The inaugural issue of Red Truck Review: A Journal of American Southern Literature and Culture ran this week and featured this interview and these poems by managing editor Allen Mendenhall. The interview begins with questions about Southern Literary Review and discusses Allen’s recently published book, Literature and Liberty. Red Truck Review is edited by SLR contributor Amy Susan […]
Allen Mendenhall Interviews Jeff High, Author of “More Things in Heaven and Earth”
January 1, 2014 by 1 Comment
AM: Thank you for doing this interview, Jeff, and let me just say that I enjoyed your novel, which represents the best of literary fiction—Southern style. I’d like to jump right into the interview the way you jumped right into the opening scene of the book, the scene with the Code Blue and the seemingly supernatural […]
Allen Mendenhall Interviews David Bradley
October 23, 2013 by Leave a Comment
AM: Thanks for doing this interview on the occasion of the ebook release of your 1981 novel, The Chaneysville Incident. It’s been 32 years since the novel was first published. Does it speak differently to today’s audience than it did upon its initial release? Thanks for the opportunity. No writer really knows what a book, […]
Allen Mendenhall Interviews Jessica Dotta
September 25, 2013 by 1 Comment
Congratulations on your forthcoming trilogy, Jessica, and thanks for talking about it with me. Just because your books are set in England doesn’t mean you’re not a Southern author, right? Why don’t we begin with some publicity: tell us about your debut novel—and the whole trilogy for that matter. Thank you so much, Allen! I […]
Allen Mendenhall Interviews Karen White
June 12, 2013 by Leave a Comment
AM: Thank you so much, Karen, for taking time out of your busy schedule to do this interview with Southern Literary Review. We’re excited about the release of your new book, The Time Between. You’ve said that this book might be your favorite so far. Why is that? KW: I think that with each book […]
March Read of the Month: “The Books that Mattered,” by Frye Gaillard
March 27, 2013 by Leave a Comment
Reviewed by Allen Mendenhall “My first encounters with books were disappointing.” That’s a curious opening line for a memoir about reading inspirational books, but an apt one, too, because Frye Gaillard anticipates right away how he will treat reading: not as an activity undertaken in isolation or as an exercise liberating readers from the quotidian […]