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The Best Books for (and about) Southerners of 2023
Top cookbooks, novels, and memoirs that explored the story-filled region

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Unspooling Kentucky’s Legacy of Quilts and Quiltmakers
A new book dives deep on generations of women and their artful archive of the state’s history

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The Shape-Shifting Sarah Paulson
There’s no role the Florida native can’t make her own

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A South Carolina Designer’s Colorful Rise
The Columbia Museum of Art celebrates Sergio Hudson’s decade in fashion with a new retrospective

This Land
Cultivating Creativity at a Poet’s Sanctuary
The late Anne Spencer crafted a Virginia home and garden that nurtured other artists—and still does

Arts & Culture
These Vintage, State-Themed Cowboy Boots From Lucchese Are Made for Wowing
Take a peek at the midcentury collection

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A Look Inside First Light, the “Unmistakably Austin” Bookshop in an Old Post Office
A meeting place for good books and good neighbors

Dispatches
Ron Rash’s Ghostly Inspirations
The graveyard perched over the Rash North Carolina farm has long whispered to the writer—he just needed to listen

Home & Garden
For the Love of Cheap Old Houses
In a captivating new book, the duo behind the popular Instagram account set the story straight on small Southern towns, shiplap, and why so many fading homes still have stories to tell

Arts & Culture
Two New Reads that Reckon with Family History
A pair of writers hold the past—and themselves—to account

Travel
Seven Whimsical Southern Sculpture Gardens
Across the South, public art abounds in beautiful settings

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The Junior League of Charleston Marks a Century of Serving—and Preserving—Its Home City
In guidebooks and in cookbooks, the organization has kept one eye on the past and another on the needs of the present

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Adapting the World of Michael Farris Smith
The prolific Oxford, Mississippi, author on his two new movies, cataclysmic weather events, and being labeled Southern gothic

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Six Retro Cartoon Characters Who Were (Probably) Definitely Southern
Remember Wally Gator, Foghorn Leghorn, and these other stars of Saturday morning?

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Barn Again: A Woodworker Reimagines a Family Heirloom
A new dining set with a meaningful past brings loved ones to the table once more

Arts
There’s No Place Like North Carolina’s Land of Oz
All yellow brick roads lead to this charming little theme park in North Carolina

Travel
One Hundred Years of Hank Williams’s Musical Legacy in Montgomery
Hey good lookin’—visitors from all over the world descend on the city for Hank’s hundredth birthday celebration this September

Arts & Culture
The Making of Selma the Musical
Mississippi artists hope to find a Broadway home for the traveling production

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A Guide to the South’s Best Fall Literary Festivals
Where to encounter the latest page-turners and the authors behind them

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The Bold and Generous Spirit of Lee Smith
No one has tapped into Southern truths quite like the Virginia-raised author, whose fifteen novels span Appalachia to the Florida Keys. Just ask the legion of writers who praise Smith for guiding their own stories