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The annual Thompson Thanksgiving cornucopia includes touchdowns, tall tales, and shrimp remoulade—but can it survive for the next generation?

John T. Edge and Wright Thompson explore the modern intersection of the sport and Southern cuisine

Clinging to memories of my dad became second nature—until a new generation shifted my understanding of the things he had passed down

A Bloody Bull is an even richer spin on a Bloody Mary. Make it batch-style, like one G&G writer’s family, and prepare to bowl over your party guests

Now entering its third season, TrueSouth brings a nuanced taste of the region to TV

Mississippi writers celebrate one of the South’s most beloved bookstores, which opens a new rare book shop this weekend

Gorgeous cookbooks, charming poetry collections, meditations on nature, and more delightful 2024 reading picks from G&G editors and contributors

Dozens of memoirs, novels, and nonfiction books that got us through a year unlike any other

The author’s sublime new novel fathoms the wonder of the sea

The limited-edition fly reel inspired by the iconic bourbon brand and a new book will hit shelves this spring

Halfway through 2019, we’re looking back at the delightful novels, biographies, memoirs, story collections, and other works that have already made this a stellar year in Southern literature

April brings a shower of new reads, including big-league cookbooks, powerful memoirs, and a charming tribute to one funny-man’s best friend

Author Wright Thompson on the magic of traveling to a Mississippi institution

A writer returns to the family farm for a keepsake that reminds him of where he came from—and where he’s going

New novels, nonfiction, cookbooks, forthcoming titles, even some classics—and where these Southerners plan to enjoy reading them

Gosh a’mighty, it’s not hard to find a toddy—or inspiration for the next great Southern novel—in this writerly college town

The Mississippi author Michael Farris Smith shares an imaginative new take on The Great Gatsby, plus the books he’s been reading and the bourbon he’s been drinking

The Virginia native’s stunning new collection deftly wrestles with history and truth

Things to eat, see, and do in the Super Bowl LIV host city

Everything you need to know to master the Run for the Roses

Fifty great things Southerners should see, do, cook, read, and drink—at least once

A skeptic’s look at just what makes a bad dog good

A team of pit masters goes to Memphis in May to answer a burning question: Can great barbecue still win?

As summer beckons, six writers chase the open highway, dropping pins along the way at a Mississippi barbecue joint, backlit Blue Ridge vistas, and a cerveza-soaked border town that practically wrote itself into the ultimate road trip song

Why the least-heralded bar on Biscayne Bay is exactly where you want to be

The decades dissolve in a flicker at Kathryn’s, an old-school Italian joint in the Mississippi Delta