
September Reading List
New titles out this month include a pile of cookbooks, a surprising garden read, luscious design tomes, and one whiskey book that just might stir up some folks
Arts & Culture
Start 2019 with notable debut novels, stories about tough women, meditations on nature, and a touching memoir about a Southern-fried life
What We're Reading
The Southerner's Handbook
Five essential Southern books
Books
Beyond The Yearling, a new biography unearths the real Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
Arts & Culture
In a year unlike any other, a writer discovers a hidden trove of his father’s photographs—and unearths a vintage view of New Orleans
Arts & Culture
The Virginia native’s stunning new collection deftly wrestles with history and truth
Books
The Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat star on her upcoming chat with Alabama legends, the wisdom of grandmothers, and why cornbread is so intimidating
Books
No matter where you’re spending your leisure time these days, there’s a new book to delight
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