Editor's Note
Two regional literary journals are open for special submissions in the weeks ahead, including The Pinch, which is accepting entries for The Page Prize in Nonfiction through January 31. Submissions for The Pinch’s fiction and poetry prizes will open on February and March, respectively. Callaloo seeks submissions for its 50th anniversary “Southern Voices” edition through February 14. And poets with a full-length unpublished collection can submit it for the Vanderbilt University Literary Prize through March 15.
Today at Chapter 16, Liz Garrigan reviews Boss Brooks by Kathy Bingham Turner and Leon Alligood. The book tells the true tale of a husband and father who faked his own death in 1930s Saltillo, Tennessee. Liz calls it “a decidedly untidy Southern story that is both sensational … and quietly devastating.” Edd Hurt reviews What Do You Do When You’re Lonesome, Jonathan Bernstein’s account of the musical career and short, troubled life of Justin Townes Earle. We round out this week’s offerings with Aram Goudsouzian’s interview with Roger Kreuz about his timely book Strikingly Similar: Plagiarism and Appropriation from Chaucer to Chatbots.
News Roundup
- Sundress Academy for the Arts is accepting summer residency applications.
- David George Haskell’s How Flowers Made Our World received a starred review from Publishers Weekly.
- Saeed Jones was interviewed for The Rumpus.
- A poem by Patricia Spears Jones was published at Literary Hub.
- Marcus Wicker’s essay “A Bluff City Blues” was a weekly pick at Longreads.
