Mississippi Cotton by Paul H. Yarbrough
- Mudbound — June Read of the Month
- Nonfiction Books of Note for December: “Conversations with Jimmy Carter” and George Singleton’s “Asides”
- November Read of the Month, Citrus County by John Brandon
- November Read of the Month: “A Hanging at Cinder Bottom,” by Glenn Taylor
- November Read of the Month: “A Short Time to Stay Here,” by Terry Roberts
- November Read of the Month: “Don’t Try,” by Nathan Brown and Jon Dee Graham
- November Read of the Month: “Moonrise,” by Cassandra King
- November Read of the Month: “The Curse of Crow Hollow,” by Billy Coffey
- November Read of the Month: “The White Bird,” by William Bernhardt
- November Read of the Month: “Weary Kingdom,” by DéLana R. A. Dameron
- November Read of the Month: “Christian Bend,” by Karen Spears Zacharias
- November Read of the Month: “Milk Blood Heat” by Dantiel W. Muniz
- November Read of the Month: “Tampa Bay Noir,” edited by Colette Bancroft
- November Read of the Month: “The Curious Lives of Nonprofit Martyrs: Stories” by George Singleton
- November Read of the Month: “The Winter Sisters,” by Tim Westover
- November Read of the Month: “When Women Danced With Trees—35 Unexpected Stories,” by Marina Brown
- October Read of the Month – Sacred Ties: From West Point Brothers to Battlefield Rivals, by Tom Carhart
- October Read of the Month, If Jack’s in Love by Stephen Wetta
- October Read of the Month: “Edge of the Wind,” by James E. Cherry
- October Read of the Month: “Memories of Holly Woode,” by Richard Wickliffe
- October Read of the Month: “Of Bees and Boys,” by Allen Mendenhall
- October Read of the Month: “Reading Life,” by Michael Pearson
- October Read of the Month: “Second Blooming,” edited by Susan Cushman
- October Read of the Month: “Trouble in Action,” by Susan Y. Tanner
- October Read of the Month: “When Mountains Move,” by Julie Cantrell
- October Read of the Month: Dixie Bohemia, by John Shelton Reed
- October Read of the Month: “Finding Joe,” by Rebecca Hunn
- October Read of the Month: “Haints on Black Mountain: A Haunted Short Story Collection” by Ann Hite
- October Read of the Month: “N.O.K.,” by Bruce Ballister
- October Read of the Month: “The Stockwell Letters” by Jacqueline Friedland
- Oedipus, Jemima Puddle-Duck, and “Astonishing Primitives”
- Oxford American: The Southern Magazine of Good Writing, 11th Annual Southern Music Issue
- Palm Beach Poetry Festival
- Patricia O’Sullivan’s Mom’s Month Pick
- Penumbra by Carolyn Hines
- Perpetual Care: Stories by James Nolan
- Persons Unknown, by Jake Adam York
- Philip K. Jason’s Father’s Month Pick
- Philosopher and Novelist, Ron Cooper, Flexes the Muscles of the Mind
- Pinckney Benedict’s Miracle Boy and Other Stories
- Provinces of Night by William Gay
- Read of the Month: Collected Works of American Novelist Ace Atkins
- Read of the Month: “Ditch Weed” by Rhett DeVane
- Read of the Month: “Getting to Know Death: A Meditation” by Gail Godwin
- Read of the Month: “Lunchladies Bought My Prom Dress” by Heather Ream
- Read of the Month: “Perpendicular Women: Adventures in the Multiverse” by Chris Coward
- Read of the Month: “Red Clay Suzie” by Jeffrey Dale Lofton
- Read of the Month: “The Girl from the Red Rose Motel” by Susan Beckham Zurenda
- Remember Ben Clayton, by Stephen Harrigan
- Robin Oliveira Interview, Part Two
- Sautee Shadows by Denise Weimer
- September Read of the Month, My Name is Mary Sutter by Robin Oliveira
- September Read of the Month, Velva Jean Learns to Fly by Jennifer Niven
- September Read of the Month: “Book of the Beloved,” by Carolyn Haines
- September Read of the Month: “Moon Water,” by Pam Webber
- September Read of the Month: “The Headmaster’s Darlings,” by Katherine Clark
- September Read of the Month: “The Holy Mark,” by Gregory Alexander
- September Read of the Month: “The Smuggler’s Daughter,” by Claire Hamner Matturro
- September Read of the Month: “The Wiregrass,” by Pam Webber
- September Read of the Month: “Useless Landscape, or A Guide for Boys,” by D.A. Powell
- September Read of the Month: “When Nighttime Shadows Fall,” by Diane Michael Cantor
- September Read of the Month: “Keowee Valley,” by Katherine Scott Crawford
- September Read of the Month: “Loving the Dead and Gone,” by Judith Turner-Yamamoto
- September Read of the Month: “Sister, Mother, Warrior” by Vanessa Riley
- September Read of the Month: “The Committee,” by Sterling Watson
- Silver Sparrow by Tayari Jones
- SLR Welcomes New Contributor Pat Spears
- Small Displacements Nails Turning Points in Characters’ Lives
- Smonk by Tom Franklin
- Somebody Everybody Listens To, by Suzanne Supplee
- Southern Comfort, by Fern Michaels
- Sue Ellen’s Girl Ain’t Fat, She Just Weighs Heavy, by Shellie Rushing Tomlinson
- Sufficient Grace by Darnell Arnoult
- Sweet Read: The Peach Keeper, by Sarah Addison Allen
- Tested: How Twelve Wrongly Imprisoned Men Held onto Hope
- The Black Ocean by Brian Barker
- The Chitlin’ Circuit and the Road to Rock ‘N’ Roll
- The End of a Good Party, by Jean Ross Justice
- The Eternal Ones, by Kirsten Miller
- The Gift, by Betty Gwen Barlow
- The Glass Madonna, by Donna Meredith
- The Glass Rainbow, by James Lee Burke
- The Mercy of Thin Air by Ronlyn Dominque
- The Night Train by Clyde Edgerton
- The Official Southern Literary Review 2022 Holiday Gift Guide
- The Official Southern Literary Review 2023 Holiday Gift Guide
- The Reservoir, by John Milliken Thompson
- Three Must-Read Short Story Collections
- Toward the Corner of Mercy and Peace by Tracey D. Buchanan
- Treasures in the Dirt: Rachel Custer’s “Flatback Sally Country”
- Tufts Poetry Awards
- Ugly to Start With, by John Michael Cummings
- Velva Jean Learns to Drive, by Jennifer Niven
- Walking Through Shadows by Bev Marshall
- What Southern Female Author Most Influenced Rhett DeVane?
- Wild Girls, by Mary Stewart Atwell
- Yazoo Blues by John Pritchard
- Year of Our Lord: Faith, Hope and Harmony in the Mississippi Delta
- Young Adult writers conference Apr 29, 9 a.m.–5 p.m.
- “A Common Person and Other Stories,” by R. M. Kinder
- “A Literary Life of Sutton E. Griggs: The Man on the Firing Line” by John Cullen Gruesser
- “A Mother Speaks, A Daughter Listens: Journeying Together Through Dementia” by Felicia Mitchell
- “A Place So Deep Inside America It Can’t Be Seen,” by Kari Gunter-Seymour
- “A Pure Heart,” by Rajia Hassib
- “A Rose in Little Five Points” by Deidre Ann DeLaughter
- “Alight: Flights of Prose” by Rachael Peckham
- “All the Lovely Children,” by Andrew Nance
- “All We Have Loved” by Julia Nunnally Duncan
- “Alone in the House of My Heart” by Kari Gunter-Seymour
- “Another World: Ballet Lessons from Appalachia” by Edwina Pendarvis
- “Answering Liberty’s Call” by Tracy Lawson
- “Apothecary 709” by Cristen E. Rose
- “Ariel’s Island” by Pat McKee
- “Ashes to Asheville,” by Sarah Dooley
- “At What Cost Silence” by Karen Lynne Klink
- “Bayou Cresting: The Wanting Women of Huet Pointe,” by Jodie Cain Smith
- “Bel Canto” by Virginia Konchan
- “Birdhouse Jesus” by Terri Chastain
- “Bitten: My Unexpected Love Affair with Florida,” by Andrew Furman
- “Blake, or The Huts of America” by Martin R. Delany and “The Hindered Hand” by Sutton E. Griggs
- “Blood Creek,” by Kimberly Collins
- “Boolean Logic” by Morgan Christie
- “Bull Mountain,” by Brian Panowich
- “Burning Eden” by Sarah Bewley
- “Catacombs,” by Mary Anna Evans
- “Chenneville” by Paulette Jiles
- “Chief Corn Tassel” by Mitzi Dorton
- “Clete” by James Lee Burke
- “COMBEE: Harriet Tubman, the Combahee River Raid, and Black Freedom During the Civil War” by Edda Fields-Black
- “Counting Souls” by Donald R. Buchanan
- “Country Dark” by Chris Offutt and “Dry County” by Jake Hinkson
- “Craft & Current: A manual for magical writing” by Janisse Ray
- “CRASH,” by Louis Gallo
- “Creole Soul: Zydeco Lives” by Burt Feintuch and edited by Jeannie Banks Thomas
- “Crooked Truth,” by Kristine F. Anderson
- “Dark Dive” by Andrew Mayne
- “Daughters of Chaos” by Jen Fawkes
- “Dead Letters from Paradise” by Ann McMan
- “Dear Outsiders” by Jenny Sadre-Orafai
- “Depth of Winter,” by Craig Johnson
- “Dirt Songs” by Kari Gunter-Seymour
- “Don’t Date Baptists—and other things my mother told me,” by Terry Barr
- “Don’t Tell ’em You’re Cold: A Memoir of Poverty and Resilience,” by Katherine P. Manley
- “Dreams of Arcadia” by Brian Porter
- “Dreams of Falling,” by Karen White
- “Eden Rise,” by Robert J. Norrell
- “Everybody Here is Kin” by BettyJoyce Nash
- “Everybody Here is Kin” by BettyJoyce Nash
- “Falling Apart, Radiant,” by Mary Jane Ryals
- “Feral, North Carolina, 1965,” by June Sylvester Saraceno
- “Fish Streets before Dawn: Poems” by Rick Campbell
- “Flags on the Bayou” by James Lee Burke
- “Florida,” by Lauren Groff
- “Foraging Kentucky : An Introduction to the Edible Plants, Fungi, and Three Crops of the Southeast” by George Barnett
- “Fugitives of the Heart,” by William Gay
- “Girl from Blind River,” by Gale Massey
- “GodPretty in the Tobacco Field,” by Kim Michele Richardson
- “Green Canvas” by Andrew Nance
- “Hannah and Ariela” by Johnnie Bernhard
- “Harbor Lights” by James Lee Burke
- “Hard Packed Clay” by Joyce Compton Brown
- “He Should Have Told The Bees” by Amanda Cox
- “Heart of Palm,” by Laura Lee Smith
- “Heart’s Core” by Joann Gardner
- “Hell of a Book” by Jason Mott
- “Hell Put to Shame, the 1921 Murder Farm Massacre and the Horror of America’s Second Slavery” by Earl Swift
- “Hemlock Hollow” by Culley Holderfield
- “Hillbilly Madonna” by Sara Moore Wagner
- “how small, confronting morning” by Lola Haskins
- “How We Came To Be,” by Johnnie Bernhard
- “How We Disappear” by Tara Lynn Masih
- “Idiot Men” by Scott Gould
- “In the Heart of the Dark Wood,” by Billy Coffey
- “Incognito,” by Terry Lewis
- “Indigo Field” by Marjorie Hudson
- “It Ends with Knight” by Yasmin Angoe
- “James Dickey: A Literary Life” by Gordon Van Ness
- “Just That” by Robert Cooper
- “Justice in the Jim Crow South: An Unlikely Journey from Negro Policeman to Florida’s First Black Parole & Probation Commissioner” by Charles J. Scriven
- “Lark Ascending” by Silas House
- “Legacy of Lies,” by Robert Bailey
- “Let Me Say This: A Dolly Parton Poetry Anthology” edited by Julie E. Bloemeke and Dustin Brookshire
- “Letters from My Sister” by Valerie Fraser Luesse
- “Liar’s Bench,” by Kim Michele Richardson
- “Liberty Street” by Jason K. Friedman
- “Life Dust: A Novel” by Pam Webber
- “Louise and Vincent” by Diane Byington
- “Love and Death in the Sunshine State: The Story of a Crime,” by Cutter Wood
- “Love Letters from an Arsonist” by David van den Berg
- “Malone Ridge” by James K. Dill
- “Margaret: The Rose of Goodwood” by Donna Meredith
- “Matrix,” by Lauren Groff
- “Meg & Jo,” by Virginia Kantra
- “Mirrors: and Other Reflections” by David Armand
- “Miss Dreamsville and the Collier County Women’s Literary Society,” by Amy Hill Hearth
- “Miss Dreamsville and the Lost Heiress of Collier County,” by Amy Hill Hearth
- “MISS JULIA ROCKS THE CRADLE,” BY ANN B. ROSS
- “Naming the Silence: New & Selected Poems,” by Michael David Blanchard
- “Never Have I Ever,” by Joshilyn Jackson
- “New Approaches to Gone with the Wind,” edited by James A. Crank
- “Night Letter: A Novel” by Sterling Watson
- “Night Watch” by Jayne Anne Phillips wins Pulitzer Prize for Fiction
- “No Perfect Mothers” by Karen Spears Zacharias
- “Not What She Seems” by Yasmin Angoe
- “Orchard of My Eye,” by Mark Canter
- “Out of the Blue: Life on the Road with Muddy Waters” by Brian Bisesi
- “Outliving the White Lie: A Southerner’s Historical, Genealogical, and Personal Journey” by James Wiggins
- “Palindrome: Stories” by Elizabeth Genovise
- “Plunder,” by Mary Anna Evans
- “Pop: An Illustrated Novel,” by Robert Gipe
- “Reconsidering Flannery O’Connor,” Edited by Alison Arant and Jordan Cofer
- “Relative Distance” by David Pruitt
- “Relative Justice,” by Robert Whitlow
- “Return to Hardscrabble Road” by George Weinstein
- “Rising and Other Stories,” by Gale Massey
- “Rules for the Southern Rulebreaker,” by Katherine Snow Smith
- “Sally St. Johns,” by Denise Heinze
- “Saving Tyler Hake,” by Meredith Sue Willis
- “Say Hello to My Little Friend” by Jennine Capo Crucet
- “Scapegoat” by T. K. Lee
- “Scaring the Bears” by Gordon Johnston
- “Secrets of the Devil Vine,” by Faith Kaiser
- “Seven Islands of the Ocmulgee: River Stories” by Gordon Johnston
- “Shakespeare’s Secrets,” by Bonnie Hoover Braendlin
- “Small Town Big Secrets” by Dee Harris
- “Snakehunter” and “Last Mountain Dancer,” by Chuck Kinder
- “Snakes of St. Augustine” by Ginger Pinholster
- “Song of the Chimney Sweep,” by Tamatha Cain
- “Specter of Seduction,” by Carolyn Haines
- “Still Breathing: My Journey with Love, Loss, and Reinvention,” by Katie Joy Duke
- “Stories from the Attic” by William Gay
- “Tamp” by Denton Loving
- “The Beautiful Misfits” by Susan Reinhardt
- “The Book of Sorrows” by Kenneth Robbins
- “The Boundaries of Their Dwelling” by Blake Sanz
- “The Bullet Swallower” by Elizabeth Gonzalez James
- “The Christmas Spirits on Tradd Street,” by Karen White
- “The Cicada Tree,” by Robert Gwaltney
- “The Devil’s Bones,” by Carolyn Haines
- “The Devil’s Fools” by Mary Gilliland
- “The Digital Self: Poems and Illustrations” by Wesley Bishop
- “The Favorite Daughter,” by Patti Callahan Henry
- “The Forsaken,” by Ace Atkins
- “The Girl with Kaleidoscope Eyes,” by Williams Rawlings
- “The Good Luck Stone,” by Heather Bell Adams
- “The Guests on South Battery,” by Karen White
- “The Guy in the Box,” by Iain S. Baird
- “The Hammerhead Chronicles” by Scott Gould
- “The Heathens: A Quinn Colson novel,” by Ace Atkins
- “The Incredible Winston Browne,” by Sean Dietrich
- “The King Street Affair” by Jon Sealy
- “The Kingdoms of Savannah” by George Dawes Green
- “The Leaf Does Not Believe It Will Fall,” By Marina Brown
- “The Light Pirate,” by Lily Brooks-Dalton
- “The Lightness of Water & Other Stories,” by Rhonda Browning White
- “The Little Girl at the Bottom of the Picture” by Jeremy White
- “The Lost Country,” by William Gay
- “The Marsh Bird,” by Anne Brooker James
- “The Middle Daughter” by Chika Unigwe
- “The Orchid Tattoo” by Carla Damron
- “The Pearl Diver’s Daughter” by Michael Blanchard
- “The Physicist’s Daughter” by Mary Anna Evans
- “The Places That Hold,” by John Davis Jr.
- “The Plinko Bounce” by Martin Clark
- “The Rat Catcher” by Rebecca Barrett
- “The Red Dirt Hymnbook,” by Roxie Faulkner Kirk
- “The Saddest Girl on the Beach” by Heather Frese
- “The Shaadi Set-Up,” by Lillie Vale
- “The Sound of Holding Your Breath,” by Natalie Sypolt
- “The Strange Inheritance of Leah Fern,” by Rita Zoey Chin
- “The Stranger Inside,” by Laura Benedict
- “The Third Rainbow Girl: The Long Life of a Double Murder in Appalachia” by Emma Copley Eisenberg
- “The Water Keeper,” by Charles Martin
- “The Whispering Women” by Trish MacEnulty
- “The Wrong Side,” by Robert Bailey
- “Their Houses,” by Meredith Sue Willis
- “These Particular Women” by Kat Meads
- “This Familiar Heart: An Improbable Love Story” by Babette Fraser Hale
- “This is Where it Ends” by Cindy K. Sproles
- “Through Any Window” by Deb Richardson-Moore
- “To Crown with Liberty” by Karen Ullo
- “To the Manor Born” by Matthew Speiser
- “Trampoline: An Illustrated Novel,” by Robert Gipe
- “Two Minus One,” by Kathryn Taylor
- “Undercurrents,” by Mary Anna Evans
- “Unlocking: A Memoir of Family and Art,” by Nancy Pressley
- “Unsheltered,” by Barbara Kingsolver
- “Voice Lessons” by Karen Salyer McElmurray
- “Wanting Radiance,” by Karen Salyer McElmurray
- “Watermelons, Nooses, and Straight Razors: Stories from the Jim Crow Museum,” by David Pilgrim with a foreword by Debby Irving
- “Weedeater: An Illustrated Novel,” by Robert Gipe
- “What Blooms From Dust,” by James Markert
- “What Doesn’t Kill You Opens Your Heart”: Denise S. Robbins interviews author Max Hipp
- “When Stars Rain Down,” by Angela Jackson-Brown
- “Whisper’s Edge,” by LuAnn McLane
- “Will the Circle Be Unbroken,” by Sean Dietrich
- “Winston’s Book of Souls” by Terresa Cooper Haskew
- “Wish Me Joy, West Virginia” by Valerie Banfield
- “With Teeth,” by Kristen Arnett
- “With the Devil’s Help” by Neal Wooten
- “Wrath of the Dixie Mafia,” by Paul Sinor
- “Yellow Wife” by Sadeqa Johnson
- “You and I and Someone Else,” by Anna Schachner
- Read of the Month: “All We Were Promised” by Ashton Lattimore
- “Because I Loved You” by Donnaldson Brown
- “Glass Cabin” by Tina Mozelle Braziel and James Braziel
- “If Lost” by Clint Bowman
- “Inheritance with A High Error Rate” by Jen Karetnick
- “Key West Sketches: Writers at Mile Zero” edited by Carey Winfrey
- “Magicicada and Other Marvels” by Kathleen Brewin Lewis
- “Spillway” by Kim Bradley
- “Sun Don’t Shine” by Crissa-Jean Chappell
- “The Halo of Bees: New & Selected Poems 1990-2023” by Michael Hettich
- “Tour of a Lifetime: Glenamaddy to Gomorrah” by Thomas Rabbitt
- “Valediction: Poems and Prose” by Linda Parsons
Author Profiles & Interviews
- “Bill Corrington, From Poetry to ‘Killer Bees’: A Personal Interview,” by Louis Gallo
- “Ishion Hutchinson, Lord of Reggae Poetry and the Cornell Commons,” by Patrick A. Howell
- “John Michael Cummings: a Writer on a Mission,” Profile by John Riddle
- A conversation: “Walk Till The Dogs Get Mean: Meditations on the Forbidden in Appalachia”
- Abigail De Witt Interviews Lee Zacharias on her New Novel, “What a Wonderful World This Could Be”
- Adam Van Winkle Interviews Southern Mystery Writer Maggie Toussaint
- Alderson fulfills spirit quest to increase environmental awareness
- Allen Mendenhall interview Joe Lee, author of “Resting Place”
- Allen Mendenhall interviews Adele Holmes, author of “Winter’s Reckoning”
- Allen Mendenhall Interviews Amber D. Tran, Author of “Moon River”
- Allen Mendenhall Interviews Amos Jasper Wright IV, Author of “Nobody Knows How It Got This Good”
- Allen Mendenhall Interviews Amy Susan Wilson, Publisher of Red Dirt Press
- Allen Mendenhall Interviews Andrew Lawler, Author of “The Secret Token”
- Allen Mendenhall Interviews Barbara Davis, Author of “The Wishing Tide”
- Allen Mendenhall Interviews Bren McClain, Author of “One Good Mama Bone”
- Allen Mendenhall Interviews Charles D. Thompson, Author of “Going Over Home”
- Allen Mendenhall Interviews Charles Dodd White, Author of “In the House of Wilderness”
- Allen Mendenhall Interviews Chris Shaffer, Author of “Moon Over Sasova”
- Allen Mendenhall Interviews Coleman Hutchison
- Allen Mendenhall Interviews Colleen D. Scott, Author of “Everybody Needs a Bridge”
- Allen Mendenhall Interviews Dan Leach, Author of “Floods and Fires”
- Allen Mendenhall Interviews Danny Johnson, Author of “The Last Road Home”
- Allen Mendenhall Interviews David Bradley
- Allen Mendenhall Interviews David Joy, Author of Where All Light Tends to Go
- Allen Mendenhall Interviews Deborah Mantella, Author of “My Sweet Vidalia”
- Allen Mendenhall Interviews Derek Furr, Author of “Semitones”
- Allen Mendenhall Interviews Diane C. McPhail, Author of “The Abolitionist’s Daughter”
- Allen Mendenhall Interviews DJ Donaldson, Author of “Assassination at Bayou Sauvage”
- Allen Mendenhall Interviews Douglas Dell, Author of “Deep and Dirty”
- Allen Mendenhall Interviews Elizabeth Harris, Author of “Mayhem”
- Allen Mendenhall Interviews Emily Carpenter, Author of “The Weight of Lies”
- Allen Mendenhall Interviews F. Diane Pickett, Author of “Never Isn’t Long Enough”
- Allen Mendenhall Interviews George Weinstein, Author of “Watch What You Say”
- Allen Mendenhall Interviews Glenn Arbery, Author of “Bearings and Distances”
- Allen Mendenhall Interviews Heath Dollar, Author of “Old Country Fiddle”
- Allen Mendenhall Interviews Heather Webber, Author of “Midnight at the Blackbird Café”
- Allen Mendenhall Interviews Howard G. Franklin, Author of “Gideon’s Children”
- Allen Mendenhall Interviews Hubert Crouch, Author of “The Word”
- Allen Mendenhall Interviews Idabel Allen, Author of “Rooted”
- Allen Mendenhall Interviews James Elkins About Law, Literature, Poetry, and Teaching
- Allen Mendenhall Interviews Jessica Dotta
- Allen Mendenhall Interviews Jessica Hooten Wilson
- Allen Mendenhall Interviews Joanne Kukanza Easley, Author of “Sweet Jane”
- Allen Mendenhall Interviews Jodie Sinclair, Author of “Love Behind Bars”
- Allen Mendenhall Interviews Joe Taylor, Author of “Ghostly Demarcations”
- Allen Mendenhall Interviews Joe Taylor, Author of “The Theoretics of Love”
- Allen Mendenhall Interviews John Shelton Reed
- Allen Mendenhall Interviews John Shelton Reed, Author of “Mixing It Up”
- Allen Mendenhall Interviews Johnnie Bernhard, Author of “A Good Girl”
- Allen Mendenhall Interviews Johnnie Bernhard, Author of “How We Came to Be”
- Allen Mendenhall Interviews Johnnie Bernhard, Author of “Sisters of the Undertow”
- Allen Mendenhall Interviews Jolina Petersheim
- Allen Mendenhall Interviews Joseph Bathanti, Author of “Coventry”
- Allen Mendenhall Interviews Judge William Alsup, Author of “Won Over”
- Allen Mendenhall Interviews Julia Nunnally Duncan
- Allen Mendenhall Interviews Julia Nunnally Duncan, Author of “A Neighborhood Changes”
- Allen Mendenhall Interviews Julia Nunnally Duncan, Author of “A Place That Was Home”
- Allen Mendenhall Interviews Julie E. Justicz, Author of “Degrees of Difficulty”
- Allen Mendenhall Interviews Karen White
- Allen Mendenhall Interviews Katherine Clark, Author of The Harvard Bride and The Ex-Suicide
- Allen Mendenhall Interviews Kathleen M. Rodgers, Author of “The Flying Cutterbucks”
- Allen Mendenhall Interviews Kimmery Martin, Author of “The Queen of Hearts”
- Allen Mendenhall Interviews Lara Bernhardt, Author of “The Haunting of Crescent Hotel”
- Allen Mendenhall Interviews Lauren Clark
- Allen Mendenhall Interviews Layton Green, Author of “A Shattered Lens”
- Allen Mendenhall Interviews Lee Zacharias, Author of “Across the Great Lake”
- Allen Mendenhall Interviews Lindsay Parnell, Author of Dogwood
- Allen Mendenhall Interviews Lorna Hollifield, Author of “Tobacco Sun”
- Allen Mendenhall Interviews M. Maitland DeLand, Author of “Nashville Mercy”
- Allen Mendenhall Interviews Marjorie Herrera Lewis, Author of “When the Men Were Gone”
- Allen Mendenhall Interviews Mark Schimmoeller, Author of “Slowspoke”
- Allen Mendenhall Interviews Melissa Fischer, Author of “The Advocacy”
- Allen Mendenhall Interviews Michel Stone, Author of “Border Child”
- Allen Mendenhall Interviews Mike Burrell, Author of “The Land of Grace”
- Allen Mendenhall Interviews Mike Nemeth, Author of “The Undiscovered Country”
- Allen Mendenhall Interviews Patrick A. Howell, Author of “Yes, We Be”
- Allen Mendenhall Interviews Richelle Putnam, Author of The Inspiring Life of Eudora Welty
- Allen Mendenhall Interviews Robert J. Ernst, author of “The Inside War”
- Allen Mendenhall Interviews Roger Johns, Author of “River of Secrets”
- Allen Mendenhall Interviews Russell Scott, Author of The Hard Times
- Allen Mendenhall Interviews Shuly Cawood, Author of “The Going and Goodbye”
- Allen Mendenhall Interviews Stephen Roth, Author of “A Plot for Pridemore”
- Allen Mendenhall Interviews Steve Wiegenstein, Author of “The Language of Trees”
- Allen Mendenhall Interviews Susan Cushman, Author of “Pilgrim Interrupted”
- Allen Mendenhall Interviews Susan Cushman, Editor of “Southern Writers on Writing”
- Allen Mendenhall Interviews Tim Poland, Author of Yellow Stonefly
- Allen Mendenhall Interviews Tom Turner, Author of “Palm Beach Nasty”
- Allen Mendenhall Interviews Walt Gragg, Author of “The Chosen One”
- Allen Mendenhall Interviews Wendy Wax, Author of “Best Beach Ever”
- Allen Mendenhall Interviews William Bernhardt
- Amy Susan Wilson Interviews Karetta Hubbard and Molly Tinsley, Co-authors of the Novel “Satan’s Chamber”
- Amy Susan Wilson Interviews Lara Bernhardt, Author of “Shadow of the Taj”
- Amy Susan Wilson Interviews Minton Sparks, Singer-Songwriter and Poet
- Amy Susan Wilson Interviews Traci L. Slatton
- Amy Susan Wilson Interviews William Bernhardt
- Amy Susan Wilson Interviews William Bernhardt, Author of “The Ocean’s Edge”
- An Interview with James Nolan
- Author Anna Lillios Discusses Crossing the Creek: The Literary Friendship of Zora Neale Hurston and Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
- Author B. Wayne Quist Discusses God’s Angry Man
- Betsy Reeder interviews Culley Holderfield, author of “Hemlock Hollow”
- BettyJoyce Nash interviews Gerry Wilson, author of “That Pinson Girl”
- Bill Lavender Interviews Moira Crone about her Book “The Not Yet”
- Bradley Sides Interviews Jen Fawkes, author of Daughters of Chaos
- Bradley Sides interviews Shaun Hamill, author of “The Dissonance”
- Cheryl Pallant Interviews Lenore H. Gay, Author of “Other Fires”
- Claire Hamner Matturo interviews John Davis Jr., Author of “The Places That Hold”
- Claire Hamner Matturro interviews author John Yearwood
- Claire Hamner Matturro Interviews Carolyn Haines, Author of “Book of the Beloved”
- Claire Hamner Matturro Interviews Celeste Fletcher McHale, Author of “The Secret to Hummingbird Cake”
- Claire Hamner Matturro Interviews Jeff Hardin, Author of “Watermark: Poems”
- Claire Hamner Matturro interviews Julie E. Bloemeke and Dustin Brookshire Editors of “Let Me Say This, A Dolly Parton Anthology”
- Claire Hamner Matturro Interviews Lisa Patton, Author of “Rush”
- Claire Hamner Matturro interviews Mary Anna Evans, author of The Physicists’ Daughter
- Claire Hamner Matturro Interviews Michael David Blanchard
- Claire Hamner Matturro interviews mystery authors Rebecca Barrett and Susan Tanner
- Claire Hamner Matturro interviews poet Lola Haskins
- Claire Hamner Matturro interviews poet Thomas Rabbitt
- Claire Hamner Matturro Interviews Robert Bailey, Author of “Between Black and White”
- Claire Hamner Matturro interviews Sarah Bewley, author of “Burning Eden”
- Claire Hamner Matturro interviews Susan Y. Tanner, Author of “A Whisper of Trouble”
- Claire Hamner Matturro reviews “No Names to Be Given” and interviews the author Julia Brewer Daily
- Claire Matturro Interviews Dennis “Mitch” Maley
- David Huddle Interviews Julia Nunnally Duncan, Author of “A Part of Me”
- David Salvage Interviews Poet Celia Bland
- Dawn Major interviews Anjali Enjeti, Author of “Southbound”
- Dawn Major Interviews Ann Hite
- Dawn Major interviews Chika Unigwe, author of “The Middle Daughter”
- Dawn Major interviews Editor and Contributors of All night, All Day Anthology
- Dawn Major interviews Gregory Ariail, author of “The Gospel of Rot”
- Dawn Major interviews J. Michael White about William Gay’s “Fugitives of the Heart”
- Dawn Major interviews Janisse Ray, author of “The Woods of Fannin County”
- Dawn Major interviews Jeffrey D. Lofton, author of “Red Clay Suzie”
- Dawn Major interviews Kim Woods Miller about “The Woods of Fannin County”
- Dawn Major interviews Mary Ellen Thompson
- Dawn Major interviews Michelle Dotter, editor-in-chief of Dzanc Books
- Dawn Major interviews Raymond L. Atkins, A Southern Bard
- Dawn Major interviews Robert Gwaltney
- Dawn Major interviews Robert Gwaltney, Author of “The Cicada Tree”
- Dawn Major interviews Scott Gould
- Denise Tolan Interviews Kat Meads, Author of “In This Season of Rage and Melancholy Such Irrevocable Acts as These”
- Donna Meredith interview Jennifer Moorhead, author of “Broken Bayou”
- Donna Meredith Interviews Allen Mendenhall, Editor of “Writers on Writing”
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