by cory | Aug 1, 2018 | Southern Literature
Book review Nobody Knows How It Got This Good Amos Jasper Wright IV Livingston Press 2018, 312 pp., $8.95 Amos Jasper Wright’s Nobody Knows How It Got This Good is a collection of short stories woven together in an intricate but rough fashion, a vehicle to examine...
by cory | Jul 18, 2018 | Southern Literature
Book review Florida Lauren Groff Riverhead Books 2018, 288 pp., $27 Lauren Groff’s outstanding new collection of stories, Florida, is so much more than “just” a story collection, and so much more than “just” about Florida. Rather, in ten dazzling stories and a...
by cory | Jul 4, 2018 | Southern Literature
Book review Let’s All Die Happy Erin Adair-Hodges University of Pittsburgh Press 2017, 112 pp., $15.95 The poems in Let’s All Die Happy by Erin Adair-Hodges are consistently and consciously aware of breath, and their process of breathing is often labored and the poems...
by cory | Jun 20, 2018 | Southern Literature
Book review Mourning Dove Firefly Southern Fiction (233 pp.) Forthcoming June 29, 2018, 233 pp., $9.95 Parallel universes exist all around us. One person chucks trash for another to call a treasure. Claire Fullerton’s novel Mourning Dove explores this concept with...
by cory | Jun 6, 2018 | Southern Literature
Book review The Last Ballad Wiley Cash William Morrow 2017, 384 pp., $16.60 Wiley’s Cash’s third novel, The Last Ballad, confirms him as a major voice in contemporary American fiction, and especially among those writers with their eyes on the plight of America’s...
by cory | May 30, 2018 | Southern Literature
Richard Wright: Forgotten Fugitive Poet One of the most favored and eloquent Southern traditions in literature involves human’s relationship to nature. From 1922–1925, the Fugitive Poets exemplified this in their literary magazine, with each member’s unique...
