Novel Approach
South American Gothic: Edward Swift’s The Daughter of the Doctor and the Saint
Skeletons in a Small Town’s Closet
Janis Owens’ powerful new novel American Ghost recalls Lillian Smith’s Strange Fruit, the 1944 classic remembered, in part, for its brave portrayal of lynch...Read More
Faith in a Dead-End Town
Michael Morris’ sweet, sad-eyed new novel, Man in the Blue Moon, recalls great Southern literature: beloved works such as Olive Ann Burns’ Cold Sassy Tree a...Read More
Kambri Crews’ New Memoir Chronicles Childhood With Deaf Parents
Burn Down the Ground, Kambri Crews’ moving new memoir, in part tells the story of her coming of age as the hearing child of deaf parents. Early on, Crews beca...Read More
In Search of – The Great Opportunity’
After reading Michel Stone’s The Iguana Tree, you may never think of The American Dream the same way again. For Hector and Lilia, the protagonists of Stone’...Read More
Afghanistan’s Freedom Writers
In 2009, American novelist and journalist Masha Hamilton founded the Afghan Women’s Writing Project (AWWP), a nonprofit that recently published its first coll...Read More
Is It God or Alzheimer’s?
Faith Bass Darling’s Last Garage Sale is reminiscent of the early works of Larry McMurtry and Edward Swift. Set in a small Texas town on the final day of the ...Read More
Harbury’s Fight for Human Rights
To read Jennifer Harbury’s books is to chart her progress toward becoming one of this nation’s most esteemed agitators. Almost 30 years ago, this Harvard-ed...Read More
An Intimate Chronicle of Dixie
Mary Boykin Chesnut’s A Diary from Dixie is among America’s most morally conflicting literary masterpieces—and now, thanks to her great-great grandniece, ...Read More
A Prophet and a Liar
“Holy Ghost Girl”, a new memoir by Donna M. Johnson, tells the remarkable story of the author’s childhood among the followers of Brother David Ter...Read More