
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
Arts & Culture
A new book—and a new oral history project—highlight the rural women whose stories continue to shape Appalachia
Arts & Culture
The new Andalusia Interpretive Center offers a closer look at the author’s life and inspirations
Arts & Culture
Hosting tips—and recipes—from a North Carolinian who has made Italian beauty a lifetime love
Books
Three new collections propel Southern verse forward
Arts & Culture
Hit order (and preorder) for these two dozen new and forthcoming books that G&G editors and contributors are buzzing about
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