It’s time for the last interview of the 2026 Southern Summer Book Club! Listen to Bradley Sides and Spencer K.M. Brown discuss his new short story collection, “Slow Fire.”
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Bradley Sides is the author of two short story collections, Those Fantastic Lives and Crocodile Tears Didn't Cause the Flood, a 2024 Book of the Year finalist at Southern Literary Review. His fiction has been featured on LeVar Burton Reads, and his reviews, interviews, and essays appear at Chapter 16, Electric Literature, The Rumpus, Southern Review of Books, and elsewhere. He lives with his wife in Madison, Alabama, where, on most days, he can be found teaching writing and literature at Calhoun Community College. His next book, The Volcano Keeper, will release in October 2026 from Regal House Publishing.
The Southern Summer Book Club: August
The third installment of our Southern Summer Book Club features Spencer K.M. Brown’s “Slow Fire.”
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The Southern Summer Book Club: Tommy Hays
Check out the second installment of the 2026 Southern Summer Book Club with Bradley Sides and Tommy Hays!
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The Southern Summer Book Club: July
Part two of The Southern Summer Book Club with Bradley Sides focusing on “The Marriage Bed” by Tommy Hays.
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The Southern Summer Book Club: Aimee Nezhukumatathil
Check out the first video interview in our 2026 Southern Summer Book Club with Bradley Sides and Aimee Nezhukumatathil!
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2026 Southern Summer Book Club Kickoff
Join us for the first book of our Southern Summer Book Club, the poetry collection “Night Owl” by Aimee Nezukumatathil.
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The 2026 Southern Summer Book Club
Join this year’s Southern Summer Book Club!
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Dan Leach Explores Y2K Apocalyptic Sincerity in “Junah at the End of the World”
“More than anything, I just wanted to show that, when you think the world is ending, you try to save the ones you love, and you save them with the language that has gained purchase in your mind. The best we can be to each other is sincere.”
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The Southern Summer Book Club: “Junah at the End of the World”
The final installment of The Southern Summer Book Club with Bradley Sides focusing on Dan Leach’s novle, “Junah at the End of the World.”
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Neighbors Hold Unusual Burials in “The Curious Calling of Leonard Bush”
Regardless of whether one might know Gilmore’s rural world intimately or not, “The Curious Calling of Leonard Bush” is an easy book to feel a kinship with because of its warmth — full of love, hope, kindness, and community.
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