
The Return of Cormac McCarthy
The celebrated author delivers back-to-back knockouts
Books
G&G editors and contributors share what books to cozy up with this autumn
The Southerner's Handbook
Five essential Southern books
Food & Drink
G&G contributors pick the food books they’re excited to devour this fall
Arts & Culture
A Q&A with the author, who this fall resurrects his first big hit in a new thriller
Arts & Culture
The prolific author talks about setting her true crime novels in Baltimore, claiming her Southern identity, and how the pandemic inspired her latest caper about a prom gone wrong
Books
In a new book, writers pay homage to his words. Read an exclusive excerpt here
Arts & Culture
Where to encounter the latest page-turners and the authors behind them
Southern Authors
With thirty-five novels, two Edgar Awards, and one of the most enduring characters in crime fiction, James Lee Burke is a titan among mystery writers. But maybe we should just call him a writer
How a Memphis novelist’s history of the Civil War made history itself
Carl Hiaasen has spent a lifetime railing against corrupt politicians and the wanton destruction of Florida’s natural riches. Along the way he’s become one of the country’s most successful novelists, not to mention one hell of a fly fisherman
The biggest name in Southern lit didn’t spend his whole life in Mississippi
Gut-busting laughs. Heartache. The North Carolina shore. David Sedaris weaves them all into a new memoir
Counting songbirds and talking about the land with the legendary conservationist, farmer, and writer
As a student, author Wiley Cash discovered the work of the incomparable Louisiana writer Ernest J. Gaines. It was the start of a literary bond that has lasted two decades—and an education in the power of the place you call home
Two Seckatary Hawkins books that guided Harper Lee toward her seminal work
A look over the fence at the reclusive Harper Lee