Reviewed by Ana Reyes Corrine Lamb earns her nickname, “Hush Puppy,” in the opening pages of this young adult novel by giving away her lunch – a sack of hush puppies – to Jamie Armstrong, a poor boy who’s just moved to town. It’s a fitting introduction to her character, as later on, she will […]
Ana Reyes
August 5, 2014 by Leave a Comment
Ana Reyes is an MFA Candidate in creative writing and instructor of composition at Louisiana State University. Publications include fiction and poetry in Gulf Coast, Pear Noir, The New Delta Review and Foliate Oak. Her short stories have been finalists in the Glimmer Train Very Short Fiction Award and the Donald Barthelme Prize for short […]
Allen Mendenhall Interviews Jolina Petersheim
August 4, 2014 by 1 Comment
APM: Thanks for taking the time to talk to Southern Literary Review, Jolina. Your latest novel, The Midwife, follows closely on the heels of The Outcast. Did you expect these books to be the successes they’ve been? All authors dream that their novels will be successful, and I was certainly no exception. Still, I had […]
“Battlegrounds of Memory,” by Clay Lewis
July 31, 2014 by Leave a Comment
Reviewed by Yasser El-Sayed In Battlegrounds of Memory, Clay Lewis traces a rich and conflicted trajectory of loss, pain and redemption over the course of generations. This slim book is a uniquely American story that is narrated with unflinching honesty and infused with such elemental raw emotion that its ultimate achievement lies far beyond a […]
Yasser El-Sayed
July 29, 2014 by Leave a Comment
Yasser El-Sayed has recently published fiction in Natural Bridge, The New Orphic Review, The Marlboro Review, Red Truck Review, and elsewhere. His short stories have been nominated for the Pushcart Prize and Best American Short Stories. Yasser’s prose focuses upon the intersections of Arab and American experience both in the Middle East and the United […]
William Bernhardt
July 15, 2014 by Leave a Comment
William Bernhardt is the author of more than thirty books, including the Ben Kincaid novels, the historical novel Nemesis: The Final Case of Eliot Ness (currently being adapted into a television mini-series), a series of books on fiction writing, and most recently, a book of poetry, The White Bird. In addition, Bernhardt founded the Red […]