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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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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Death and Ice Storms In and Around “Bodock”
Author Robert Busby writes about the making of his new short story collection, “Bodock.”
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Self-Portraits of the South: An Interview with Suzanne Hudson
An interview with Alabama Truman Capote Prize winner Suzanne Henderson about “Deep Water, Deep Horizons” and more.
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Beginnings Aren’t Blank Canvases and neither Are Families in “The Bright Years”
A review of “The Bright Years” by Sarah Damoff.
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The Art of Fulfilling Insatiable Appetites: Lucy Rose’s “The Lamb”
Originally written as a series of interconnected flash fiction pieces, Lucy Rose’s “The Lamb” is a folk horror novel at its sinister heart.
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Atlanta is Haven for Queer Black Culture and “Baptism by Fire” in “Fantasies of Future Things”
The codes of masculinity, gay or straight, play an important role in “Fantasies,” which draws upon moments of historical change to reveal the precarious position of the Black gay male at the turn of the century.
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