Michael Ian Black makes the case for a new masculinity in A Better Man
…wear the boxiest suit and tie every day and still understand that you’re playing a role to a certain extent, because all of us are, all day and every day….
A new memoir by Lawrence Wells pulls back the curtain on a Southern literary community
…final words on the Faulkner family legacy in an autobiography, Every Day by the Sun. Wells observes, “To those born without it genius can be a forbidding heritage.” But Dean’s…
In M.O. Walsh’s endearing new novel, a strange machine disrupts life in a small Southern town
…is married to Douglas, a high school history teacher. They are a perfectly ordinary, generally happy couple approaching 40 with a small assortment of vague regrets. He wants to learn…
After three decades in children’s books, acclaimed author-illustrator David Wiesner is still eager to innovate
…at a book festival nearly 30 years ago, as a fledgling artist who had just released a book titled Tuesday, was in Nashville at the Southern Festival of Books. Shortly…
You Want More spans the career of one of the South’s most beloved storytellers
…a cast of what Sherwood Anderson and Flannery O’Connor called “grotesques”: misshapen people with wonderfully alliterative names like Mack Morris Murray, Libby Belcher, Paula Purgason, Mal Morris, and Hellbent Heidi…
Ayad Akhtar creates a powerful literary assemblage in Homeland Elegies
…of preserving what little reliability I may still possess as narrator of these songs and stories; I have to own it; this brand of crazy is fully baked into me.”…
