South Carolina writer George Singleton’s new short story collection Wounded Boarders (Dzanc Books 2026) introduces us to a motley crew of distinctly Southern characters. Eclectic, vulnerable, and often not entirely likable, they find themselves working unusual and sporadic jobs, in strange and sometimes absurd settings, and dealing with equally unusual interlocutors. Opening story “Horace Poor, […]
Nonfiction Books of Note for December: “Conversations with Jimmy Carter” and George Singleton’s “Asides”
December 19, 2023 by Leave a Comment
“Conversations with Jimmy Carter,” editor Tom Head Conversations with Jimmy Carter, (University of Mississippi Press, 2023) is a collection of ten interviews that reaffirm what we already know about the man. He walks the walk, not just talks the talk. As he tells Bill Moyers in the first interview, “I feel like I have one […]
November Read of the Month: “The Curious Lives of Nonprofit Martyrs: Stories” by George Singleton
November 1, 2023 by 1 Comment
There are unwritten rules one must at least consider when attempting to mention an author’s place among the masters of the Southern literary canon. One of those is to include no less than two quotes from William Faulkner. So, let us begin. “A writer needs three things, experience, observation, and imagination, any two of which, […]