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Dawn Major reviews “The Best of the Shortest: a Southern Writers Reading Reunion”

November 19, 2024 by Dawn Major Leave a Comment

Introduction: A year ago, on the weekend before Thanksgiving I travelled from Atlanta to Fairhope with a fellow author and friend, John Williams, to attend the first (and as I’ve been told) the last Southern Writers Reading Reunion. The Best of the Shortest: a Southern Writers Reading Reunion anthology was going to be introduced and […]

Filed Under: Book Reviews, Essays Tagged With: Cassandra King, David Wright Falade, Dawn Major, Fairhope, James Whorton, Joshilyn Jackson, Jr., Karen Spears Zacharias, Mac Walcott, Michelle Richmond, R.P. Saffire, Rick Bragg, Robert St. John, Ron Rash, Southern Writers Reading Reunion, Suzanne Hudson, Suzanne Kingbury, The Best of the Shortest, Tom Franklin, William Gay

“Turning the page: Same South, new voice?” essay by Lauren K. Denton

March 30, 2017 by Lauren Denton Leave a Comment

Essay by Lauren K. Denton Writers come from everywhere, yet it seems the South produces them at a higher rate than usual. Here, we tell stories—those we make up and others that have been passed down through generations. Maybe it’s easier—or more necessary—to tell stories down South, to put fictional lives on paper to make […]

Filed Under: Essays Tagged With: A Time to Kill, Adriana Trigiani, Alabama, Barbara Kingsolver, Beth Hoffman, Big Stone Gap, Cold Sassy Tree, Colson Whitehead, Crooked Letter Crooked Letter, Fannie Flagg, Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Café, Greg Iles, Harper Lee, Kathryn Stockett, Kaye Gibbons, Lauren K. Denton, Lee Smith, Lost Lake, Nanci Kincaid, Natchez Burning, ohn Grisham, Olive Ann Burns, Pat Conroy, Rebecca Wells, Same South New Voice, Sarah Addison Allen, Saving CeeCee Honeycutt, Southern Literature, Sue Monk Kidd, The Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood, The Help, The Hideaway, The Secret Life of Bees, The Underground Railroad, To Kill a Mockingbird, Tom Franklin

March Read of the Month Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter by Tom Franklin

March 2, 2011 by Julie Cantrell 1 Comment

Click to Buy Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter by Tom Franklin has been met with a steady stream of critical praise since hitting shelves in October, 2010. No stranger to the world of literary acclaim, Franklin has been acknowledged as an Edgar Award recipient and was selected as the John and Renee Grisham Writer-in-Residence at the […]

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Smonk by Tom Franklin

May 5, 2009 by Craig Price 2 Comments

The first four chapters of Smonk surely rank among the most grotesque, savage and compelling fiction ever written. Using Alabama in the early 1900s as his setting, Tom Franklin has created two despicably fascinating characters, E.O. Smonk and Evavangeline, for whom violent and creative self-preservation are as natural as breathing. These two travel along separate […]

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