“You spend your whole life trying to get out of holes.The hole you’re born into…The hole you dig…How in the world do you ever get out?”
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“Red Rose Motel” Reads Like a Love Letter to Teachers
Susan Beckham Zurenda draws from decades of teaching experience to craft compelling characters in her second novel.
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Raylan’s Back
A review of the FX limited series, “Justified: City Primeval.”
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“Live Life Faithful to Who You Think You Are:” Ruth J. Simmons on Becoming Someone She Wasn’t Supposed to Be
The first Black president of an Ivy League school shares her experience of loss, struggle and growing up in the segregated South in her memoir “Up Home: One Girl’s Journey.”
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Leaving Space for Hope: Elizabeth Hilborn’s “Restoring Eden”
An interview with Elizabeth Hilborn about her new memoir, “Restoring Eden.”
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Surreal Chronicles of History in “The Light at the End of the World”
A review of Siddhartha Deb’s “The Light at the End of the World.”
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Family Secrets and Footnotes in “Happiness Falls”
A review of Angie Kim’s second novel, “Happiness Falls.”
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LaToya Watkins Explores the Sweat, Love, and Lies of Texas in “Holler, Child: Stories”
A masterful and deeply heartful look into the lives of a diverse set of emotionally complicated characters in this short story collection set in Texas.
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“Bet” on Red Clay Suzie, a Novel Rooted in Truth
In this debut, Lofton’s irresistible protagonist is both endearingly naive and surprisingly sophisticated.
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Banned Books in the South
SRB editor Jennette Holzworth recommends banned books that have been significant in her life.
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