Reviewed by Chris Timmons Normally, it is appropriate to take the squeamish position when reading about someone’s private life—the invasion of personal space being a violation of personal dignity. But when someone offers a memoir, what is the squeamish to do? Rather hope that it is not too raw, too confessional. Julie Freed begins her […]
“Naked: Stripped by a Man and Hurricane Katrina,” by Julie Freed
October 27, 2014 by Leave a Comment
“Lookaway, Lookaway,” by Wilton Barnhardt
August 26, 2014 by 1 Comment
Reviewed by Chris Timmons This must be said as a mandatory prefatory statement: Countless novels have been written about the South, it being such a fertile topic, yet Wilton Barnhardt’s delightful novel Lookaway, Lookaway may top them all. Barnhardt’s novel has it all: an expansive social view of the New South, frequently outrageous and supremely […]
“Remembering Medgar Evers,” by Minrose Gwin
August 14, 2013 by Leave a Comment
Reviewed by Chris Timmons Medgar Evers should be of interest to anyone who has examined the racial history of the United States, and of the South. It’s too bad he is now near-forgotten. Undoubtedly, general American forgetfulness has much to do with it; as far as history goes, Americans do not have much memory. Nor […]
Southern Literary Review Honors Medgar Evers
August 4, 2013 by Leave a Comment
This month, Southern Literary Review honors Medgar Evers, the African-American Civil Rights leader from Mississippi who was murdered in 1963. Our Read of the Month, reviewed by William Aarnes of Furman University, is Turn Me Loose: The Unghosting of Medgar Evers (University of Georgia Press, 2013), a collection of poems by Frank X. Walker. That review will be followed […]
Chris Timmons
August 4, 2013 by Leave a Comment
Chris Timmons is a freelance newspaper writer who lives in Tallahassee, Florida. He has written for newspapers such as the Tallahassee Democrat, Orlando Sentinel, and others. He has no formal higher education.