In this interview, Kionna Walker LeMalle shares the experience and magic behind her debut novel.
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Food, Ghosts, Trauma, Magic: Three Generations Entwined in “My Mother Cursed My Name”
Set in a small Texas town near the U.S.-Mexico border, this debut magical realism novel follows Olvido, Angustias, and Felicitas as they reunite for Olvido’s funeral.
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The Southern Summer Book Club: “Behind the Waterline”
The first edition of The Southern Summer Book Club with Bradley Sides focusing on Kionna Walker LeMalle’s novel, “Behind the Waterline.”
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Walk A Few Hundred Pages in Someone Else’s Shoes
SRB Editor Jennette Holzworth talks about seven books that offer readers an opportunity to walk in someone else’s shoes.
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A Faustian Bargain That Echoes Through Time: Rickey Fayne’s Bold Southern Debut
A review of Rickey Fayne’s debut novel “The Devil Three”
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“Bingo Bango Boingo:” A Thoughtful Intermeshing of Form and Content
A review of Alan Michael Parker’s latest story collection.
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Books to Celebrate in June 2025
Celebrate Pride by reading one of the queer Southern fiction, nonfiction, and poetry books published in the first half of 2025.
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Liminal Spaces of the Sacred and Profane: Alina Stefanescu’s “My Heresies”
Alina Stefanescu’s new collection of poetry, “My Heresies,” is an entirely new feminist text in its own right. Observant, angry, and questioning, Stefanescu’s poems guide readers through the liminal spaces where the sacred and the profane collide.
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“Sinners:” A Feast for the Eyes and Ears, A Feat of Storytelling
A review of the film “Sinners,” written and directed by Ryan Coogler.
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The Artist Monks in “Art Above Everything”: A Conversation with Stephanie Elizondo Griest
A conversation with Stephanie Elizondo Griest, author of “Art Above Everything.”
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