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Why Foxfire Still Resonates

A new book—and a new oral history project—highlight the rural women whose stories continue to shape Appalachia

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Poetry in Motion: Three New Southern Collections

Three new collections propel Southern verse forward

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The Best New Books for Southerners in 2023

Hit order (and preorder) for these two dozen new and forthcoming books that G&G editors and contributors are buzzing about

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Novelist David Joy’s Favorite Books This Year

The North Carolina author—and insatiable reader—on the novels, memoirs, poetry, and stories he couldn’t put down

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The Best Southern Books of 2022

The cookbooks, novels, and nonfiction books that G&G editors and contributors loved most this year

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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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A Groundbreaking Basketball Team Gets Its Due

A chat with Southern author and sports historian Andrew Maraniss about his latest book, Inaugural Ballers

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A Southern Survey with John Grisham

The mega-best-selling author dishes on his favorite cookbooks, the Mississippi haunt that started it all, and why he won’t describe his new book in one sentence

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The Return of Cormac McCarthy

The celebrated author delivers back-to-back knockouts

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A Serving of New Cookbooks

Our favorite fresh cookbooks, along with new recipes for appetizers, mains, and sweets

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Book Events for Every Reader

Meet your favorite authors, stock up on gifts, and dive deeper into the wonderful world of Southern literature

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G&G’s Big Fall Reading List

G&G editors and contributors share what books to cozy up with this autumn

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Nicholas Sparks on His New Book, Southern Stereotypes, and His Favorite Spots in Florida and North Carolina

“The biggest thing that people get wrong about the South is that they think all Southern accents are the same”

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Frances Mayes Finds the Meaning of Home

In her lovely new book, the best-selling author of Under the Tuscan Sun welcomes readers into both her Southern and Italian estates

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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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A New Chapter for Bookshops

Back on tour, a Nashville author discovers that bookshops around the South are writing intriguing new chapters

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G&G’s Summer Reading List

Editors, contributors, and Southern booksellers share the new novels, fresh nonfiction, and even a couple of cookbooks at the top of their book stacks

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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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The Author James Lee Burke Gets Personal

In his timely new novel, the eighty-five-year-old literary titan shares more of himself than ever before

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A Kentucky Writer Captures the Stuff of Life

A new story collection revels in the messiness of life