GULFPORT, Miss. (WLOX) - What is Southern Literature? That was the topic of discussion at the Society for the Study of Southern Literature conference in Gulfport. “How do we talk about Southern ...

William Faulkner casts a wide shadow over the canon of classic Southern literature, but few recall his contemporary, T.S. Stribling, who won a Pulitzer Prize in 1933 for his novel “The Store,” about ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WTVF) — The Southern Festival of Books, one of the oldest literary festivals in the country, returns to the War Memorial Plaza and Nashville Public Library Friday. The event is put ...

Publishing books that “don’t fit into the commercial publishing landscape” might not sound like a successful venture. But for Hub City Press, the 27-year-old regional publisher based in Spartanburg, ...

Award-winning North Carolina writer Randall Kenan, the unapologetically Black, gay Southerner who used all his identities to tell the stories only he could tell, has died. He was 57 and had lived in ...

Having spent much of the past decade making a series of films on the history of modern Southern literature, I was of course interested in Linton Weeks's Nov. 11 Style article, "Gone With the Wind; Has ...

Poetry by contemporary Southern writers was the topic of USC Aiken’s latest “Aiken in the Alley” lecture on Wednesday, Nov. 6. Dr. Tom Mack, distinguished professor emeritus, and Andrew Geyer, ...

Walter Sullivan, 82, an authority on Southern literature who taught 51 years at Vanderbilt University, died of cancer Tuesday at his home in Nashville, university officials announced. Sullivan studied ...

The critically acclaimed but financially struggling Oxford American magazine, a champion of Southern literature and culture, will move to the University of Central Arkansas under an agreement signed ...

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