It is hard to read Jayne Anne Phillip’s Small Town Girls: A Writer’s Memoir without recalling your childhood phone number, or even those belonging to the families of your neighborhood playmates. So intimately does Phillips lay down the love and yearning...

In her new collection, I’ll Take My Body to Go, Kindall Fredericks takes us on a journey. It is a bodily journey, starting with the relentlessly physical body of a 13-year-old girl — the wisdom and spirituality she achieves will come through that body w...

The raw, tender line between hurtful and healing is where Patrick Strickland writes from in A History of Heartache. The fourteen stories in this collection find the forgotten folks in America (especially in East Texas) to show torment and triumph as the...

The news is horrific, but the sun is shining in Tennessee and I’m spending as much time as I can outside, despite The Great Pollening. I hope you all are taking care of yourselves and learning how to show up for your communities. Grab one of these new Southern releases (ideally some poetry to celebrate National Poetry Month) and settle in for a spring picnic.

Some books are meant to be book club books, and I sincerely believe The End of Romance by Lily Meyer should be on the list for your next book club pick. This is a polarizing book. Some are going to love the philosophical, anti-romance of it all. They wi...