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 […]
March Read of the Month: “The Books that Mattered,” by Frye Gaillard
Filed Under: Book Reviews, Read of the Month Tagged With: Albert Murray, Allen Mendenhall, Carson McCullers, Clyde Edgerton, Elie Wiesel, Eudora Welty, Frye Gaillard, Geraldine Brooks, James Baldwin, John Steinbeck, Kurt Vonnegut, Lillian Smith, Mark Twain, Pat Conroy, Richard Wright, Rick Bragg, Robert Penn Warren, Snow Falling on Cedars, The Books that Mattered, The Great Santini, To Kill a Mockingbird, Tom Wolfe
What Southern Titles Inspire Kerry Madden?
In honor of Mother’s Day, SLR contributors are letting you in on their deepest secrets by confessing the names of books by southern female authors that have most influenced their lives. For novelist Kerry Madden, the list is topped with two of Lee Smith’s works: Fair and Tender Ladies as well as Oral History. Click to Buy Click to Buy […]
Filed Under: General Tagged With: Carson McCullers, Female Authors, Flannery O'Connor, Kerry Madden, Lee Smith, Southern Authors