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A Review of Yuval Taylor’s ‘Zora and Langston’
And they were drawn to each other, despite—or perhaps because of—their differences.” – Chapter 1 Yuval Taylor’s Zora and Langston: A Story of Friendship And Betrayal tells the story of one of the most...
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Zora! Festival Coming Up
Each January, Zora Neale Hurston’s hometown of Eatonville, Florida, remembers its native writer at the Zora! Festival. It’s an appropriate time, as Hurston’s birthday is January 7, and she died on...
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Literary Friday
Interview & Twitter Chat With Attica Locke Today, from 1-2 CST, we’ll be chatting with author Attica Locke on Twitter about her new book “The Cutting Season.” One of our Fall/Winter Reading List...
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Literary Friday
Dreaming & Chatting With Amy Hill Hearth This afternoon, from 1-2 CST (2-3 EST), we’ll be chatting with author Amy Hill Hearth about her new book “Miss Dreamsville and the Collier County Women’s...
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Alice Walker Through the Years
A decade-dent birthday tribute to an American author, poet and activist. By Rebecca Lynn Aulph In Eatonton, Georgia, on February 9, 1944, two sharecroppers living under the laws of the Jim Crow South...
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Literary Friday, Edition 57
Last week, we took Literary Friday on the road to Milledgeville, Georgia, the home of writer Flannery O’Connor. Read our recap of the trip here and see video of one of O’Connor’s peacocks giving us a...
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Molded Mulatto Rice
Plain ‘Mulatto rice’ is the name of the dish Pheoby brings Janie in the opening of Zora Neale Hurston’s American masterpiece Their Eyes Were Watching God. Unfortunately no one knows for sure what that...
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Zora and The Hunt for Hoodoo in New Orleans
Harlem Renaissance author was Gonzo, before it existed. by Christopher Balogh She endured a 69-hour state of no food or water. She had her finger sliced to become a blood brother with a rattlesnake....
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9 Literary Small Town Getaways
Big city life isn’t always what it’s cracked up to be. Southerners know better than most that nothing makes for a good story quite like small town life and its cast of characters. These nine small...
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A Review of Zora Neale Hurston’s ‘Barracoon’
Zora Neal Hurston’s posthumous release tells a complicated story of a life rife with loss and injustice, though it never loses track of the hope inherent in the present. Barracoon is the story of one...
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