The best Southern fiction, nonfiction, and poetry of September 2023.
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“The Beauty of Small Presses Is That They Are Small, Especially in Their Attentions”: an Interview with Han VanderHart of River River Books
An interview with Han VanderHart about their poetry at River River Books.
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Love and Art Collide in “Now is Not the Time to Panic”
A review of “Now is Not the Time to Panic” by Kevin Wilson.
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Risk, Rebellion, and Growth in “Good Women”
Halle Hill’s story collection, “Good Women,” features women on the precipice of change.
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To Rock Bottom and Back: Gabrielle Zevin’s “The Hole We’re In” Soars
“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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