Jonathan Miles
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Poetry in Motion: Three New Southern Collections
Three new collections propel Southern verse forward
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A Bird-Watcher’s Epiphanies in the Blind
For a passionate birder, duck hunting triggers an unexpected lesson
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Keeping Up with the Pack
Why settle for one dog when you can have five?
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The Return of Cormac McCarthy
The celebrated author delivers back-to-back knockouts
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Richard Powers’s Wild Voice
The novelist’s Great Smoky Mountains immersion laid the groundwork for his epic Pulitzer-winning tree novel. It also sparked a love affair between man and place that is upending Powers’s life and work
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Going Deep on a Mysterious Mississippi Matricide
Beverly Lowry’s Deer Creek Drive revisits a midcentury murder in the Delta
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Geraldine Brooks Rides a Horse for the Ages
Her new novel traces an incomparable equine down the stretch of history
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A Kentucky Writer Captures the Stuff of Life
A new story collection revels in the messiness of life
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The Chefs the South Forgot
A compelling new history enshrines past tastemakers
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Imani Perry’s Unflinching Travelogue
A soul-shaking narrative joins the pantheon of Southern classics
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Truman Capote’s Notorious Female Friendships
The secrets and scandals behind the writer’s circle of high-profile women
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New Orleans Unfiltered
A native son’s story collection conjures the real Crescent City
In Good Spirits
A Cuba Libre for the Ages
How one writer learned to stop worrying and love the rum and Coke
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Shining a Light on Ford and Edison’s Southern Utopia
A new book shares the story of their vision for an Alabama megacity
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Jon Batiste’s Marvelous Melodicas
The musical renaissance man can trace his life in music with an impressive collection
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Two New Books Exalt the Role of Black Pitmasters
Unpacking the new titles from Adrian Miller and Rodney Scott
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The Queen of Cross Creek
Beyond The Yearling, a new biography unearths the real Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
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Danielle Evans’s Factual Fiction
The Virginia native’s stunning new collection deftly wrestles with history and truth
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An Anthology for Today’s South
A new tome highlights the stories of Southern writers of color
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Eight Late Summer Reads
No matter where you’re spending your leisure time these days, there’s a new book to delight