Books

This book documents the Crescent City’s surprising role in shaping the entertainment empire

The meticulously crafted world of an American style legend

Go inside the Georgia art and design university’s forty most famous structures around the world

There’s nothing quite like a good dog story

Introducing a new book from Garden & Gun

Brad Thomas Parsons’s book shows how working cats earn their keep at Southern distilleries and breweries

Jesmyn Ward’s latest novel expands the Southern canon

We asked the experts at independent bookstores across the South for the summer reads they’re recommending to book lovers right now

Rick Ellis’s hundreds of cookbooks preserve the South’s history one recipe at a time

A journalist delves into the riveting truth behind a series of mysterious fires in Virginia

It’s been more than fifty years since two Southern icons made one unforgettable song

Green-thumb your way through a slew of garden-inspired reads, from a farm-fresh cookbook to a collection of essays by beloved Southern naturalists

An author and historian shares his reading list for a trip to the Gulf Coast

One of the best stories you’ve never heard about Arnold Palmer

An interview with writer John T. Edge about his new book, The Potlikker Papers

A closer look at contemporary floral design in a new book about farm-to-vase flowers

Eighty thousand miles with the legendary photographer

Traveling eighty thousand miles through forty-eight states, photographer Jack Spencer left no road unexplored

A new book inspires an outdoor adventurer’s guide to “America’s Sea”—from Padre Island to Cedar Key

The musician’s buoyant new biography sings