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 | Jan 31, 2018 | Southern Literature
Book Review The Going and Goodbye Shuly Xochitl Cawood Platypus Press 2017, 192 pp., $16 Exploring the Give-and-Take of Romance Finding nonfiction that accurately captures the feeling of events both big and small can prove a challenge; however, The Going and Goodbye...
by cory | Sep 25, 2017 | Southern Literature
The Value of Intelligence in Southern Women’s Wardrobes The airheaded Southern Belle is practically a Jungian Archetype. Long ago, pop culture shrink-wrapped Southern women in tight wholesome packages, saddling them with ideals of propriety and pride in being the...