An interview with Julie Liddell Whitehead, author of “Hurricane Baby: Stories.”
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All articles filed in Katharine Armbrester
Katharine Armbrester graduated from the MFA creative writing program at the Mississippi University for Women in 2022. She is a devotee of Flannery O’Connor and Margaret Atwood and intends to be an equally disconcerting playwright—she thinks Alabama needs one. Katharine has been recently published in the Lucky Jefferson literary journal, the Birmingham Arts Journal, and the supernatural Twilight Zone-inspired anthology, Step Into the Fifth Dimension.
Performative “Southern Ladyhood” in “The Steps We Take”
An interview with journalist and author Ellen Ann Fentress.
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Grief, Love, and Doubt in “One Wild Word Away”
A review of Geffrey Davis’ third poetry collection, “One Wild Word Away.”
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Poet Rodney Jones Goes Home Again in “Alabama: Poems”
“The shame of provenance is not genetic. It is installed like electricity.”
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A Young Man and Three Snakes Go AWOL in St. Augustine
A review of Ginger Pinholster’s second novel, “Snakes of St. Augustine.”
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Vivid Emotional Texture in “Lo”
A review of Melissa Crowe’s poetry collection, “Lo,” winner of the Iowa Poetry Prize.
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Oranges, Tradition, and Survival In “Through the Groves”
Anne Hull’s memoir, “Through the Groves,” is evocative and haunting.
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“The Auburn Conference” Delivers Notes of Hopefulness for Our Democracy
Author Tom Piazza explores politics in literature as debated by literary greats at a fictional literary conference following the Civil War.
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“Black Chameleon”: Memoir and Mythology
“Black Chameleon: Memory, Womanhood, and Myth” is a bold and innovative memoir by Deborah D.E.E.P. Mouton.
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Rediscovering Zora Neale Hurston: Author and Anthropologist
In a new nonfiction text, Jennifer L. Freeman Marshall offers a “deep, intensive, and knowledgeable lens through which to view Hurston’s legacy.”
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