Watch the author’s conversation at the G&G offices
Welcome to
G&G Reads
Welcome to
G&G Reads
Our book club highlights the best of the South’s new books with exclusive author interviews, opportunities to ask your own questions, and insider conversations about the stories behind the stories.
G&G’s Next Book Club Selection:
A New Novel Tangles with Twain
For its third book, G&G Reads has selected Percival Everett’s James, a reimagining of Mark Twain’s classic Huckleberry Finn from the escaped slave Jim’s perspective. “With James, Everett has mounted a high-stakes, revisionist raid not just on Twain’s imagination but on ours as a nation,” writes G&G contributing editor Jonathan Miles.
“Jim, you may recall, served as the moral center of Twain’s 1884 novel, floating alongside young Huck on a picaresque raft voyage down the Mississippi. In James, he gets moved to the actual center, narrating those familiar events—the getaway to Jackson’s Island, the run-in with the duke and dauphin, etc.—as a ‘man… cognizant of his world, a man who has a family…who has been torn from his family, a man who can read and write, a man who will not let his story be self-related, but self-written.’”
The book is available to order here.
On Thursday, June 6, Everett will appear in conversation with Miles at the G&G offices in Charleston, South Carolina. Tickets are available here.
Members of G&G Reads will be able to submit questions for Everett and get exclusive access to a video of the conversation afterward. Sign up below (it’s free!).
In the meantime, check out Miles’s full review of the book here.
Join the Club
The rules for membership are simple—if you love Southern literature, you’re in. G&G Reads expands on the book coverage you already know and love in the pages of the magazine, highlighting the best of the South’s new books with exclusive author interviews, opportunities to ask your own questions, and insider conversations about the stories behind the stories.
Let us know how we can reach you to share all the details about our new club and upcoming conversations. No purchase is necessary to join the club.
Previous Selections and More Good Reads
-
Arts & Culture
-
G&G READS
The bestselling author also discusses his new book, The Exchange, in a candid G&G Reads conversation
-
Arts & Culture
Where to encounter the latest page-turners and the authors behind them
-
-
Arts & Culture
G&G staff and contributors pick their favorite new novels, bold memoirs, and beach reads, plus a few books to put on preorder
-
Books
Back on tour, a Nashville author discovers that bookshops around the South are writing intriguing new chapters
Reviews from the Magazine
The author’s vivid childhood makes for a captivating look back in her new book
The author of Big Fish reaches hard-wrung reconciliation in a new memoir
Three new collections propel Southern verse forward
For a passionate birder, duck hunting triggers an unexpected lesson
The celebrated author delivers back-to-back knockouts
Beverly Lowry’s Deer Creek Drive revisits a midcentury murder in the Delta
Her new novel traces an incomparable equine down the stretch of history
A new story collection revels in the messiness of life
A compelling new history enshrines past tastemakers
A soul-shaking narrative joins the pantheon of Southern classics
The secrets and scandals behind the writer’s circle of high-profile women
A native son’s story collection conjures the real Crescent City
A new book shares the story of their vision for an Alabama megacity
Unpacking the new titles from Adrian Miller and Rodney Scott
Beyond The Yearling, a new biography unearths the real Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
The Virginia native’s stunning new collection deftly wrestles with history and truth