A review of Burnside Soleil’s debut poetry collection, “Berceuse Parish.”
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I am excited to announce that The Southern Summer Book Club is back for another round, y’all! We hope you’ll join us as we continue to build literary communities throughout the South. Plus, being a part of our book club is a great way to celebrate contemporary Southern lit. And I know we all love…
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A review of Meg Shaffer’s “The Book Witch.”
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Former poet laureate of Mississippi, Beth Ann Fennelly, maven of the micro-memoir, has done it again with “The Irish Goodbye: Micro-Memoirs.”
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An interview with Davis Enloe on his new novel, “Into the Night Woods.”
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Make Sure You Die Screaming by Zee Carlstrom is a delightfully dark thrill ride perfect for a quick weekend read. The “thriller” label is well-earned as Carlstrom’s narrator drags the reader along on a full-fledged crash out that is orders of magnitude beyond the average burnout response. The narrator claims to have “burned [their] entire…
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A review of Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Jayne Anne Phillip’s new memoir, “Small Town Girls.”
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Girlhood is cracked open to glisten in Kindall Fredericks’ electrifying new collection, “I’ll Take My Body to Go”
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Bleak, clear-eyed, abrasive, and thoughtful stories about the forgotten folks of East Texas.
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Check out this roundup of some of the best Southern releases of April 2026.
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Some books are meant to be book club books, and I sincerely believe The End of Romance by Lily Meyer should be on the list for your next book club pick. This is a polarizing book. Some are going to love the philosophical, anti-romance of it all. They will eat up the cerebrally prone main…
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