In both her life and her narrow but vivid body of work, Carson McCullers claimed a secure (albeit marginal) perch in American literature’s Southern renaissance Gothic wing. More so than with her kinswomen Flannery O’Connor and Eudora... Read More

Any backpacker who’s felt superior to the passengers filing off the tour bus in front of the Eiffel Tower, and every vacationer who has fretfully sought to experience the “real” culture of a foreign country from the comfort of a... Read More

After fighting in heavy combat in Peleliu and Okinawa during WWII, Fifth Division Marine Sledge was transferred to China to serve out the rest of his duty. In this book, the author fleshes out this time of experience, exploration, and... Read More

The author originated a form he called SLABS, Standard Length and Breadth sonnets, poems with fourteen lines, each line constructed of fourteen characters. It is a form democratic in the ease with which readers might understand its... Read More

“The South is a special place. Even now, after the turn of a new century and the dawn of a new millennium, the South is ever present in matters of American politics, American culture, and American life,” writes the editor in his... Read More

Arthur Alexander may not be a household name, but it should be. Like many early African-American pioneers of popular music in the 1950s and 1960s he influenced virtually all of the major rock and roll artists of the era. His music, a... Read More

What kept millions of Eastern European Jews from emigrating in the late 1930s, even in 1940 or 1941, while there was still a chance to save their lives? A Thousand Kisses: A Grandmother’s Holocaust Letters offers some insights and... Read More