Exploring the Literary South: 5 Texas Destinations for the Literary Traveler
By Hannah White I grew up spending summers in the Piney Woods of deep East Texas with my late father’s family. Texas was his home…
Tag: Southern Literature
Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings: Cross Creek
Cross Creek belongs to the wind and the rain, to the sun and the seasons, to the cosmic secrecy of seed, and beyond all, to…
The Long Last Ride of John Kennedy Toole
By William Caverlee Biloxi, Mississippi, is only eighty-seven miles from New Orleans, a brief drive up US 90, along the Gulf Coast past Pearlington, Waveland,…
A Visit to Harper Lee’s Monroeville
By Caroline Kerr Taylor It was a blistering hot and muggy August day when I arrived in Monroeville, Alabama. After parking on the town square…
The Southern Vampire Mysteries: How to Survive the Fall without True Blood
by Amanda Festa For the past five years, summer has brought many much-anticipated guilty pleasures. Beach days, BBQs, Sam Adams’ Summer Ale, sun bathing. …
Thomas Wolfe: Look Homeward Angel
In the novel, Look Homeward Angel, Thomas Wolfe described the stone statue of an angel, which stood for years on the porch of his father”s…