Literary Friday
Summer reading & Mary Kay Andrews' Breeze Inn. An upcoming Twitter chat on John Kennedy Toole. Inside the App with Zora Neale Hurston. Honorable Mentions. And Recommended Reading & a giveaway...
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Summer read giveaway! A special feature on literary sites in San Francisco. Literary news, including Sotheby's auction of rare John Kennedy Toole items. An author smackdown between Richard Wright and...
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Literary bands. The release of new summer reads. Our next Twitter chat. Book giveaways. (Un)required reading, including 100 of the best first lines from novels. Remembering William Faulkner in literary...
View ArticleBooks to Read During a Hurricane
As Tropical Storm Isaac, expected to be a hurricane later today, approaches the Deep South, we think it's important to have a few good books on hand. Of course you'll need candles or flashlights to...
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Flannery O'Connor finally speaks, direct from Lafayette. What we're reading. The best horror stories and a sensory visit to the Eudora Welty House in Literary News. Zora Neale Hurston on fashion in...
View ArticleZora! 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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Chatting with Attica Locke. Edgar Allan Poe's birthday. Libraries, love affairs and literary puns in Literary News. Ernest Gaines, Poe and Zora Neale Hurston in Literary Events. And a horror story in...
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Dreaming and chatting with Amy Hill Hearth. David Fincher, Richard Blanco, Kevin Bacon and 'Buckwild' in Literary News. Pics from Girlfriend Weekend, Zora and an antiquarian book fair in Literary...
View ArticleAlice Walker Through the Years
A decade-dent birthday tribute to an American author, poet and activist.
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Summer Reading Preview. The Yazoo Library Association turns 175. Creative Nonfiction's Southern Sin issue, the first e-book Big Read in Alabama, a visit to the birthplace of Zora Neale Hurston and...
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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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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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