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Heartlands
Four debut authors—Josh Weil, Skip Horack, Holly Goddard Jones, and Amy Greene—paint varied pictures of the South they know.In Moss Bluff, Louisiana, Mr. Silva, my hometown’s barber, operated a snow...
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A World Almost Rotten: The Fiction Of William Gay
The great Southern novelist and story writer William Gay died at his home in Hohenwald, Tennessee, on February 23rd of this year, at the age of 70. An intensely private man who valued his reclusion and...
View ArticleWhat We Talk About When We Talk About the American South
The latest issue of Guernica is out, and it’s a doozy. The special issue—the first of 4 such issues funded by a Kickstarter campaign—takes on the American South. Features include novelist Kiese Laymon...
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The Rumpus Interview with Thomas H. McNeely
In Thomas H. McNeely’s breathtaking debut novel, Ghost Horse, Buddy Turner’s family has fragmented around issues of betrayal, class, and race. Father, mother, grandmothers on both sides—these adults...
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The Rumpus Interview with Skip Horack
The Other Joseph, Skip Horack’s incredible new novel, tells the story of a lonely felon and offshore oil rig worker, Roy Joseph, who—years after the death of his parents and the disappearance of his...
View ArticleA Southern Northerner
Through the South, I tried to make sense of what seemed similarly wrong with the North.Over at BuzzFeed Books, James Hannaham explains why he decided to be a “Southern writer” despite his New York...
View ArticleTruly, Zero
To write a book like Mislaid, you have to simultaneously be aggressively assured of your own cultural experience and have, truly, zero fucks to give.VICE talks to Nell Zink about process, practice, and...
View ArticleThe Gods of Southern Gothic
At the Guardian, author M.O. Walsh tries to account for the global popularity of southern gothic literature. While he attributes much of southern gothic literature’s success to a tradition of oral...
View ArticleA Classroom of Atticus F., G., and H.
It has been a bad summer for the iconic characters of Southern literature.Over at the Paris Review, Sadie Stein takes a look at the unfortunate facts: Atticus was kind of a racist, and Atticus is the...
View ArticleRe-Rethinking Harper Lee
At Lit Hub, Kate Jenkins discusses Southern literature’s clumsy history in dealing with race, and theorizes that, in light of Go Set A Watchman, Harper Lee may have actually been much more ahead of her...
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No-Man’s Land: A Conversation with Angela Mitchell
Angela Mitchell and I met in the summer of 2016 at the Sewanee Writer’s Conference, having been connected via email by a mutual friend. We set up a time to meet and had the kind of intense conversation...
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Praise the Bottom: A Conversation with Malcolm Tariq
Of all the scholars I know, Malcolm Tariq is both one of the smartest and the one most likely to post risqué Snapchat stories on a Sunday morning. A native of Savannah, Georgia, Tariq moved north in...
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